neck

名词 n. 动词 v.
中文释义

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. The part of the body connecting the head and the trunk found in humans and some animals.
    — Giraffes have long necks.
  2. A shapeshifting water spirit in Germanic mythology and folklore; a nix.
    — The Neck no more upon the river sings. And no Mermaid to bleach her linen flings Upon the waves in the mild solar ray.
  3. The corresponding part in some other anatomical contexts.
  4. The part of a shirt, dress etc., which fits a person's neck.
  5. The tapered part of a bottle toward the opening.
  6. The slender tubelike extension atop an archegonium, through which the sperm swim to reach the egg.
    — 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.
  7. The extension of any stringed instrument on which a fingerboard is mounted
  8. A long narrow tract of land projecting from the main body, or a narrow tract connecting two larger tracts.
  9. A reduction in size near the end of an object, formed by a groove around it.
    — a neck forming the journal of a shaft
  10. The constriction between the root and crown of a tooth.
  11. The gorgerin of a capital.
  12. A volcanic plug, solidified lava filling the vent of an extinct volcano.
  13. The small part of a gun between the chase and the swell of the muzzle.
  14. A person's life. figuratively
    — to risk one's neck; to save someone's neck
  15. A falsehood; a lie. Multicultural-London-English,informal,slang
  16. Fellatio slang
    — Shorty throw neck like a geese She make me speak Portuguese
  17. A bundle of wheat used in certain English harvest ceremonies. historical
    — The person with 'the neck' stands in the centre, grasping it with both his hands
动词 v.
  1. To hang by the neck; strangle; kill, eliminate. slang,transitive
    — Go neck yourself.
  2. To intently kiss or cuddle; to canoodle. US,informal,intransitive
    — Alan and Betty were necking in the back of a car when Betty's dad caught them.
  3. To drink or swallow rapidly. slang,transitive
    — Actually, mostly I swan around in my silver sports car, necking drugs, and feeling sorry for myself.
  4. To decrease in diameter. intransitive
    — Since this temperature would place the bolt in its creep range, it will slowly stretch, necking down as it does so. Eventually it will get too thin to support the weight, and the bolt will break.

词形变化

necks plural necks present,singular,third-person necking participle,present necked participle,past necked past necks plural

词汇关系

近义词
cervix collum
衍生词
above the neck rule albatross around one's neck albatross round one's neck boatneck bootneck bottleneck brass-neck brass neck breakneck break one's neck breathe down someone's neck bullneck bust one's neck catch it in the neck checkup from the neck up chicken-neck Codd-neck bottle cowlneck crewneck crew neck crookneck dead from the neck up deer-neck Derbyshire neck devil-on-the-neck drake's-neck green drop neck ewe neck fall on someone's neck fall upon someone's neck fiddleneck fiddler's neck foreneck frilled neck lizard frilled-neck lizard frillneck gamer neck get it in the neck give neck gooseneck halter neck halterneck harden one's neck have the world by the neck hindneck jewel-neck leatherneck legs all the way to one's neck limberneck littleneck long-neck longneck midneck millstone around one's neck millstone round one's neck my neck neckache neck and crop neck and heels neck and neck neck-and-neck neckband neckbeard neck bearing neckbeef neckbiter neckbone neck brace neckbrace neck-brace neckcloth neck-cloth neck corset neck day neckdeep neck deep neck-deep neck down neckdown neck eel necker neckercher neckerchief neckful neck-gable neck gaiter neckgear neck-guard neck guard neckholder neckhole neckinger neck in neck neck joint neck-kerchief neck kerchief neck knife necklace neckland neckless necklet necklift necklike neckline necklock neckmold neckmould neck of the woods neck oil neck or nothing neck pad neckpiece neck pillow neckplate neck plate neck ring neckroll neck rule neckshot neckspring neckstrap neck sweetbread necktie neck-turner neck up neck verse neckward neckwarmer neckwear neckweed neckyoke neck yoke neknomination open-neck pain in the neck pencil-neck pencil neck polo neck polo-neck polo neck sweater pseudoneck redneck red-necked buzzard red neck syndrome renecked ringneck ring-neck risk one's neck rollneck roughneck rubberneck rubbernecking save one's neck scoopneck scoop neck screen neck shitneck shunting neck sideneck side-neck snakeneck squareneck stick one's neck out stiff neck stiff-necked stiffnecked swan neck swan neck deformity tech neck text neck thickneck topneck turtle-neck turtle neck turtleneck turtle-neck sweater up to one's neck up to one's neck in alligators V-neck volcanic neck wind one's neck in woollyneck wryneck necking
相关词
throat

词源

词源 1
From Middle English nekke, nakke, from Old English hnecca, *hnæcca (“neck, nape”), from Proto-West Germanic *hnakkō, from Proto-Germanic *hnakkô (“nape, neck”), from Proto-Indo-European *knog-, *kneg- (“back of the head, nape, neck”).
Cognate with Scots nek (“neck”), North Frisian neek, neeke, Nak (“neck”), Saterland Frisian Näkke (“neck”), West Frisian nekke (“neck”), Dutch nek (“neck”), German Low German Nack (“neck”), German Nacken (“nape of the neck”), Danish nakke (“neck”), Swedish nacke (“nape of the neck”), Icelandic hnakki (“neck”), Tocharian A kñuk (“neck, nape”). Possibly a mutated variant of *kneug/k (compare Old English hnocc (“hook, penis”), Welsh cnwch (“joint, knob”), Latvian knaūķis (“dwarf”). Doublet of nek. More at nook. Displaced halse (“neck, throat”) and swire (“neck”).
词源 2
From Danish nøkke, Swedish näck.
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