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Neck vs Tree - What's the difference?

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As nouns the difference between neck and tree

is that neck is the part of body connecting the head and the trunk found in humans and some animals while tree is a large plant, not exactly defined, but typically over four meters in height, a single trunk which grows in girth with age and branches (which also grow in circumference with age).

As verbs the difference between neck and tree

is that neck is to hang by the neck; strangle; kill, eliminate while tree is to chase (an animal or person) up a tree.

neck

English

(wikipedia neck)

Noun

(en noun)
  • 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.
  • *
    • 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.
  • (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.
    • a neck forming the journal of a shaft
  • 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.

    • 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-neck

    See also

    * (l)

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • To hang by the neck; strangle; kill, eliminate
  • (US) To make love; to snog; to intently kiss or cuddle.
    • ''Alan and Betty were necking in the back of a car when Betty's dad caught them.
  • To drink rapidly.
  • * 2006 , Sarah Johnstone, Tom Masters, London
    • In the dim light, punters sit sipping raspberry-flavoured Tokyo martinis, losing the freestyle sushi off their chopsticks or necking Asahi beer.
  • To decrease in diameter.
  • * 2007 , John H. Bickford, Introduction to the Design and Behavior of Bolted Joints , page 272
    • 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

    * necking

    Synonyms

    * (kiss or cuddle intently ): French kiss, grope, pet, snuggle, smooch

    tree

    English

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    Noun

    (en-noun) (plural "treen" is obsolete)
  • A large plant, not exactly defined, but typically over four meters in height, a single trunk which grows in girth with age and branches (which also grow in circumference with age).
    • is the tallest living tree in the world.
    Birds have a nest in a tree in the garden.
  • Any plant that is reminiscent of the above but not classified as a tree in the strict botanical sense: for example the banana "tree".
  • An object made from a tree trunk and having multiple hooks]] or storage [[platform, platforms.
    • He had the choice of buying a scratching post or a cat tree .
  • A device used to hold or stretch a shoe open.
    • He put a shoe tree in each of his shoes.
  • The structural frame of a saddle.
  • (graph theory) A connected graph with no cycles or, equivalently, a connected graph with n'' vertices and ''n -1 edges.
  • (computing theory) A recursive data structure in which each node has zero or more nodes as children.
  • (graphical user interface) A display or listing of entries or elements such that there are primary and secondary entries shown, usually linked by drawn lines or by indenting to the right.
    • We’ll show it as a tree list.
  • Any structure or construct having branches akin to (1).
  • The structure or wooden frame used in the construction of a saddle used in horse riding.
  • (informal) Marijuana.
  • (obsolete) A cross or gallows.
    • Tyburn tree
  • * Bible, Acts x. 39
    • [Jesus] whom they slew and hanged on a tree .
  • (obsolete) wood; timber
  • * Wyclif Bible (2 Tim. ii. 20)
    • In a great house ben not only vessels of gold and of silver but also of tree and of earth.
  • (chemistry) A mass of crystals, aggregated in arborescent forms, obtained by precipitation of a metal from solution.

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    Proverbs

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    Hypernyms

    * plant * (in graph theory) graph

    Hyponyms

    * oak, fir, pine * see also:

    Synonyms

    * sapling, seedling

    See also

    * * arboreal

    Verb

    (d)
  • To chase (an animal or person) up a tree.
    • The dog treed the cat.
  • To place upon a tree; to fit with a tree; to stretch upon a tree.
    • to tree a boot

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