English Online Dictionary. What means throat? What does throat mean?
English
Alternative forms
- throate, throte (all obsolete)
Etymology
From Middle English throte, from Old English þrote, þrota, þrotu (“throat”), 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)”) (etymology 2), Icelandic þroti (“swelling”), Swedish trut.
Pronunciation
- (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /ˈθɹəʊt/
- (General American) IPA(key): /ˈθɹoʊt/
- Rhymes: -əʊt
Noun
throat (plural throats)
- The front part of the neck.
- The gullet or windpipe.
- A narrow opening in a vessel.
- Station throat.
- The part of a chimney between the gathering, or portion of the funnel which contracts in ascending, and the flue.
- (nautical) The upper fore corner of a boom-and-gaff sail, or of a staysail.
- (nautical) That end of a gaff which is next to the mast.
- (nautical) The angle where the arm of an anchor is joined to the shank.
- (shipbuilding) The inside of a timber knee.
- (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
- (antonym(s) of "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)
- (now uncommon) To utter in or with the throat.
- to throat threats
- (informal) To take into the throat. (Compare deepthroat.)
- (UK, 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, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.
- “throat”, in The Century Dictionary […], New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911, →OCLC.