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say it: nek
neck is a noun and verb meaning "the part of an organism (human or animal) that connects the head to the rest of the body". It is pronounced /ˈnɛk/ — nek. It carries 6 recorded senses.
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”
a narrow elongated projecting strip of land
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”
Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.
Definitions, synonyms and semantic relations for neck come from Princeton University’s WordNet. The pronunciation comes from the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary. Commonness is measured against a corpus of everyday English. Full sources and licences.