THROAT
\θɹˈə͡ʊt], \θɹˈəʊt], \θ_ɹ_ˈəʊ_t]\
Definitions of THROAT
- 2011 - English Dictionary Database
- 2006 - WordNet 3.0
- 2010 - New Age Dictionary Database
- 1913 - Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary
- 1919 - The Winston Simplified Dictionary
- 1898 - Warner's pocket medical dictionary of today.
- 1899 - The american dictionary of the english language.
- 1894 - The Clarendon dictionary
- 1919 - The Concise Standard Dictionary of the English Language
- 1898 - American pocket medical dictionary
- 1916 - Appleton's medical dictionary
- 1871 - The Cabinet Dictionary of the English Language
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a passage resembling a throat in shape or function; "the throat of the vase" or"the throat of a chimney"
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an opening in the vamp of a shoe at the instep
By DataStellar Co., Ltd
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an opening in the vamp of a shoe at the instep
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a passage resembling a throat in shape or function; "the throat of the vase"; "the throat of a chimney";
By Princeton University
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The part of the neck in front of, or ventral to, the vertebral column.
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A contracted portion of a vessel, or of a passage way; as, the throat of a pitcher or vase.
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The part of a chimney between the gathering, or portion of the funnel which contracts in ascending, and the flue.
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The upper fore corner of a boom-and-gaff sail, or of a staysail.
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That end of a gaff which is next the mast.
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The angle where the arm of an anchor is joined to the shank.
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The inside of a timber knee.
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The orifice of a tubular organ; the outer end of the tube of a monopetalous corolla; the faux, or fauces.
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To utter in the throat; to mutter; as, to throat threats.
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To mow, as beans, in a direction against their bending.
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Hence, the passage through it to the stomach and lungs; the pharynx; - sometimes restricted to the fauces.
By Oddity Software
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The part of the neck in front of, or ventral to, the vertebral column.
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A contracted portion of a vessel, or of a passage way; as, the throat of a pitcher or vase.
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The part of a chimney between the gathering, or portion of the funnel which contracts in ascending, and the flue.
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The upper fore corner of a boom-and-gaff sail, or of a staysail.
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That end of a gaff which is next the mast.
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The angle where the arm of an anchor is joined to the shank.
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The inside of a timber knee.
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The orifice of a tubular organ; the outer end of the tube of a monopetalous corolla; the faux, or fauces.
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To utter in the throat; to mutter; as, to throat threats.
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To mow, as beans, in a direction against their bending.
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Hence, the passage through it to the stomach and lungs; the pharynx; - sometimes restricted to the fauces.
By Noah Webster.
By William Dodge Lewis, Edgar Arthur Singer
By William R. Warner
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The forepart of the neck, in which are the gullet and windpipe: an entrance: a narrow part of anything.
By Daniel Lyons
By William Hand Browne, Samuel Stehman Haldeman
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The part of the neck containing the air - passages; the esophagus or the windpipe; an inlet; orifice.
By James Champlin Fernald
By Willam Alexander Newman Dorland
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The cavity extending from the arch of the palate to the glottis and the superior opening of the esophagus; also popularly the front of the neck. [Ang.-Sax.]
By Smith Ely Jelliffe
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n. [Anglo-Saxon, German] The portion of the neck anterior to the spinal column, with its , cavities or passages ;-the passage through which any thing is ejected upward from the lungs or stomach ;-any thing long and deep ;-main road of any place;- opening; entrance;-in seaman’s language, the curved end of a gaff which fits round the mast.