Neck

Definition: Neck

Neck

Noun

1. The part of an organism that connects the head to the rest of the body; "he admired her long graceful neck".

2. A narrow elongated projecting strip of land.

3. A cut of meat from the neck of an animal.

4. Opening for the neck; the part of a garment near the neck opening.

Verb

1. Kiss, embrace, or fondle with sexual passion; "The couple were necking in the back seat of the car".

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

Date "neck" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1010. (references)

19th Century Satire

Bible

Dream Interpretation

Food & Agriculture

Geography

Literature

Mechanical Engineering

Metallurgy

Mining

Transportation

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Synonyms: Neck

Contraction

Noun: contraction, reduction, diminution; decrease; of size; defalcation, decrement; lessening, shrinking; Verb: compaction; tabes, collapse, emaciation, attenuation, tabefaction, consumption, marasmus, atrophy; systole, neck, hourglass.

Narrowness Thinness

Middle constriction, stricture, neck, waist, isthmus, wasp, hourglass; ridge, ghaut, ghat, pass; ravine.

Crosswords: Neck

Romanian (neck).

Oh! My neck! My back (Friday; writing credit: D.J. Pooh, Ice Cube)

Neck is-- I can't think of anything for neck right now. (Wild Wild West; writing credit: Jim Thomas; John Thomas)

It's a nice night for a neck injury (Home Alone 2: Lost in New York; writing credit: John Hughes)

He broke his neck while trying to suck his own dick (Clerks.; writing credit: Kevin Smith)

We're here about to capture this alligator right behind us, The trick to capturing this guy is to put your arms around his neck (Dr. Dolittle 2; writing credit: Larry Levin)

UH DOG TAGS AROUND MY NECK THE STREETS ARE MINE (Come Back In One Piece; performing artist: Aaliyah)

I make your neck snap back (Funkdafied; performing artist: Da Brat)

You're wearing my locket around your neck (Leaving Town; performing artist: Dexter Freebish)

In a party I go for your neck so call me Blackula (Keep Their Headz Ringin; performing artist: Dr. Dre)

The chain so icey, I got chill bumps on my neck (Can't Deny It; performing artist: Fabolous)

A hole is nothing at all, but you can break your neck in it. (references; author: unknown)

Honorable Paint in the Neck (1962)

Up to His Neck (1954)

Neck and Neck (1942)

Up to the Neck (1933)

Neck and Neck (1931)

My Neck, My Back (performing artist: Khia)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

References

• The Official Patient's Sourcebook on Metastatic Squamous Neck Cancer with Occult Primary (reference)

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Books

• Horse's Neck (reference)

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Periodicals

• Care Of The Neck (reference)

• Cme Bulletin : Otorhinolaryngology Head & Neck Surgery (reference)

• Northern Neck Of Virginia Historical Magazine (reference)

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Theater & Movies

• Busta Rhymes: Break Your Neck with Busta Rhymes - Unauthorized (reference)

• The Fearless Vampire Killers or: Pardon Me, But Your Teeth Are in My Neck (reference)

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Music

• Don't Step on Your Neck (reference)

• Gimme Some Neck (reference)

• Neck & Neck (reference)

  (more classical music examples; more popular music examples)

High Tech

• Canon 10x25 Compact Binoculars with Case & Neck Strap (reference)

• NEOGEO POCKET Neck Strap (reference)

  (more camera examples; more video game examples; more computer examples; more electronic examples; more software examples)

Consumer Goods

• SPI 7250 Tranquility Zone Neck Massager (reference)

• Great Neck Saw CT1 Carving Tool (reference)

  (more baby examples; more wireless phone examples; more garden examples; more kitchen examples; more tool examples)

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Shown are various shots of two young girls with acute lymphocytic leukemia (ALL) receiving chemotherapy. The girl on the left has an IV tube in the neck, the other girl's IV is in her arm. They are sitting on a bed and are demonstrating some of the procedures and techniques used with chemotherapy. Credit: Bill Branson (photographer).

Radiolabeled monoclonal antibodies confirm that this patient's cutaneous t-cell lymph cancer involves the lymph nodes and skin. The antibodies collect in the cancerous lymph nodes of the armpits, neck and groin and a strong outline of the patient's body verifies skin involvement. The liver and spleen are darkened, too, because it is normal for these organs to collect the antibodies. See artwork: GA-17. Credit: Unknown photographer/artist.

Anthrax skin lesion on neck of man. Cutaneous. Credit: CDC.

Six week old infant with botulism, which is evident as a marked loss of muscle tone, especially in the region of the head and neck. Credit: CDC.

Steve Amstrup of USFWS with large sedated polar bear - Ursus maritimus. Bears were measured and tagged for future study. This sedated male was ready for the WWF with a 45 inch neck and weighing about 1400 pounds. Credit: NOAA's Ark (Animals).

Volunteers plant a salt marsh plant smooth cordgrass, Spartina alterniflora, at the Eastern Neck National Wildlife Refuge on Eastern Neck Island, MD. Credit: NOAA Restoration Center.

The Eastern Neck site prepared for planting. The poles represent planting treatment designations. The poles with flags indicate transects that were used for topography and vegetation surveys. In the distance, rocks were placed to reduce storm wave energy. Credit: NOAA Restoration Center.

Padilla Bay National Estuarine Research Reserve. The Bald Eagle, Haliaeetus leucocephalus, adults (more than 5 years old) are unmistakable with dark brown plumage except for white head, neck and tails. The beak, eyes, legs, and feet are yellow. Wing span up to 2.5 meters, with females considerably larger than males. Immature eagles lack white plumage and yellow accents. Credit: National Estuarine Research Reserve System (NERR).

Little neck clams. Credit: USDA.

Freezemark on neck of wild horse provides unique identification. Credit: Neal Hedges.

Source: pictures compiled by the editor from various references; see picture credits.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

And of Caligula, that he openly declared, that he would be no longer a head to the people or senate, and that he had it in his thoughts to cut off the worthiest men of both ranks, and then retire to Alexandria: and he wisht that the people had but one neck, that he might dispatch them all at a blow, Such designs as these, when any king harbours in his thoughts, and seriously promotes, he immediately gives up all care and thought of the common-wealth; and consequently forfeits the power of governing his subjects, as a master does the dominion over his slaves whom he hath abandoned. (Second Treatise of Government)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Then he undid the chain, and showed her how to fasten it round her neck, and to hide it away under the edge of her frock

Perhaps it was that he smiled slightly too broadly and gave people the unnerving impression that he was about to go for their neck.

Theodule embraced her a second time, and she had the happiness of having her neck a little chafed by the braid of his uniform

They breathed behind him on his neck and sighed as they prayed

Dusty water ran out of his hair and streaked his neck.

When I advanced to the middle of the channel, they were yet in more pain, because I was under water to my neck.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Health

Activities that can injure the neck should be avoided. (references)

The neck may turn or pull involuntarily, especially when tired. (references)

The wire loop goes around your neck and connects to the mobile phone. (references)

Business

Among them was 16-year-old Alfredo Ramirez Santiago, who was hanged by the neck from a tree and beaten on the head and body. (references)

Abdominal (Back & Neck) machines, upper and lower torso machines, and 45-degree bench presses are the basic elements of a gym, using mechanics to exercise different muscle groups. (references)

Civil Liberties

Malawi

One student protestor was shot in the chest and later died in the hospital; a bystander also was hospitalized after a bullet grazed his neck. (references)

Tunisia

The police instructed her to leave; however, when she turned the car around 10 police officers surrounded the car, shouted at her, kicked the car, and beat her on the head, neck, and chest. (references)

Human Rights

Morocco

The marks reportedly included contusions and bruises on his neck and knees. (references)

Political Economy

Sudan

No action was taken against the members of the security forces responsible for torturing, beating, raping, or otherwise abusing persons in the following cases from 2000: The November beating of a foreign ICRC worker during an NDA attack on government forces in Kassala; the September incidents in which police used tear gas, batons, and live ammunition to disperse demonstrators and in some instances, beat or otherwise injured numerous individuals; the June beating in Hilla Kuku of a Catholic seminarian on the neck and wrist with a stick after he refused to remove a wooden cross that he was wearing; the June attack on Juba University in Khartoum using sticks and tear gas; the May raids by security forces on Alnasr Technology College in which they arrested, beat, injured students, and fired bullets in the air to disperse a student protest on education issues; and the February detention and beating of two students for political activity by security forces. (references)

Travel

Nepal

Passports and cash should be carried in a protected neck pouch - not in a backpack. (references)

Women

Kuwait

The maid suffered permanent damage to her face, neck, ears, and arms. (references)

Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits.

The neck or skull

The neck or skull

The neck or skull

Expressions using "neck": a crick in one's neck ♦ a crick in the neck ♦ a pain in the neck ♦ back of the neck ♦ be a pain in the neck ♦ be dead from the neck up ♦ be pain in the neck ♦ beef neck ♦ bend the neck ♦ brace for neck injuries ♦ break one's neck ♦ break the neck of a task ♦ bull neck ♦ by the scruff of smb.'s neck ♦ by the scruff of the neck ♦ chain round the neck ♦ colts Neck ♦ countersunk square neck bolt for woodwork ♦ Cove Neck ♦ crane one's neck ♦ crane the neck ♦ crew neck ♦ crick in one's neck ♦ crick in the neck ♦ crick one's neck ♦ cuckold's neck ♦ dead from the neck ♦ Durants Neck ♦ Eatons Neck ♦ fall on one's neck ♦ fat neck ♦ Femoral Neck Fractures ♦ get it in the neck ♦ Globus sensation in the neck ♦ goose neck ♦ Great Neck ♦ Great Neck Estates ♦ Great Neck Plaza ♦ hang like a millstone round one's neck ♦ have a grubby neck ♦ have a stiff neck ♦ have wry neck ♦ Head and Neck Neoplasms ♦ he's got it all round his neck ♦ Hewlett Neck ♦ in this neck of the woods ♦ Indian Neck ♦ Little Neck ♦ Long Neck ♦ low neck ♦ Mason Neck ♦ Mill Neck ♦ neck and crop ♦ neck and heels ♦ neck and neck ♦ neck bone ♦ neck brace ♦ neck chain ♦ Neck City ♦ neck collar ♦ neck cord ♦ neck dissection ♦ neck exercise ♦ neck handkerchief ♦ Neck Injuries ♦ neck microphone ♦ Neck Muscles ♦ neck of a bottle ♦ neck of a capital ♦ neck of a cascabel ♦ neck of a gun ♦ neck of a tooth ♦ neck of land ♦ neck of the bottle ♦ neck of the capital ♦ neck or nothing ♦ neck or throat sweetbread ♦ Neck Pain ♦ neck rein ♦ neck ruff ♦ neck sweetbread ♦ neck verse ♦ neck yoke ♦ of the neck ♦ on the neck of ♦ pain in the neck ♦ polo neck ♦ polo neck sweater ♦ Radical Neck Dissection ♦ risk one's neck ♦ roll neck ♦ rough neck ♦ save one's neck ♦ Scotland Neck ♦ scraggy neck ♦ scruff of the neck ♦ seize an animal by the scruff of the neck ♦ seize by the neck ♦ stick one's neck out ♦ stick out one's neck ♦ stiff neck. Additional references.

Beginning with "neck": neck-amphora, neck-amphorae, neck-and-neck, neck-aways, neck-band, neck-binding, neck-bite, neck-block, neck-bone, neck-bow, neck-breaking, neck-chain, neck-chains, neck-cloths, neck-cord, neck-edging, neck-fur, neck-hairs, neck-heaviness, neck-heavy, neck-high, neck-lock, neck-mounted, neck-muscles, neck-ornaments, neck-piece, neck-plate, neck-reining, neck-rests, neck-ruff, neck-scarf, neck-shaft, neck-side, neck-spotted, neck-strain, neck-strap, neck-stretching, neck-stump, neck-support, neck-through-body, neck-thrusting, neck-tie, neck-ties, neck-to-ankle, neck-to-headstock, neck-to-nothing, neck-top, neck-up, neck-veins, neck-wear.

Ending with "neck": crew-neck, neck-and-neck, open-neck, roll-neck, square-neck, swan-neck, through-neck, thru-neck, turtle-neck, v-neck.

Containing "neck": Bottle-neck frame, head-neck-body, Little-neck clam, long-neck clam, polo-neck collar, turtle-neck sweater.

Afrikaans

nek, hals. (various references)

Albanian

ngushticë (channel, defile, narrow, pinch, plight, sound, Strait, want), grykë pusi (throat), harbutje, istëm, jakë (collar, facing, neckband), krahinë (country, district, place, province, region, shedding), lëfyt (larynx, spout, throat), grykë (defile, gap, gizzard, gob, inlet, jaw, jaws, lip, maw, mouth, muzzle, neckband, nose, nozzle, orifice, outfall, ravine, spout, throat, vent), paturpshmëri (effrontery, imprudence, mouth, shamelessness), vend (clime, country, course, diggings, ground, job, land, location, locus, nation, native land, part, place, point, position, post, receptacle, region, room, seat, space, spot, station, stead, terrain, territory), pjesë e rëndë, puthem, qafë (Col, collar, nape, neckband, pass, saddle), qafë e dhëmbit, qafe, rrip toke (divide), truall (coat, country, land, location, terrain), përqafohem (canoodle, embrace one another, lallygag). (various references)

Arabic 

‏عنق الزجاجة (bottleneck), ‏عنق الشىء, ‏عنق (crag), ‏عانق (caress, clasp, cuddle, embrace, enfold, fold, grasp, hug, lock, pet, press), ‏خنق (asphyxiate, choke, flummox, garrote, overlay, overpower, sizzle, stifle, strangle, strangulate, strangulation, stultify, suffocate, suffocation, throttle, throttling, worry), ‏جيد (fully, good, kindly, perfect, pretty, prime, well), ‏العنق (choke), ‏رقبة الحصان, ‏رقبة. (various references)

Asturian

pescuezu. (various references)

Aymara

cunca. (various references)

Bemba

umukoshi. (various references)

Blackfoot

mohkokín. (various references)

Bulgarian 

гърло (gorge, gullet, manhole, mouth, pharynx, swallow, throat, weasand, whistle), пия (consume, discuss, drink, guzzle, have, hobnob, imbibe, lush, take), прегръщаме се (embrace), провлак (isthmus), месо от врата, мундщук (cannon bit, embouchure, lip, mouthpiece, nozzle, snout), накрайник (nozzle), натискам се (press, scramble), нахалство (arrogance, cheek, contumely, crust, face, front, gall, impertinence, insolence, lip, mouth, nerve, presumption, sauciness, temerity, uppishness), област (area, clime, demesne, department, district, domain, field, ground, land, limit, market, province, purview, range, realm, region, territory), врат (throat), деколте (decolletage), галя (canoodle, caress, cosset, flatter, fondle, kiss, nurse, pet), стеснявам (narrow, restrict, straiten), клисура (couloir, defile, draw, gap, gorge, narrow, notch, opening, ravine), кратер (crater), къркам (bib, guzzle, imbibe), шийка (cervix, collar, gudgeon, necking), шийка на орган, шия (cervix, needle, sew, stitch, throat), тесен пролив (belt, gut, sound), цилиндричен интрузив, район (area, district, limit, location, radius, region, run, section, vicinity), свивам (bend, constrict, contract, convulse, cop, double, double up, draw, knap, knit, knit together, knot, pinch, pucker, roll, screw, screw up, set, shorten, snitch, swing, turn, turn down, twist, wad, warp, work), вратна извивка. (various references)

Cebuano

liog. (various references)

Chamorro

tongho. (various references)

Chinese 

脖子 . (various references)

Cornish

conna. (various references)

Czech

krk (throat). (various references)

Danish

hals (body recess, bustle main offtake, cervix, collum, shoulder, tack, throat). (various references)

Dutch

nek (back of the neck, nape), hals (handle, knob). (various references)

Ecuadorian Quechua

cunca. (various references)

Esperanto

kolo. (various references)

Faeroese

hálsur (throat). (various references)

Farsi 

ماچ ونوازش کردن , گردنه (Cervix, Defile, Stem), گردن , تنگه (Bottleneck, Canyon, Gut, Strait). (various references)

Finnish

kaula (throat). (various references)

French

cou, collet (necklet), col (neckband). (various references)

Frisian

nekke, hals (throat). (various references)

German

Hals (cervical, maw, scrag, stem, throat), nacken (back of the neck, cervix, nape), genick (back of the neck, nape), ausschnitt (clip, clipping, cutting, detail, excerpt, extract, neck line, neckline, notch, sector). (various references)

Greek 

λαιμός (throat), αυχένας (backbone, cervix, collum, crank pin bearing roll nock, neck journal, spine, trunnion). (various references)

Hebrew 

מפרקת (loment, nape), מצר (defile, depressed, fix, gut, narrow pass, orifice, sorry, straitness, straits, stricture), למזמז (dissipate, dwindle, flirt, soften), ללטף (caress, fondle, pet, stroke), להתמזמז (canoodle, dally, flirt, fool around, make out, pet), להתחבק (embrace one another), עורף (nape), גרון (gullet, larynx, throat), צוארון (collar, necklace), צואר (nape, throat). (various references)

Hungarian

nyak (barrel, collar, crag, nab, scrag, shank, stud, tang), gallér (bands, collar, neck-piece, stand up). (various references)

Icelandic

háls. (various references)

Indonesian

leher. (various references)

Inuktitut

qungasiq. (various references)

Italian

collo (cervical, collar, neckband, package), gola (defile, gorge, gullet, throat, throttle). (various references)

Japanese Kanji 

襟 (collar, lapel, neckband), 首 . (various references)

Japanese Katakana 

ネック (bottleneck), くび, こうりょう (advance for manuscript, bleak, broad-hearted, collar, comparison, condolence gift, consideration, copy-money, deliberation, desolate, dragon which has already ascended to the heavens, duchy, dukedom, flavoring, general plan, generosity, hidden genius, hill, imperial mausoleum, main points, perfume, principality, proofreading completed, radiation intensity, rain dragon, rations, spices, summary), けいぶ (contempt, police inspector, scorn), えり (collar, lapel, neckband). (various references)

Kongo

nsingu. (various references)

Korean 

목. (various references)

Macedonian

vrat. (various references)

Malay

leher (empty, void). (various references)

Manx

nuiddraghey (pet, pet as lovers, spoon), mwannal (col, collar, fingerboard, imprudence, scruff). (various references)

Maori

kakii. (various references)

Maya

kaal (butler, to lock up, twenty). (various references)

Mohawk

onyàta (front of the neck), onyàra (back of the neck). (various references)

Norwegian

hals. (various references)

Papago

baiuka. (various references)

Pig Latin

ecknay.(various references)

Polish

szyja. (various references)

Portuguese

pescoço (scrag, scruff), garganta (abysm, col, defile, dingle, fauces, gap, gate, gizzard, gorge, pass, ravine, swallow, throat, throttle, whistle). (various references)

Provencal

còl. (various references)

Romanian

neruşinare (bawdy, brass, cheek, effrontery, front, immodesty, impudence, indecency, indecorum, lack of restraint, obsceneness, rudeness, shamelessness), neobrãzare (boldness, cheek, contumely, flippancy, immodesty, nerve), neck, se îmbrãţişa, limbã de pãmânt (spit), istm (isthmus), guler (collar, hackle, head, neckband, ruffle), grumaz (throat), gât (gorge, journal, pull, ravine, scrag, sip, spout, swallow, throat), degajare inelarã, coş vulcanic (funnel). (various references)

Romansch

tatona. (various references)

Romany

men. (various references)

Ruanda

izosi. (various references)

Russian 

шея (cervix, nape of the neck). (various references)

Samoan

ua. (various references)

Scottish

bràghad (throat). (various references)

Sepedi

molala. (various references)

Serbo-Croatian

vratni (cervical, jugular), vrat (cervix, fingerboard), ljubiti se, guša (craw, gullet, throat), grlo (fauces, gorge, orifice, throat), šija. (various references)

Shona

mutsipa. (various references)

Spanish

cuello (collar), pescuezo (scrag, scruff), garganta (abysm, Coomb, gorge, gullet, ravine, throat), cerviz (cervix, nape of the neck). (various references)

Sranan

neki (back of the neck, nape). (various references)

Swazi

ín-tsamo. (various references)

Swedish

hals (fauces, scrag, stem, tack, throat), sund (channel, healthy, salubrious, sane, sound, straight, strait, straits, stright, well, wholesome), nacke (back of the head, back of the neck, nape). (various references)

Tagalog

leég. (various references)

Thai

โอบกอด (จูบและกอด), ส่วนที่แคบเข้ามา, คอเสื้อ (neckband, neckline), คอขวด. (various references)

Turkish

boyun (cervical, cervix, jugular, scrag). (various references)

Turkmen 

boяun. (various references)

Ukrainian

скрутити голову курці, цапфа (wrist, wrist pin), шия (cervix, nub), шийка пляшки (bottle-neck, nose, nozzle), шийка (cervix), шийна частина туші, кільцева канавка, коса (back-hair, braid, plait, queue, scythe, tress), комір (all-rounder, band-collar, collar), вузька протока (belt, narrow), відрубати голову, обніматися і цілуватися, нахабство (assurance, audacity, barefacedness, chat, cheek, contumely, effrontery, hardihood, insolence, insolency, nerve, sauce), зухвалість (assuredness, audacity, barefacedness, chat, cheek, effrontery, forwardness, hardiness, immodesty, impertinence, lip, nerve, outrecuidance), перешийок (isthmus). (