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Throat vs Thought - What's the difference?

throat | thought |

As nouns the difference between throat and thought

is that throat is the front part of the neck while thought is form created in the mind, rather than the forms perceived through the five senses; an instance of thinking.

As verbs the difference between throat and thought

is that throat is to utter in the throat; to mutter while thought is past tense of think.

throat

English

Alternative forms

* (all obsolete)

Noun

(en noun)
  • The front part of the neck.
  • * {{quote-book, year=1910, author=(Emerson Hough)
    • , title= The Purchase Price, chapter=1 , passage=Serene, smiling, enigmatic, she faced him with no fear whatever showing in her dark eyes.
  • The gullet or windpipe.
  • A narrow opening in a vessel.
  • Station throat.
  • The part of a chimney between the gathering, or portion of the funnel which contracts in ascending, and the flue.
    • (Gwilt)
  • (nautical) The upper fore corner of a boom-and-gaff sail, or of a staysail.
  • (nautical) That end of a gaff which is next the mast.
  • (nautical) The angle where the arm of an anchor is joined to the shank.
    • (Totten)
  • (shipbuilding) The inside of a timber knee.
  • (botany) The orifice of a tubular organ; the outer end of the tube of a monopetalous corolla; the faux, or fauces.

    • Synonyms

    * (gullet) esophagus (US), gullet, oesophagus (British) * (windpipe) trachea, windpipe * (narrow opening in a vessel) neck, bottleneck (of a bottle)

    Derived terms

    * clear one's throat * cutthroat * deepthroat * Deep Throat * frog in one's throat * have a frog in one's throat * jump down someone's throat * sore throat * station throat * stick in one's throat * throaty * whitethroat

    Related terms

    * throttle

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • (obsolete) To utter in the throat; to mutter.
    • to throat threats
    (Chapman)
  • (UK, dialect, obsolete) To mow (beans, etc.) in a direction against their bending.

    • External links

    * ("throat" on Wikipedia) * * *

    thought

    English

    Alternative forms

    * (l) (archaic)

    Noun

    (wikipedia thought) (en noun)
  • Form created in the mind, rather than the forms perceived through the five senses; an instance of thinking.
  • *
    • , title=(The Celebrity), chapter=8 , passage=I corralled the judge, and we started off across the fields, in no very mild state of fear of that gentleman's wife, whose vigilance was seldom relaxed. And thus we came by a circuitous route to Mohair, the judge occupied by his own guilty thoughts , and I by others not less disturbing.}}
  • * , chapter=5
    • , title= The Mirror and the Lamp , passage=He was thinking; but the glory of the song, the swell from the great organ, the clustered lights, […], the height and vastness of this noble fane, its antiquity and its strength—all these things seemed to have their part as causes of the thrilling emotion that accompanied his thoughts .}}
  • (uncountable) The process by which such forms arise or are manipulated; thinking.
  • * (Paul Fix)
    • The only reason some people get lost in thought is because it’s unfamiliar territory.
  • A way of thinking (associated with a group, nation or region).

    • Derived terms

    * afterthought * collect one's thoughts * gather one's thoughts * food for thought * on second thoughts * perish the thought * thoughtful * thought leader * thoughtless * thought shower * thoughtlet

    Verb

    (head)
  • (think)