Neck vs. Nick — What's the Difference?

The neck is the part of the body on many vertebrates that connects the head with the torso and provides the mobility and movements of the head. The structures of the human neck are anatomically grouped into four compartments; vertebral, visceral and two vascular compartments.

Nick is a masculine given name. It is also often encountered as a short form (hypocorism) of the given names Nicholas, Nicola, Nicolas, Nikola, Nicolai or Nicodemus.

The part of a person's or animal's body connecting the head to the rest of the body

A small cut or notch

A narrow connecting or end part of something.

Prison

The length of a horse's head and neck as a measure of its lead in a race

The junction between the floor and side walls in a squash court or real tennis court.

(of two people) kiss and caress amorously

Make a nick or nicks in

Swallow (something, especially a drink)

Steal

Form a narrowed part at a particular point when subjected to tension

Arrest (someone)

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

Go quickly or surreptitiously

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

A shallow notch, cut, or indentation on an edge or a surface

The part of a tooth between the crown and root.

Chiefly British Slang A prison or police station.

The part of a garment around or near the neck.

(Printing) A groove down the side of a piece of type used to ensure that it is correctly placed.

A relatively narrow elongation, projection, or connecting part

To cut a nick or notch in.

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

To cut into and wound slightly

(Printing) See beard.

To cut short; check

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

(Slang) To cheat, especially by overcharging.

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

To steal.

A narrow margin

To arrest.

To kiss and caress amorously.

A small cut in a surface.

To strangle or decapitate (a fowl).

A particular place or point considered as marked by a nick; the exact point or critical moment.

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

A notch cut crosswise in the shank of a type, to assist a compositor in placing it properly in the stick, and in distribution.

The corresponding part in some other anatomical contexts.

Senses connoting something small.

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

(cricket) A small deflection of the ball off the edge of the bat, often going to the wicket-keeper for a catch.

The tapered part of a bottle toward the opening.

(genetics) One of the single-stranded DNA segments produced during nick translation.

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

The point where the wall of the court meets the floor.

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

Often in the expressions in bad nick and in good nick: condition, state.

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

A police station or prison.

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

(Internet) nickname

The constriction between the root and crown of a tooth.

(archaic) A nix or water]] spirit.

(architecture) The gorgerin of a capital.

(transitive) To make a nick or notch in; to cut or scratch in a minor way.

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

(transitive) To make ragged or uneven, as by cutting nicks or notches in; to deface, to mar.

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

To make a crosscut or cuts on the underside of (the tail of a horse, in order to make the animal carry it higher).

(figurative) A person's life.

To fit into or suit, as by a correspondence of nicks; to tally with.

A falsehood; a lie.

To hit at, or in, the nick; to touch rightly; to strike at the precise point or time.

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

To hit the ball with the edge of the bat and produce a fine deflection.

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

To throw or turn up (a number when playing dice); to hit upon.

To drink rapidly.

To make a cut at the side of the face.

To decrease in diameter.

To steal.

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.

To arrest.

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

To give or call (someone) by a nickname; to style.

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.

An evil spirit of the waters.

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

A notch cut into something

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.

A broken or indented place in any edge or surface; as, nicks in a china plate; a nick in the table top.

To kiss and caress amorously.

A particular point or place considered as marked by a nick; the exact point or critical moment.

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

To make a nick or nicks in; to notch; to keep count of or upon by nicks; as, to nick a stick, tally, etc.

A narrow elongated projecting strip of land

To mar; to deface; to make ragged, as by cutting nicks or notches in; to create a nick{2} in, deliberately or accidentally; as, to nick the rim of a teacup.

A cut of meat from the neck of an animal

To suit or fit into, as by a correspondence of nicks; to tally with.

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

To hit at, or in, the nick; to touch rightly; to strike at the precise point or time.

Kiss, embrace, or fondle with sexual passion;

To make a cross cut or cuts on the under side of (the tail of a horse, in order to make him carry it higher).

To nickname; to style.

An impression in a surface (as made by a blow)

A small cut

Cut slightly, with a razor;

Cut a nick into

Divide or reset the tail muscles of;

Mate successfully; of livestock