Synonyms of the word

neck

• n. The part of body connecting the head and the trunk found in humans and some animals.
• n. The corresponding part in some other anatomical contexts.
• n. The part of a shirt, dress etc., which fits a person's neck.
• n. The tapered part of a bottle toward the opening.
• n. (botany) The slender tubelike extension atop an archegonium, through which the sperm swim to reach the…
• n. (music) The extension of any stringed instrument on which a fingerboard is mounted.
• n. A long narrow tract of land projecting from the main body, or a narrow tract connecting two larger tracts.
• n. (engineering) A reduction in size near the end of an object, formed by a groove around it.
• n. The constriction between the root and crown of a tooth.
• n. (architecture) The gorgerin of a capital.
• n. (firearms) The small part of a gun between the chase and the swell of the muzzle.
• v. To hang by the neck; strangle; kill, eliminate.
• v. (chiefly US) To make love; to snog; to intently kiss or cuddle.
• v. To drink rapidly.
• v. To decrease in diameter.

cervix

• n. (anatomy) The neck.
• n. The necklike portion of any part, as of the womb.
• n. The lower, narrow portion of the uterus where it joins with the top end of the vagina.

cut

• adj. (participial adjective) Having been cut.
• adj. Reduced.
• adj. Omitted from a literary or musical work.
• adj. (of a gem) Carved into a shape; not raw.
• adj. (cricket, of a shot) Played with a horizontal bat to hit the ball backward of point.
• adj. (bodybuilding) Having muscular definition in which individual groups of muscle fibers stand out among…
• adj. (informal) Circumcised or having been the subject of female genital mutilation.
• adj. (Australia, New Zealand, slang) Emotionally hurt.
• adj. Eliminated from consideration during a recruitment drive.
• adj. Removed from a team roster.
• adj. (New Zealand) Intoxicated as a result of drugs or alcohol.
• n. An opening resulting from cutting.
• n. The act of cutting.
• n. The result of cutting.
• n. A notch, passage, or channel made by cutting or digging; a furrow; a groove.
• n. (specifically) An artificial navigation as distingished from a navigable river.
• n. A share or portion.
• n. (cricket) A batsman's shot played with a swinging motion of the bat, to hit the ball backward of point.
• n. (cricket) Sideways movement of the ball through the air caused by a fast bowler imparting spin to the…
• n. (sports) In lawn tennis, etc., a slanting stroke causing the ball to spin and bound irregularly; also,…
• n. (golf) In a strokeplay competition, the early elimination of those players who have not then attained…
• n. (theater) A passage omitted or to be omitted from a play.
• n. (film) A particular version or edit of a film.
• n. The act or right of dividing a deck of playing cards.
• n. The manner or style a garment etc. is fashioned in.
• n. A slab, especially of meat.
• n. (fencing) An attack made with a chopping motion of the blade, landing with its edge or point.
• n. A deliberate snub, typically a refusal to return a bow or other acknowledgement of acquaintance.
• n. A definable part, such as an individual song, of a recording, particularly of commercial records, audio…
• n. (archaeology) A truncation, a context that represents a moment in time when other archaeological deposits…
• n. A haircut.
• n. (graph theory) The partition of a graph’s vertices into two subgroups.
• n. A string of railway cars coupled together.
• n. An engraved block or plate; the impression from such an engraving.
• n. (obsolete) A common workhorse; a gelding.
• n. (slang, dated) The failure of a college officer or student to be present at any appointed exercise.
• n. A skein of yarn.
• v. (heading, transitive) To incise, to cut into the surface of something.
• v. (intransitive) To admit of incision or severance; to yield to a cutting instrument.
• v. (transitive, heading, social) To separate, remove, reject or reduce.
• v. (intransitive, film, audio, usually as imperative) To cease recording activities.
• v. (transitive, film) To edit a film by selecting takes from original footage.
• v. (transitive, computing) To remove and place in memory for later use.
• v. (intransitive) To enter a queue in the wrong place.
• v. (intransitive) To intersect or cross in such a way as to divide in half or nearly so.
• v. (transitive, cricket) To make the ball spin sideways by running one's fingers down the side of the ball…
• v. (transitive, cricket) To deflect (a bowled ball) to the off, with a chopping movement of the bat.
• v. (intransitive) To change direction suddenly.
• v. (transitive, intransitive) To divide a pack of playing cards into two.
• v. (transitive, slang) To write.
• v. (transitive, slang) To dilute or adulterate a recreational drug.
• v. (transitive) To exhibit (a quality).
• v. (transitive) To stop or disengage.
• v. (sports) To drive (a ball) to one side, as by (in billiards or croquet) hitting it fine with another ball,…

earth

• p.n. Our planet, third out from the Sun; see main entry Earth.
• n. (uncountable) Soil.
• n. (uncountable) Any general rock-based material.
• n. The ground, land (as opposed to the sky or sea).
• n. (Britain) A connection electrically to the earth ((US) ground); on equipment: a terminal connected in…
• n. A fox's home or lair.
• n. The world of our current life (as opposed to heaven or an afterlife).
• n. (alchemy) One of the four basic elements.
• n. (India and Japan) One of the five basic elements.
• n. (Taoism) One of the five basic elements.
• v. (Britain) To connect electrically to the earth.
• v. To bury.
• v. (transitive) To hide, or cause to hide, in the earth; to chase into a burrow or den.
• v. To burrow.

ground

• n. (uncountable) The surface of the Earth, as opposed to the sky or water or underground.
• n. (uncountable) Terrain.
• n. (uncountable) Soil, earth.
• n. (countable) The bottom of a body of water.
• n. Basis, foundation, groundwork, legwork.
• n. Reason, (epistemic) justification, cause.
• n. Background, context, framework, surroundings.
• n. The plain surface upon which the figures of an artistic composition are set.
• n. In sculpture, a flat surface upon which figures are raised in relief.
• n. In point lace, the net of small meshes upon which the embroidered pattern is applied.
• n. In etching, a gummy substance spread over the surface of a metal to be etched, to prevent the acid from…
• n. (architecture, chiefly in the plural) One of the pieces of wood, flush with the plastering, to which mouldings…
• n. (countable) A soccer stadium.
• n. (electricity, Canada and US) An electrical conductor connected to the ground.
• n. (electricity, Canada and US) A level of electrical potential used as a zero reference.
• n. (countable, cricket) The area of grass on which a match is played (a cricket field); the entire arena…
• n. (music) A composition in which the bass, consisting of a few bars of independent notes, is continually…
• n. (music) The tune on which descants are raised; the plain song.
• n. The pit of a theatre.
• v. (US) To connect (an electrical conductor or device) to a ground.
• v. (transitive) To punish, especially a child or teenager, by forcing him/her to stay at home and/or give…
• v. (transitive) To forbid (an aircraft or pilot) to fly.
• v. To give a basic education in a particular subject; to instruct in elements or first principles.
• v. (baseball) to hit a ground ball; to hit a ground ball which results in an out. Compare fly (verb(regular))…
• v. (cricket) (of a batsman) to place his bat, or part of his body, on the ground behind the popping crease…
• v. (intransitive) To run aground; to strike the bottom and remain fixed.
• v. To found; to fix or set, as on a foundation, reason, or principle; to furnish a ground for; to fix firmly.
• v. (fine arts) To cover with a ground, as a copper plate for etching, or as paper or other materials with…
• v. To improve or focus the mental or emotional state of.
• v. simple past tense and past participle of grind.
• adj. Crushed, or reduced to small particles.
• adj. Processed by grinding.

land

• n. The part of Earth which is not covered by oceans or other bodies of water.
• n. Real estate or landed property; a partitioned and measurable area which is owned and on which buildings…
• n. A country or region.
• n. A person's country of origin and/or homeplace; homeland.
• n. The soil, in respect to its nature or quality for farming.
• n. A general country, state, or territory.
• n. (often in combination) realm, domain.
• n. (agriculture) The ground left unploughed between furrows; any of several portions into which a field is…
• n. (Ireland, colloquial) A fright.
• n. (electronics) A conducting area on a board or chip which can be used for connecting wires.
• n. In a compact disc or similar recording medium, an area of the medium which does not have pits.
• n. (travel) The non-airline portion of an itinerary. Hotel, tours, cruises, etc.
• n. (obsolete) The ground or floor.
• n. (nautical) The lap of the strakes in a clinker-built boat; the lap of plates in an iron vessel; called…
• n. In any surface prepared with indentations, perforations, or grooves, that part of the surface which is…
• v. (intransitive) To descend to a surface, especially from the air.
• v. (dated) To alight, to descend from a vehicle.
• v. (intransitive) To come into rest.
• v. (intransitive) To arrive at land, especially a shore, or a dock, from a body of water.
• v. (transitive) To bring to land.
• v. (transitive) To acquire; to secure.
• v. (transitive) To deliver.
• adj. Of or relating to land.
• adj. Residing or growing on land.
• n. lant; urine.

opening

• v. present participle of open.
• n. An act or instance of making or becoming open.
• n. Something that is open.
• n. An act or instance of beginning.
• n. Something that is a beginning.
• n. A vacant position, especially in an array.
• n. An opportunity, as in a competitive activity.
• adj. (cricket) describing the first period of play, usually up to the fall of the first wicket; describing…

pet

• n. An animal kept as a companion.
• n. (by extension) Something kept as a companion, including inanimate objects. (pet rock, pet plant, etc.).
• n. One who is excessively loyal to a superior.
• n. Any person or animal especially cherished and indulged; a darling.
• v. (transitive) To stroke or fondle (an animal).
• v. (transitive, informal) To stroke or fondle (another person) amorously.
• v. (intransitive, informal) Of two or more people, to stroke and fondle one another amorously.
• v. (dated, transitive) To treat as a pet; to fondle; to indulge.
• v. (archaic, intransitive) To be a pet.
• adj. Favourite; cherished.
• adj. Kept or treated as a pet.
• n. A fit of petulance, a sulk, arising from the impression that one has been offended or slighted.
• n. Abbreviation of petition.
• n. (Geordie) A term of endearment usually applied to women and children.