throat
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈθɹəʊt/
ipa: /ˈθɹoʊt/
rhymes: -əʊt
Forms: form: throats
form: throate
form: throte
Etymology: From Middle English throte, from Old English þrote, þrota, þrotu (“throat”), from Proto-West Germanic *þrotu, from Proto-Germanic *þrutō (“throat”), from Proto-Indo-European *trud- (“to swell, become stiff”). Cognate with Dutch strot (“throat”), German Drossel (“throttle, gorge of game (wild animals)”), Swedish trut, Icelandic þroti (“swelling”).
Senses: examples: text: The wild pitch bounced and hit the catcher in the throat.
text: Serene, smiling, enigmatic, she faced him with no fear whatever showing in her dark eyes.[…]She put back a truant curl from her forehead where it had sought egress to the world, and looked him full in the face now, drawing a deep breath which caused the round of her bosom to lift the lace at her throat.
ref: 1910, Emerson Hough, chapter 1, in The Purchase Price:
text: KANG: When I take this ship, I'll have Kirk's head stuffed and hung on his cabin wall. // MARA: They will kill us before we can act. // KANG: No, they wish to question us, learn our strength, our plans. They never will. // MARA: We are forty against four hundred. // KLINGON: Four thousand throats may be cut in one night by a running man. // KANG: Patience. Vigilance. They will make a mistake. Capture of the Enterprise will give us knowledge to end this war quickly.
ref: 1969, Jerome Bixby, Star Trek episode “Day of the Dove”, Culver City, Calif.: Desilu Studios; distributed by Paramount Television, published 1969:
text: The tale is bookended by battles – faces meatily pummelled, bones crunchily broken and throats spurtingly sliced as offstage conflicts are placed centre-screen.
ref: 2015 October 4, Mark Kermode, “Macbeth review – a spittle-flecked Shakespearean war film”, in The Observer:
glosses: The front part of the neck.
examples: text: As I swallowed I felt something strange in my throat.
glosses: The gullet or windpipe.
examples: text: The water leaked out from the throat of the bottle.
glosses: A narrow opening in a vessel.
topics: rail-transport
railways
transport
glosses: Short for station throat
examples: text: By the throat of a Chimney, I mean the lower extremity of its canal, where it unites with the upper part of its open Fire-place.
ref: 1796, Benjamin Count of Rumford, “Of Chimney Fire-places”, in Essays, Political, Economical and Philosophical, page 332:
text: This course of bricks will be upon a level for instance, higher than this part, otherwise the with the top of the door-way left for the chimney throat of the chimney will not be properly form.
ref: 1816, Encyclopaedia Perthensis:
glosses: The part of a chimney between the gathering, or portion of the funnel which contracts in ascending, and the flue.
topics: nautical
transport
glosses: The upper fore corner of a boom-and-gaff sail, or of a staysail.
topics: nautical
transport
glosses: That end of a gaff which is next to the mast.
examples: text: The shoe iron must then become a mere loose piece of iron, and be found, on the heaving up of the anchor, to have lain on the surface of the soil between it and immediately under the throat of the anchor
ref: 1868, “Glover's Safety Anchors”, in Hunt's Yachting Magazine:
topics: nautical
transport
glosses: The angle where the arm of an anchor is joined to the shank.
topics: business
manufacturing
shipbuilding
glosses: The inside of a timber knee.
topics: biology
botany
natural-sciences
glosses: The orifice of a tubular organ; the outer end of the tube of a monopetalous corolla; the faux, or fauces.
Synonyms: sense: gullet
word: esophagus
sense: gullet
word: gullet
sense: gullet
word: oesophagus
sense: windpipe
word: trachea
sense: windpipe
word: windpipe
sense: narrow opening in a vessel
word: neck
sense: narrow opening in a vessel
english: of a bottle
translation: of a bottle
word: bottleneck
Derived terms: sense: Terms derived from throat (noun)
word: at someone's throat
sense: Terms derived from throat (noun)
word: barbthroat
sense: Terms derived from throat (noun)
word: black-throat
sense: Terms derived from throat (noun)
word: blackthroat
sense: Terms derived from throat (noun)
word: bluethroat
sense: Terms derived from throat (noun)
word: bone in the throat
sense: Terms derived from throat (noun)
word: bring a lump to someone's throat
sense: Terms derived from throat (noun)
word: clear one's throat
sense: Terms derived from throat (noun)
word: clergyman's sore throat
sense: Terms derived from throat (noun)
word: clergyman's throat
sense: Terms derived from throat (noun)
word: climb down someone's throat
sense: Terms derived from throat (noun)
word: cut one's own throat
sense: Terms derived from throat (noun)
word: cut someone's throat
sense: Terms derived from throat (noun)
word: cut throat
sense: Terms derived from throat (noun)
word: cut-throat
sense: Terms derived from throat (noun)
word: cutthroat
sense: Terms derived from throat (noun)
word: cut-throat razor
sense: Terms derived from throat (noun)
word: dapple-throat
sense: Terms derived from throat (noun)
word: deepthroat
sense: Terms derived from throat (noun)
word: deep throat
sense: Terms derived from throat (noun)
word: deep-throat
sense: Terms derived from throat (noun)
word: Deep Throat
sense: Terms derived from throat (noun)
word: firethroat
sense: Terms derived from throat (noun)
word: force down someone's throat
sense: Terms derived from throat (noun)
word: force something down someone's throat
sense: Terms derived from throat (noun)
word: forethroat
sense: Terms derived from throat (noun)
word: frog in one's throat
sense: Terms derived from throat (noun)
word: full-throated
sense: Terms derived from throat (noun)
word: give one the lie in one's throat
sense: Terms derived from throat (noun)
word: give someone the lie in their throat
sense: Terms derived from throat (noun)
word: go down the wrong throat
sense: Terms derived from throat (noun)
word: go for the throat
sense: Terms derived from throat (noun)
word: grab life by the throat
sense: Terms derived from throat (noun)
word: have a frog in one's throat
sense: Terms derived from throat (noun)
word: jump down someone's throat
sense: Terms derived from throat (noun)
word: leap down someone's throat
sense: Terms derived from throat (noun)
word: lie in one's throat
sense: Terms derived from throat (noun)
word: lump in one's throat
sense: Terms derived from throat (noun)
word: lump to one's throat
sense: Terms derived from throat (noun)
word: one's belly thinks one's throat has been cut
sense: Terms derived from throat (noun)
word: one's heart in one's throat
sense: Terms derived from throat (noun)
word: one's stomach thinks one's throat has been cut
sense: Terms derived from throat (noun)
word: one-throat
sense: Terms derived from throat (noun)
word: one throat to choke
sense: Terms derived from throat (noun)
word: ram something down someone's throat
sense: Terms derived from throat (noun)
word: red-throat
sense: Terms derived from throat (noun)
word: redthroat
sense: Terms derived from throat (noun)
word: rubythroat
sense: Terms derived from throat (noun)
word: shove something down someone's throat
sense: Terms derived from throat (noun)
word: slit someone's throat
sense: Terms derived from throat (noun)
word: sore throat
sense: Terms derived from throat (noun)
word: spot-throat
sense: Terms derived from throat (noun)
word: starthroat
sense: Terms derived from throat (noun)
word: station throat
sense: Terms derived from throat (noun)
word: stick in one's throat
sense: Terms derived from throat (noun)
word: stick in someone's throat
sense: Terms derived from throat (noun)
word: stipplethroat
sense: Terms derived from throat (noun)
word: strep throat
sense: Terms derived from throat (noun)
word: tear-throat
sense: Terms derived from throat (noun)
word: throatache
sense: Terms derived from throat (noun)
word: throatal
sense: Terms derived from throat (noun)
word: throat back
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word: throatband
sense: Terms derived from throat (noun)
word: throat-boll
sense: Terms derived from throat (noun)
word: throat-bolt
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word: throat brail
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word: throat distemper
sense: Terms derived from throat (noun)
word: throater
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word: throat fucking
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word: throatful
sense: Terms derived from throat (noun)
word: throat goat
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word: throat halyard
sense: Terms derived from throat (noun)
word: throatlatch
sense: Terms derived from throat (noun)
word: throat latch
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word: throatless
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word: throatlet
sense: Terms derived from throat (noun)
word: throat lozenge
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word: throat microphone
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word: throat paint
sense: Terms derived from throat (noun)
word: throatplate
sense: Terms derived from throat (noun)
word: throat singing
sense: Terms derived from throat (noun)
word: throat sweet
sense: Terms derived from throat (noun)
word: throat sweetbread
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word: throatward
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word: throatwort
sense: Terms derived from throat (noun)
word: throaty
sense: Terms derived from throat (noun)
word: thrussy
sense: Terms derived from throat (noun)
word: whitethroat
sense: Terms derived from throat (noun)
word: yellowthroat
Related terms: throttle