different between nack vs throat

English

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /næk/

Verb

nack (third-person singular simple present nacks, present participle nacking, simple past and past participle nacked)

1. (networking) To acknowledge negatively; to send a NAK signal to.

English

Alternative forms

• throate, throte (all obsolete)

Etymology

From Middle English throte, from Old English þrote, þrota, þrotu (“throat”), from Proto-Germanic *þrut? (“throat”), from Proto-Indo-European *trud- (“to swell, become stiff”). Cognate with Dutch strot (“throat”), German Drossel (“throttle, gorge of game (wild animals)”) (etymology 2), Icelandic þroti (“swelling”), Swedish trut.

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /?????t/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /???o?t/
• Rhymes: -??t

Noun

throat (plural throats)

1. The front part of the neck.
2. The gullet or windpipe.

3. A narrow opening in a vessel.

4. Station throat.
5. The part of a chimney between the gathering, or portion of the funnel which contracts in ascending, and the flue.

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6. (nautical) The upper fore corner of a boom-and-gaff sail, or of a staysail.
7. (nautical) That end of a gaff which is next to the mast.
8. (nautical) The angle where the arm of an anchor is joined to the shank.

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9. (shipbuilding) The inside of a timber knee.
10. (botany) The orifice of a tubular organ; the outer end of the tube of a monopetalous corolla; the faux, or fauces.

Synonyms

• (gullet): esophagus (US), gullet, oesophagus (British)
• (windpipe): trachea, windpipe
• (narrow opening in a vessel): neck, bottleneck (of a bottle)

Antonyms

• (end of a gaff next to the mast): peak

Derived terms

Related terms

• throttle

Translations

Verb

throat (third-person singular simple present throats, present participle throating, simple past and past participle throated)

1. (now uncommon) To utter in or with the throat.
   • 1911, Paul Wilstach, Thais, "the Story of a Sinner who Became a Saint and a Saint who Sinned": A Play in Four Acts, page 17:

     He beat about and pecked the net until his mate was liberated, and, throating a song of gratitude, the bird he freed flew to the sky.

   • 1921, Harry Charles Witwer, The Rubyiat of a Freshman, page 31

     As you know, I have gone in for the more manly athletics here with my visual enthusiasm, throating a nasty tenor on the Glee Club and shaking a vicious hoof on our dancing team. Well, last night the Intercollegiate Shimmy Contest with Goofy ...

   • 2017, Alexis Debary, Arab Nights: Post 9/11 Thriller set in Tunisia (?ISBN):

     Tariq wants to be tactful and refrains from his natural impulse to throat his pain and curse her loudly in French. The girl looks devastated.

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2. (informal) To take into the throat. (Compare deepthroat.)
   • 1995, Kyle Stone, Hot bauds: a selection of steamy BBS writings, Badboy

     The Roman began to throat his rigid flagpole of a mancock, making groaning noises.

   • 2017, Brian Patrick Davis, Songs About Boys (?ISBN):

     His head leaned back, water splashing his face as I throated his solid pipe. Those giant hands found the back of my head as he worked his hips back and forth to pump further and further into my mouth.

3. (Britain, dialect, obsolete) To mow (beans, etc.) in a direction against their bending.

Further reading

• throat on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• Throat (disambiguation) on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• throat in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
• throat in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.