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Princeton's WordNet

  1. throat, pharynxnoun

    the passage to the stomach and lungs; in the front part of the neck below the chin and above the collarbone

  2. throatnoun

    an opening in the vamp of a shoe at the instep

  3. throatnoun

    a passage resembling a throat in shape or function

    "the throat of the vase"; "the throat of a chimney";

  4. throatnoun

    the part of an animal's body that corresponds to a person's throat

Wiktionary

  1. throatnoun

    The front part of the neck.

    The wild pitch bounced and hit the catcher in the throat.

  2. throatnoun

    The gullet or windpipe.

    As I swallowed I felt something strange in my throat.

  3. throatnoun

    A narrow opening in a vessel.

    The water leaked out from the throat of the bottle.

  4. throatnoun

    station throat

  5. Etymology: From throte, from þrote, þrota, þrotu, from þrutō, from trud-. Cognate with strot, Droß, þroti.

Samuel Johnson's Dictionary

  1. Throatnoun

    Etymology: ðrote, ðrota , Saxon.

    The gold, I give thee, will I melt and pour
    Down thy ill-uttering throat. William Shakespeare.

    Wherefore could I not pronounce, amen?
    I had most need of blessing, and amen
    Stuck in my throat. William Shakespeare, Macbeth.

    Her honour, and her courage try’d,
    Calm and intrepid in the very throat
    Of sulphurous war, on Teniers dreadful field. James Thomson.

    These bred up amongst the Englishmen, when they become kern, are made more fit to cut their throats. Edmund Spenser.

    A trumpeter that was made prisoner, when the soldiers were about to cut his throat, says, why should you kill a man that kills nobody? Roger L'Estrange.

Wikipedia

  1. Throat

    In vertebrate anatomy, the throat is the front part of the neck, internally positioned in front of the vertebrae. It contains the pharynx and larynx. An important section of it is the epiglottis, separating the esophagus from the trachea (windpipe), preventing food and drinks being inhaled into the lungs. The throat contains various blood vessels, pharyngeal muscles, the nasopharyngeal tonsil, the tonsils, the palatine uvula, the trachea, the esophagus, and the vocal cords. Mammal throats consist of two bones, the hyoid bone and the clavicle. The "throat" is sometimes thought to be synonymous for the fauces.It works with the mouth, ears and nose, as well as a number of other parts of the body. Its pharynx is connected to the mouth, allowing speech to occur, and food and liquid to pass down the throat. It is joined to the nose by the nasopharynx at the top of the throat, and to the ear by its Eustachian tube. The throat's trachea carries inhaled air to the bronchi of the lungs. The esophagus carries food through the throat to the stomach. Adenoids and tonsils help prevent infection and are composed of lymph tissue. The larynx contains vocal cords, the epiglottis (preventing food/liquid inhalation), and an area known as the subglottic larynx, in children it is the narrowest section of the upper part of the throat. The Jugulum is a low part of the throat, located slightly above the breast. The term Jugulum is reflected both by the internal and external jugular veins, which pass through the Jugulum.

ChatGPT

  1. throat

    A throat is a part of the body located at the front of the neck which serves as the passageway for air to the lungs and food to the digestive tract. It consists of the pharynx and the larynx, and includes parts responsible for vocalization. It's also often associated with the body's immune response against illness as it contains the tonsils and lymphoid tissues.

Webster Dictionary

  1. Throatnoun

    the part of the neck in front of, or ventral to, the vertebral column

  2. Throatnoun

    hence, the passage through it to the stomach and lungs; the pharynx; -- sometimes restricted to the fauces

  3. Throatnoun

    a contracted portion of a vessel, or of a passage way; as, the throat of a pitcher or vase

  4. Throatnoun

    the part of a chimney between the gathering, or portion of the funnel which contracts in ascending, and the flue

  5. Throatnoun

    the upper fore corner of a boom-and-gaff sail, or of a staysail

  6. Throatnoun

    that end of a gaff which is next the mast

  7. Throatnoun

    the angle where the arm of an anchor is joined to the shank

  8. Throatnoun

    the inside of a timber knee

  9. Throatnoun

    the orifice of a tubular organ; the outer end of the tube of a monopetalous corolla; the faux, or fauces

  10. Throatverb

    to utter in the throat; to mutter; as, to throat threats

  11. Throatverb

    to mow, as beans, in a direction against their bending

Wikidata

  1. Throat

    In vertebrate anatomy, the throat is the anterior part of the neck, in front of the vertebral column. It consists of the pharynx and larynx. An important feature of the throat is the epiglottis, a flap which separates the esophagus from the trachea and prevents inhalation of food or drink. The throat contains various blood vessels, various pharyngeal muscles, the trachea and the esophagus. The hyoid bone and the clavicle are the only bones located in the throat of mammals. It is sometimes considered a synonym for fauces. The jugulum is the lower part of the throat, just above the breast. The term is reflected in the external and internal jugular vein, which pass through this region.

Chambers 20th Century Dictionary

  1. Throat

    thrōt, n. the forepart of the neck, in which are the gullet and windpipe: an entrance: a narrow part of anything: (naut.) the widened and hollowed end of a gaff next the mast—opp. to Peak, the outer end.—ns. Throat′-band, -strap, -latch, a band about the throat; Throat′-bolt, an eye-bolt to which to hook the throat-halyards.—n.pl. Throat′-brails, those which are attached to the gaff for trussing up the sail close to the gaff as well as the mast.—adj. Throat′ed, with a throat of a specified kind.—n.pl. Throat′-hal′yards, those for hoisting the throat of a gaff.—adj. Throat′y, formed in the throat, guttural in sound.—Clergyman's sore throat, an affection commonly arising from too prolonged or powerful exercise of the voice by persons in whom the mucous membrane of the throat is in a relaxed condition; Cut one's own, or another's, throat, to pursue some course ruinous to one's own or to another's interests; Give one the lie in his throat, to accuse one to his face of a lie. [A.S. throte; Dut. strot, Ger. drossel, the throat.]

Dictionary of Nautical Terms

  1. throat

    The widened and hollowed end of a gaff next the mast; opposed to peak, the outer end. Also, the midship portion of the floor-timbers and transoms. The contrary of breech.

Editors Contribution

  1. throat

    A facet of the neck of an animal or human being.

    Men have an Adam's apple within their throat.


    Submitted by MaryC on February 27, 2020  

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  1. Spoken Corpus Frequency

    Rank popularity for the word 'throat' in Spoken Corpus Frequency: #3136

  2. Written Corpus Frequency

    Rank popularity for the word 'throat' in Written Corpus Frequency: #3140

  3. Nouns Frequency

    Rank popularity for the word 'throat' in Nouns Frequency: #1242

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  1. athort

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  1. Chaldean Numerology

    The numerical value of throat in Chaldean Numerology is: 5

  2. Pythagorean Numerology

    The numerical value of throat in Pythagorean Numerology is: 1

Examples of throat in a Sentence

  1. Shahid Jameel:

    If the COVID virus can be controlled in the nose and throat, before it reaches the lungs, it doesn’t become as serious. Innate immunity works at this level, by trying to reduce the viral infection and stop it from getting to the lungs.

  2. Kathy Danke:

    My stomach was in my throat all afternoon, all of a sudden, our Facebook page started getting flooded.

  3. William Schaffner:

    It's not a tickle in your throat. You're not just clearing your throat. It's not just irritated. You're not putting anything out, you're not coughing anything up, the cough is bothersome, it's coming from your breastbone or sternum. and you can tell that your bronchial tubes are inflamed or irritated.

  4. Debra Tate:

    I know for a fact she did not have a premonition — awake or in a dream — that she and Jay would have their throat cut, i checked with all of her living friends. None of her friends had any knowledge of this. Tacky, tacky, tacky. It’s a total fabrication.

  5. Shasta Groene:

    It felt weird being in a house with my dad and his girlfriend with none of my brothers, i was just so alone. He was a truck driver, so it was very seldom that we saw him. But that’s how he paid the bills. I also became really sensitive about my weight and the things that I ate. I think it was a way to punish Shasta Groene. I developed an eating disorder at a very young age. If I ate, I made Shasta Groene throw up. I then started self-harming. I was hiding a lot from my dad. And then he got throat cancer. He almost died from it. So much has happened that I never fully got to heal.

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