Neck vs Beck - What's the difference?
neck | beck |
The part of body connecting the head and the trunk found in humans and some animals.
The corresponding part in some other anatomical contexts.
The part of a shirt, dress etc., which fits a person's neck .
The tapered part of a bottle toward the opening.
(botany) The slender tubelike extension atop an archegonium, through which the sperm swim to reach the egg.
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(music) The extension of any stringed instrument on which a fingerboard is mounted
A long narrow tract of land projecting from the main body, or a narrow tract connecting two larger tracts.
(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.
The small part of a gun between the chase and the swell of the muzzle.
To hang by the neck; strangle; kill, eliminate
(US) To make love; to snog; to intently kiss or cuddle.
To drink rapidly.
* 2006 , Sarah Johnstone, Tom Masters, London
To decrease in diameter.
* 2007 , John H. Bickford, Introduction to the Design and Behavior of Bolted Joints ,
(Norfolk, Northern English dialect) A stream or small river.
* Drayton
A significant nod, or motion of the head or hand, especially as a call or command.
(archaic) To nod or motion with the head.
* Shakespeare
*{{quote-book, year=1896, author=Amelia Edith Huddleston Barr, title=Winter Evening Tales, chapter=, edition=
, passage="I'll buy so many acres of old Scotland and call them by the Lockerby's name; and I'll have nobles and great men come bowing and becking to David Lockerby as they do to Alexander Gordon. }}
*{{quote-book, year=1881, author=Various, title=The Best of the World's Classics, Vol. V (of X) - Great Britain and Ireland III, chapter=, edition=
, passage=The becking waiter, that with wreathed smiles, wont to spread for Samuel and Bozzy their "supper of the gods," has long since pocketed his last sixpence; and vanished, sixpence and all, like a ghost at cock-crowing. }}
As nouns the difference between neck and beck
is that neck is the part of body connecting the head and the trunk found in humans and some animals while beck is a stream or small river.As verbs the difference between neck and beck
is that neck is to hang by the neck; strangle; kill, eliminate while beck is to nod or motion with the head.neck
English
(wikipedia neck)Noun
(en noun)- 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
Derived terms
* bottleneck * hindneck * neck and neck/neck-and-neck * neckband * neckcloth * neckerchief (from kerchief) * necklace * neckless * necklet * neckline * neck of the woods * neck ring * necktie * neckwear * neckyoke * polo neck, polo-neck * stick one's neck out * turtleneck * V-neckSee also
* (l)Verb
(en verb)- ''Alan and Betty were necking in the back of a car when Betty's dad caught them.
- In the dim light, punters sit sipping raspberry-flavoured Tokyo martinis, losing the freestyle sushi off their chopsticks or necking Asahi beer.
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- Since this temperature would place the bolt in its creep range, it will slowly stretch, necking down as it does so. Eventually it will get too thin to support the weight, and the bolt will break.
Derived terms
* neckingSynonyms
* (kiss or cuddle intently ): French kiss, grope, pet, snuggle, smoochbeck
English
Etymology 1
From (etyl) . Cognate with low German bek or beckNoun
(en noun)- The brooks, the becks , the rills.
Synonyms
* brook * burn * creek * streamEtymology 2
A shortened form of (beckon), from (etyl) .Noun
(en noun)- To be at the beck and call of someone.
Verb
(en verb)- When gold and silver becks me to come on.
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