What part of speech is neck?

Neck can be categorized as a noun and a verb.

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Parts of speech

  • 1. neck is a verb, present, 1st person singular of neck (infinitive).
  • 2. neck is a verb (infinitive).
  • 3. neck is a noun, singular of necks.

Inflections

Verb

Noun

What does neck mean?

Definitions

Verb

neck - kiss, embrace, or fondle with sexual passion; "The couple were necking in the back seat of the car"

Noun

neck - the part of an organism (human or animal) that connects the head to the rest of the body; "he admired her long graceful neck"; "the horse won by a neck"
neck - an opening in a garment for the neck of the wearer; a part of the garment near the wearer's neck
neck - a cut of meat from the neck of an animal
neck - a narrow part of an artifact that resembles a neck in position or form; "the banjo had a long neck"; "the bottle had a wide neck"
neck - a narrow elongated projecting strip of land

Examples of neck

#   Sentence  
1. noun He admired her long graceful neck.
2. noun The horse won by a neck.
3. noun The banjo had a long neck.
4. noun The bottle had a wide neck.
5. noun As a child in the 50's I had a lot of glandular problems and they treated it with radiation therapy (primitive at best!) and stopped when a lesion on my neck started enlarging--they said it was not CA but stopped the treatments....
6. noun The back of her neck looks like a pack of hot dogs.
7. noun I had a couple of hickies on my neck the day after and the guys all wanted to know if those were shuttle burns.
8. noun Arthritis of the spine, neck, waist and other joints will be removed.
9. noun Gout in the spine, neck, hands and waist will be lost.
10. noun I was beside the bear's head and I stabbed it with an upper cut below the jaw in the neck a couple of times."
11. noun I'm assuming it's to scare off predators / like how they will puff up their neck spikes to make them look bigger to predators or enemies.
12. noun only once it looked like my male cat was biting at her neck and then her stomach and she was meowing fairly loud and hissed once then he backed off and now they are fine.
13. noun he has been "biting" at her neck and stomach previously while they play without her meowing or anything so im wondering if he went a little to far that one time.
14. noun Dr Greenwalt fixed my neck from a snowboard injury and was way more effective that a regular doctor.
15. noun My neck is fixed!.
Sentence  
noun
He admired her long graceful neck.
The horse won by a neck.
The banjo had a long neck.
The bottle had a wide neck.
As a child in the 50's I had a lot of glandular problems and they treated it with radiation therapy (primitive at best!) and stopped when a lesion on my neck started enlarging--they said it was not CA but stopped the treatments....
The back of her neck looks like a pack of hot dogs.
I had a couple of hickies on my neck the day after and the guys all wanted to know if those were shuttle burns.
Arthritis of the spine, neck, waist and other joints will be removed.
Gout in the spine, neck, hands and waist will be lost.
I was beside the bear's head and I stabbed it with an upper cut below the jaw in the neck a couple of times."
I'm assuming it's to scare off predators / like how they will puff up their neck spikes to make them look bigger to predators or enemies.
only once it looked like my male cat was biting at her neck and then her stomach and she was meowing fairly loud and hissed once then he backed off and now they are fine.
he has been "biting" at her neck and stomach previously while they play without her meowing or anything so im wondering if he went a little to far that one time.
Dr Greenwalt fixed my neck from a snowboard injury and was way more effective that a regular doctor.
My neck is fixed!.

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