neck

Definizione monolingua

neck

neck (third-person singular simple present necks, present participle necking, simple past and past participle necked)

1. To hang by the neck; strangle; kill, eliminate
2. (US) To make love; to snog; to intently kiss or cuddle.

   Alan and Betty were necking in the back of a car when Bettys dad caught them.

3. To drink rapidly.
   • 2006, Sarah Johnstone, Tom Masters, London

     In the dim light, punters sit sipping raspberry-flavoured Tokyo martinis, losing the freestyle sushi off their chopsticks or necking Asahi beer.

neck (plural necks)

1. The part of body connecting the head and the trunk found in humans and some animals.
2. The corresponding part in some other anatomical contexts.
3. The part of a shirt, dress etc., which fits a persons neck.
4. The tapered part of a bottle toward the opening.
5. (botany) The slender tubelike extension atop an archegonium, through which the sperm swim to reach the egg.
   • 1992, Rudolf M. Schuster, The Hepaticae and Anthocerotae of North America: East of the Hundredth Meridian, volume V, page 5

     Archegonia are surrounded early in their development by the juvenile perianth, through the slender beak of which the elongated neck of the fertilized archegonium protrudes.

6. (music) The extension of any stringed instrument on which a fingerboard is mounted

Definizione dizionario neck

	collo
	the part of body connecting the head and the trunk found in humans and some animals
	The part of the body (found in some animals, including humans) that connects the head and the trunk.

colletto

collottola

collu

gola

istmo

manico

nuca

scollatura

Altri significati:

the tapered part of a bottle toward the opening

The tapered part of a bottle toward the opening.

(music) The extension of any stringed instrument on which a fingerboard is mounted

(US) To make love; to snog; to intently kiss or cuddle.

The corresponding part in some other anatomical contexts.

The back half of the part of the body (found in some animals, including humans) that connects the head and the trunk.

the extension of any stringed instrument on which a fingerboard is mounted

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

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

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

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

To drink rapidly.

neck (region)

To hang by the neck; strangle; kill, eliminate