Englisch > Deutsch | |
neck | |
1. Substantiv: | |
2. [1] der Hals | |
3. [2] das Genick | |
[1] "The neck is the part of the body, on many terrestrial or secondarily aquatic vertebrates, that distinguishes the head from the torso or trunk." | |
[2] "By the way, I don't suppose you appreciate that we have been mourning over you as having broken your neck?" | |
Englisch > Englisch | |
neck | |
1. subst. (anatomy) The part of body connecting the head and the trunk found in humans and some animals. | |
2. subst. The corresponding part in some other anatomical contexts. | |
3. subst. The part of a shirt, dress etc., which fits a person's neck. | |
4. subst. The tapered part of a bottle toward the opening. | |
5. subst. (botany) The slender tubelike extension atop an archegonium, through which the sperm swim to reach the egg. | |
6. subst. (music) The extension of any stringed instrument on which a fingerboard is mounted | |
7. subst. A long narrow tract of land projecting from the main body, or a narrow tract connecting two larger tracts. | |
8. subst. (engineering) A reduction in size near the end of an object, formed by a groove around it. | |
a neck forming the journal of a shaft | |
9. subst. The constriction between the root and crown of a tooth. | |
10. subst. (architecture) The gorgerin of a capital. | |
11. subst. (firearms) The small part of a gun between the chase and the swell of the muzzle. | |
12. subst. (informal, MLE, slang) A falsehood; a lie. | |
13. v. To hang by the neck; strangle; kill, eliminate | |
Go neck yourself. | |
14. v. (chiefly US) To make love; to intently kiss or cuddle; to canoodle. | |
Alan and Betty were necking in the back of a car when Betty's dad caught them. | |
15. v. To drink rapidly. | |
16. v. To decrease in diameter. | |
Deutsch > Englisch | |
Hals | |
1. subst. neck | |
2. subst. throat | |