The difference between Neck and Throat

When used as nouns, neck means the part of body connecting the head and the trunk found in humans and some animals, whereas throat means the front part of the neck.

When used as verbs, neck means to hang by the neck, whereas throat means to utter in or with the throat.


check bellow for the other definitions of Neck and Throat

  1. Neck as a noun (anatomy):

    The part of body connecting the head and the trunk found in humans and some animals.

  2. Neck as a noun:

    The corresponding part in some other anatomical contexts.

  3. Neck as a noun:

    The part of a shirt, dress etc., which fits a person's neck.

  4. Neck as a noun:

    The tapered part of a bottle toward the opening.

  5. Neck as a noun (botany):

    The slender tubelike extension atop an archegonium, through which the sperm swim to reach the egg.

  6. Neck as a noun (music):

    The extension of any stringed instrument on which a fingerboard is mounted

  7. Neck as a noun:

    A long narrow tract of land projecting from the main body, or a narrow tract connecting two larger tracts.

  8. Neck as a noun (engineering):

    A reduction in size near the end of an object, formed by a groove around it.

    Examples:

    "a neck forming the journal of a shaft"

  9. Neck as a noun:

    The constriction between the root and crown of a tooth.

  10. Neck as a noun (architecture):

    The gorgerin of a capital.

  11. Neck as a noun (firearms):

    The small part of a gun between the chase and the swell of the muzzle.

  12. Neck as a noun (informal, MLE, slang):

    A falsehood; a lie.

  1. Neck as a verb:

    To hang by the neck; strangle; kill, eliminate

    Examples:

    "Go neck yourself."

  2. Neck as a verb (chiefly, US):

    To make love; to intently kiss or cuddle; to canoodle.

    Examples:

    "Alan and Betty were necking in the back of a car when Betty's dad caught them."

  3. Neck as a verb:

    To drink rapidly.

  4. Neck as a verb:

    To decrease in diameter.

  1. Throat as a noun:

    The front part of the neck.

    Examples:

    "The wild pitch bounced and hit the catcher in the throat."

  2. Throat as a noun:

    The gullet or windpipe.

    Examples:

    "As I swallowed I felt something strange in my throat."

  3. Throat as a noun:

    A narrow opening in a vessel.

    Examples:

    "The water leaked out from the throat of the bottle."

  4. Throat as a noun:

    Station throat.

  5. Throat as a noun:

    The part of a chimney between the gathering, or portion of the funnel which contracts in ascending, and the flue.

    Examples:

    "rfquotek Gwilt"

  6. Throat as a noun (nautical):

    The upper fore corner of a boom-and-gaff sail, or of a staysail.

  7. Throat as a noun (nautical):

    That end of a gaff which is next to the mast.

  8. Throat as a noun (nautical):

    The angle where the arm of an anchor is joined to the shank.

    Examples:

    "rfquotek Totten"

  9. Throat as a noun (shipbuilding):

    The inside of a timber knee.

  10. Throat as a noun (botany):

    The orifice of a tubular organ; the outer end of the tube of a monopetalous corolla; the faux, or fauces.

  1. Throat as a verb (now, uncommon):

    To utter in or with the throat.

    Examples:

    "to throat threats"

    "rfquotek Chapman"

  2. Throat as a verb (informal):

    To take into the throat. .}}

  3. Throat as a verb (UK, dialect, obsolete):

    To mow (beans, etc.) in a direction against their bending.