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What (who) is neck - definition

PART OF THE BODY, ON MANY TERRESTRIAL OR SECONDARILY AQUATIC VERTEBRATES, THAT DISTINGUISHES THE HEAD FROM THE TORSO OR TRUNK

Necks; Human neck; Collum (anatomy); Neck injury

neck

I

n.

1) to crane one's neck

2) to twist, wring smb.'s neck

3) (misc.) to risk one's neck ('to risk one's life'); to break one's neck trying to do smt. ('to make a maximum effort to get smt. done'); to stick one's neck out ('to expose oneself to danger'); by a neck ('by a close margin'); up to one's neck in work ('swamped with work'); neck and neck ('even')

II

v. (colloq.) (D; intr.) ('to hug and kiss') to neck with

neck

(necks, necking, necked)

Frequency: The word is one of the 3000 most common words in English.

1.

Your neck is the part of your body which joins your head to the rest of your body.

She threw her arms round his neck and hugged him warmly...

He was short and stocky, and had a thick neck.

N-COUNT: usu poss N

2.

The neck of an article of clothing such as a shirt, dress, or sweater is the part which surrounds your neck.

...the low, ruffled neck of her blouse...

He wore a blue shirt open at the neck.

N-COUNT: usu sing

3.

The neck of something such as a bottle or a guitar is the long narrow part at one end of it.

Catherine gripped the broken neck of the bottle.

N-COUNT: usu the N of n

4.

If two people are necking, they are kissing each other in a sexual way. (INFORMAL)

They sat talking and necking in the car for another ten minutes...

I found myself behind a curtain, necking with my best friend's wife.

= snog

V-RECIP: usu cont, pl-n V, V with n, also V n (non-recip)

5.

If you say that someone is breathing down your neck, you mean that they are watching you very closely and checking everything you do.

Most farmers have bank managers breathing down their necks.

PHRASE: V and N inflect

6.

In a competition, especially an election, if two or more competitors are neck and neck, they are level with each other and have an equal chance of winning.

The latest polls indicate that the two main parties are neck and neck...

The party is running neck-and-neck with Labour.

PHRASE: usu v-link PHR, oft PHR with n

7.

If you say that someone is risking their neck, you mean they are doing something very dangerous, often in order to achieve something.

I won't have him risking his neck on that motorcycle.

PHRASE: V and N inflect

8.

If you stick your neck out, you bravely say or do something that might be criticized or might turn out to be wrong. (INFORMAL)

During my political life I've earned myself a reputation as someone who'll stick his neck out, a bit of a rebel.

PHRASE: V and N inflect

9.

If you say that someone is in some sort of trouble or criminal activity up to their neck, you mean that they are deeply involved in it. (INFORMAL)

He is probably up to his neck in debt.

PHRASE: N inflects

10.

Someone or something that is from your neck of the woods is from the same part of the country as you are. (INFORMAL)

It's so good to see you. What brings you to this neck of the woods?

PHRASE: usu in PHR

11.

to have a millstone round your neck: see millstone

the scruff of your neck: see scruff

neck

¦ noun

1. the part of a person's or animal's body connecting the head to the rest of the body.

2. a narrow connecting or end participle

the part of a bottle or other container near the mouth.

a narrow piece of terrain or sea.

3. the length of a horse's head and neck as a measure of its lead in a race.

4. the part of a violin, guitar, or other instrument that bears the fingerboard.

5. (usu. in phr. have the neck to do something) informal impudence or nerve.

6. Geology a column of igneous rock occupying the site of a volcanic vent.

¦ verb

1. informal kiss and caress amorously.

2. Brit. informal swallow (a drink).

3. (often neck down) become narrow at a particular point when subjected to tension.

Phrases

get (or catch) it in the neck Brit. informal be severely criticized or punished.

neck and neck level in a race, competition, or comparison.

neck of the woods informal a particular area or locality.

up to one's neck in informal deeply or busily involved in.

Derivatives

-necked adjective

necker noun

neckless adjective

Origin

OE hnecca 'back of the neck', of Gmc origin.

Wikipedia

Neck

The neck is the part of the body on many vertebrates that connects the head with the torso. The neck supports the weight of the head and protects the nerves that carry sensory and motor information from the brain down to the rest of the body. In addition, the neck is highly flexible and allows the head to turn and flex in all directions. The structures of the human neck are anatomically grouped into four compartments; vertebral, visceral and two vascular compartments. Within these compartments, the neck houses the cervical vertebrae and cervical part of the spinal cord, upper parts of the respiratory and digestive tracts, endocrine glands, nerves, arteries and veins. Muscles of the neck are described separately from the compartments. They bound the neck triangles.

In anatomy, the neck is also called by its Latin names, cervixcode: lat promoted to code: la or collumcode: lat promoted to code: la , although when used alone, in context, the word cervix more often refers to the uterine cervix, the neck of the uterus. Thus the adjective cervical may refer either to the neck (as in cervical vertebrae or cervical lymph nodes) or to the uterine cervix (as in cervical cap or cervical cancer).

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neck

Examples of use of neck

1. Polls put the independents neck–and–neck with Labour.

2. "Thaksin can‘t afford to have a neck–to–neck race.

3. Past surveys had shown the men running neck in neck.

4. Mayoral candidate: Boris Johnson It‘s neck and neck.

5. "If the politicians are running neck and neck, the payoff is not big," Zhuravsky said.