Translations

9 languages
Українська
By meaning 1
part of body connecting the head and the trunk:
Русский
By meaning 5
part of body connecting the head and the trunk:
part of a shirt, dress etc.:
tapered part of a bottle:
extension of stringed instrument:
long narrow tract of land projecting from the main body, or a narrow tract connecting two larger tracts:
Deutsch
By meaning 3
part of body connecting the head and the trunk:
part of a shirt, dress etc.:
tapered part of a bottle:

Examples

575 sentences

  1. Tom kissed Mary on the neck.

    Том поцілував Мері у шию. — deniko

    ruТом поцеловал Мэри в шею. — marafon

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  2. I have a pain in my neck.

    У мене болить шия. — deniko

    ruУ меня шея болит. — marafon

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  3. There's something on your neck.

    У тебе щось на шиї. — deniko

    ruНа твоей шее что-то есть. — Lenin_1917

    deSie haben da etwas am Hals. — Pfirsichbaeumchen

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Meaning

17 senses

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

    Giraffes have long necks.

    Hals, Nacken, Genick

    ше́яšéja, вы́яvýja

    ши́яšýja

    the part of an organism (human or animal) that connects the head to the rest of the body

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

    переше́екperešéjek

    a narrow elongated projecting strip of land

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

    Kragen

    во́ротvórot

More meanings 14

  1. The tapered part of a bottle toward the opening.

    Hals, Flaschenhals

    го́рлышкоgórlyško

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

    Hals

    грифgrif

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

    a neck forming the journal of a shaft

  4. (figuratively)A person's life.

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

  5. The corresponding part in some other anatomical contexts.

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

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

  8. The gorgerin of a capital.

  9. A volcanic plug, solidified lava filling the vent of an extinct volcano.

Origin

From Middle English nekke, nakke, from Old English hnecca, *hnæcca (“neck, nape”), from Pr

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”).

From Danish nøkke, Swedish näck.

Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0 · source

Forms

plural: necks
Singularneck
Pluralnecks

regular

Synonyms

8 synonyms
The part of the body connecting the head and the trunk…:scrag
A shapeshifting water spirit in Germanic mythology and…:nisnixnixienixy
(slang)Fellatio:Kirk
Close in meaning
  • the part of an organism (human or animal) that connects the head to the rest of the body:cervix
  • an opening in a garment for the neck of the wearer; a part of the garment near the wearer's neck:neck opening

Word family

122 related words
RelatedthroatB2
DerivednecklaceB1bateau neckboatneckbootneckbottleneckbrass-neckbrass neckbreakneckbullneckchicken-neckcowlneckcrew neckcrookneckdeer-neckdevil-on-the-neckdrake's-neck greendrop neckewe neckfiddleneckfiddler's neckforeneckfrilled-neck lizardfrillneckgamer neck

See also

neighbours in the dictionary
necessaryA2necessitatenecessityB2necklaceB1necklinenecktie

Dictionary text adapted from Wiktionary (Wiktionary contributors, CC BY-SA 4.0) and Open English WordNet / Princeton WordNet (CC BY 4.0, WordNet License); shared under CC BY-SA 4.0. Example sentences and recordings are credited where they appear.

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