neck Définition - Anglais Dictionnaire | neck Explications et Prononciations

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

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

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

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

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

The constriction between the root and crown of a tooth.

(architecture) The gorgerin of a capital.

(firearms) The small part of a gun between the chase and the swell of the muzzle.

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

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

Plus d'exemples

Utilisé au milieu de la phrase
- Boy howdy, boy howdy, boy howdy! I was buried alive in noise, and the heat and cinders stung my neck and legs and the bottoms of my feet.
- It is a tableau in which postbath steam rises off muscular necks and horses stride lazily through the trees.
- A flea out of a blanket shaken, A bloody-minded sinner, Upon a taylor's neck was taken, Marauding for a dinner.
Utilisé au début de la phrase
- Neck and segment 1 of Semnoderes armiger in dorsal view, showing the deep middorsal incision in the anterior segment margin (arrow) (character 17, state 2).
- Neck and segment 1 of Sphenoderes poseidon in ventral view, showing the deep midventral incision in the anterior segment margin (arrow) (character 17, state 2).
Utilisé dans la fin de la phrase
- Close the trap, would you, before someone falls and breaks their neck.

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