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Examples:neck (as in "save one's neck", i.e. one's life)—earthen jar with long neck—round neck (of pull-over garment, e.g. T-shirt)—(fig.) with one's neck outstretched in expectation—visceral arch (gill-bearing arch or its vestigial crease on sides of neck of vertebrates)—stand on tiptoe and crane one's neck (idiom); fig. to yearn for sth—chain mail hung from head protect neck—bind a person's upper body, with arms tied behind the back and rope looped around the neck—only interested in saving one's neck—neck feathers of a bird (old)—trapezius muscle (of the upper back and neck)—lit. whoever hung the bell on the tiger's neck must untie it (idiom); fig. whoever started the trouble should end it—the seven cervical vertebrae in the neck of humans and most mammals—sanxian, large family of 3-stringed plucked musical instruments, with snakeskin covered wooden soundbox and long neck, used in folk music, opera and Chinese orchestra—extend one's neck in preparation for execution [idiom.]— |