Neck vs. Nape: Know the Difference

The part of the body joining the head to the shoulders or trunk.

The back of the neck.

A narrow or constricted area of a bodily structure, as of a bone, that joins its parts; a cervix.

The back part of the neck.

The part of a tooth between the crown and root.

(zoology) The part of a fish or bird immediately behind the head.

The part of a garment around or near the neck.

(obsolete) A tablecloth.

A relatively narrow elongation, projection, or connecting part

Napalm.

(Music) The narrow part along which the strings of an instrument extend to the pegs.

To bombard with napalm.

(Printing) See beard.

The back part of the neck.

(Geology) Solidified lava filling the vent of an extinct volcano.

The back side of the neck

The siphon of a bivalve mollusk, such as a clam.

A narrow margin

To kiss and caress amorously.

To strangle or decapitate (a fowl).

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

The corresponding part in some other anatomical contexts.

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

The tapered part of a bottle toward the opening.

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

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

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

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

The constriction between the root and crown of a tooth.

(architecture) The gorgerin of a capital.

(geology) A volcanic plug, solidified lava filling the vent of an extinct volcano.

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

(figurative) A person's life.

A falsehood; a lie.

To hang by the neck; strangle; kill, eliminate.

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

To drink rapidly.

To decrease in diameter.

The part of an animal which connects the head and the trunk, and which, in man and many other animals, is more slender than the trunk.

Any part of an inanimate object corresponding to or resembling the neck of an animal

A reduction in size near the end of an object, formed by a groove around it; as, a neck forming the journal of a shaft.

The point where the base of the stem of a plant arises from the root.

To reduce the diameter of (an object) near its end, by making a groove around it; - used with down; as, to neck down a shaft.

To kiss and caress amorously.

The part of an organism that connects the head to the rest of the body;

A narrow elongated projecting strip of land

A cut of meat from the neck of an animal

Opening for the neck; the part of a garment near the neck opening

Kiss, embrace, or fondle with sexual passion;