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Meanings of neck in English

Portuguese
pescoço
Catalan
coll
Spanish
cuello

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

        pescoço
        Portuguese
        colarinho
        Catalan
        coll
        Spanish
        cuello

        An opening in a garment for the neck of the wearer; a part of the garment near the wearer's neck.

              colarinho
              Synonyms
              Examples for "neck opening"
              Examples for "neck opening"
              1
              When, as occasionally happened, a fifth was added, this was placed on the breast just below the neck opening.
              The Project Gutenberg Encyclopedia, Volume 1 of 28
              2
              She attached the cording through a hook in the leg, making sure it was snug, and ran it through the neck opening.
              Goodbye dolly
              3
              The innards, including the backbone, had been carefully drawn out of the neck opening, while the feet and tail were left in place.
              The Land of Painted Caves
              4
              Jondalar let go, and she took hold of the neck opening of her tunic and pulled it over her head in one smooth motion.
              The Plains of Passage
              5
              With rounded wooden picks, fasten skin across cavity and neck openings.
              The Perdue Chicken Cookbook
              Spanish
              besuquearse

              Kiss, embrace, or fondle with sexual passion.

                    besuquearse

                    The narrow portion near the opening of a bottle.

                          Usage of neck in English
                          1
                          The buttocks, in the folds of the neck and in the groins.
                          Mother's Remedies / Over One Thousand Tried and Tested Remedies ...
                          2
                          The jacket was short in the waist and high in the neck.
                          Watch Yourself Go By
                          3
                          Capital handling of the neck and throat; lovely work on the nose.
                          Roderick Hudson
                          4
                          The contractile vacuole is in the anterior neck-like portion of the body.
                          Marine Protozoa from Woods Hole / Bulletin of the United States ...
                          5
                          The latest political poll by Newshub-Reid Research has Labour-Greens and National neck-n-neck.
                          Radio NZ
                          6
                          Her neck was short; and she was not in the least genteel.
                          The Governess; Or, The Little Female Academy
                          7
                          Polls had shown the Leave and Remain camps neck-and-neck before the referendum.
                          Reuters
                          8
                          Best results are achieved in cases of small aneurysm with small neck.
                          Pubmed
                          9
                          The China Cat stretched her neck and looked at the Cloth Dog.
                          The Story of a China Cat
                          10
                          In mammals say, where the neck got longer and longer and longer.
                          The new yorker
                          11
                          I'll stick my neck out and say I hope it's quite good.
                          The Guardian
                          12
                          The lasso catch him around the neck; he is obliged to remain.
                          From Sand Hill to Pine
                          13
                          The front-entrance broadens into a gallery; the back-entrance tapers into a funnel-neck.
                          The Life of the Spider
                          14
                          Only simple straight nipples which slip over the neck of the bottle.
                          The Care and Feeding of Children / A Catechism for the Use of Mo...
                          15
                          Support for leaving and remaining are still running neck-and-neck, opinion polls show.
                          Reuters
                          16
                          Nerado tied a knot in his neck and spoke in huge relief.
                          Triplanetary
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