Meaning of neck | Babel Free

Definitions

1. A shapeshifting water spirit in Germanic mythology and folklore; a nix.
2. neck (part of body connecting the head and the torso)
3. The part of the body connecting the head and the trunk found in humans and some animals.
4. collar (part of a shirt fitting around the neck)
5. The corresponding part in some other anatomical contexts.
6. The part of a shirt, dress etc., which fits a person's neck.
7. The tapered part of a bottle toward the opening.
8. The slender tubelike extension atop an archegonium, through which the sperm swim to reach the egg.
9. The extension of any stringed instrument on which a fingerboard is mounted
10. A long narrow tract of land projecting from the main body, or a narrow tract connecting two larger tracts.
11. A reduction in size near the end of an object, formed by a groove around it.
12. The constriction between the root and crown of a tooth.
13. The gorgerin of a capital.
14. A volcanic plug, solidified lava filling the vent of an extinct volcano.
15. The small part of a gun between the chase and the swell of the muzzle.
16. A person's life.
    figuratively
17. A falsehood; a lie.
    Multicultural-London-English, informal, slang
18. Fellatio
    slang
19. A bundle of wheat used in certain English harvest ceremonies.
    historical

Equivalents

Examples

“Giraffes have long necks.”

“Mother, help me, there's a head attached to my neck and I'm in it.”

“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.”

“a neck forming the journal of a shaft”

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

“Shorty throw neck like a geese She make me speak Portuguese”

“She drop neck for a check and a paystub”

“The person with 'the neck' stands in the centre, grasping it with both his hands”

“"The neck" is generally hung up in the farmhouse, where it remains for two or three years.”

“The Neck no more upon the river sings. And no Mermaid to bleach her linen flings Upon the waves in the mild solar ray.”

“The beautiful Nix or Nixie who allures the young fisher or hunter to seek her embraces in the wave which brings his death, the Neck who seizes upon and drowns the maidens who sport upon his banks, the river-spirit who still yearly in some parts of Germany demands tribute of human life, are all forms of the ancient Nicor[.]”

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