Meaning of neck in English | Powered by Free Dictionary API

noun

• The part of the body connecting the head and the trunk found in humans and some animals.

  Example: Giraffes have long necks.

• The corresponding part in some other anatomical contexts.

• The part of a shirt, dress etc., which fits a person's neck.

• The tapered part of a bottle toward the opening.

• The slender tubelike extension atop an archegonium, through which the sperm swim to reach the egg.

• The extension of any stringed instrument on which a fingerboard is mounted

• A long narrow tract of land projecting from the main body, or a narrow tract connecting two larger tracts.

• A reduction in size near the end of an object, formed by a groove around it.

  Example: a neck forming the journal of a shaft

• The constriction between the root and crown of a tooth.

• The gorgerin of a capital.

• The small part of a gun between the chase and the swell of the muzzle.

• A person's life.

  Example: to risk one's neck; to save someone's neck

• A falsehood; a lie.

• Shapeshifting water spirits in Germanic mythology and folklore

verb

• To hang by the neck; strangle; kill, eliminate

  Example: Go neck yourself.

• To make love; to intently kiss or cuddle; to canoodle.

  Example: Alan and Betty were necking in the back of a car when Betty's dad caught them.

• To drink rapidly.

• To decrease in diameter.