What's the difference between heck and neck?

Heck


Definition:

  • (n.) The bolt or latch of a door.
  • (n.) A rack for cattle to feed at.
  • (n.) A door, especially one partly of latticework; -- called also heck door.
  • (n.) A latticework contrivance for catching fish.
  • (n.) An apparatus for separating the threads of warps into sets, as they are wound upon the reel from the bobbins, in a warping machine.
  • (n.) A bend or winding of a stream.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) It might not work, heck it probably won’t work, but something had to change in the Knicks organization.
  • (2) But it seems a heck of a lot of money for just 54 days in post and after getting things so badly wrong."
  • (3) This could prevent a person from taking over if a car loses control, making it “even more important that the details of any accidents be made public so people know what the heck’s going on”.
  • (4) "It's a heck of a lot of money," said the Vermont senator, Bernie Sanders, who is an independent.
  • (5) Guardian staff JamieJackson 22 April 2014 10:48am That's what we're told on a consistent basis: that there is a heck of amount of money available if needed.
  • (6) "Heck, you folks even get Fozzie's jokes, but it was the great impresario Lord Lew Grade who gave us our first big break ... and we're forever grateful to him and to everyone here in England."
  • (7) Zito is looking for that double play to get the heck out of the inning, but is gifted a pop to left that shortstop Brandon Crawford is out to collect.
  • (8) Heck, maybe these early season struggles were the result of the Curse of the Orange Uniforms .
  • (9) An epizootic of focal epithelial hyperplasia (FEH) or Morbus Heck in a pygmy chimpanzee (Pan paniscus) colony is described.
  • (10) Game five's mean a heck of a lot in North American series, and this one is no different.
  • (11) If a misfiring Manchester City can be a goal away from the final, why the heck not?
  • (12) Better coordination of all teacher training routes will have to come, with some sort of middle tier at a local level to ensure supply and quality.” Husbands agrees: “You could get a heck of a long way if you went down the route of school-university alliances.
  • (13) Updated at 1.24am GMT 1.16am GMT Predictions please That is one heck of an act to follow, let me tell ya.
  • (14) Its amino acid composition and N-terminal sequence agree well with results derived from the sequence of the VRS gene [Heck, J.D., & Hatfield, G.W.
  • (15) The disorders mentioned include: eczematous processes, rosacea-like dermatitis, steroid rosacea, acne, especially the diagnosis and therapy of cystic acne, psoriasis, atopic dermatitis, viral infection (Heck's disease) and circumscribed scleroderma versus systemic sclerosis and hemiatrophy of the face.
  • (16) Heck, if the Giants could do it a year ago, why not these Dodgers, who have even better pitching than San Francisco did, not to mention lineup that could wipe the floor with Buster Posey and his buddies on the Bay.
  • (17) The occurrence of focal epithelial hyperplasia (Heck's Disease) in a 12-year-old Mexican-American female is presented.
  • (18) Heck, Davidson even won Edinburgh Central, a constituency where previously the Tory candidate had come fourth.
  • (19) Maybe she lingered over the first chart in the book: That's a heck of a chart.
  • (20) You don't have to approve the way he went about it, heck this writer doesn't approve of the way he went about it, but LeBron James has won his first ring, and there's a good chance it's not going to be his last.

Neck


Definition:

  • (n.) 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.
  • (n.) Any part of an inanimate object corresponding to or resembling the neck of an animal
  • (n.) The long slender part of a vessel, as a retort, or of a fruit, as a gourd.
  • (n.) A long narrow tract of land projecting from the main body, or a narrow tract connecting two larger tracts.
  • (n.) That part of a violin, guitar, or similar instrument, which extends from the head to the body, and on which is the finger board or fret board.
  • (n.) 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.
  • (n.) the point where the base of the stem of a plant arises from the root.
  • (v. t.) 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.
  • (v. t. & i.) To kiss and caress amorously.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) This study was undertaken to determine whether the survival of Hispanic patients with squamous cell carcinoma of the head and neck was different from that of Anglo-American patients.
  • (2) Three of the patients had had fractures of the femoral neck.
  • (3) An association of cyclophosphamide, fluorouracil and methotrexate already employed with success against solid tumours in other sites was used in the treatment of 62 patients with advanced tumours of the head and neck.
  • (4) Currently, photodynamic therapy is under FDA-approved clinical investigational trials in the treatment of tumors of the skin, bronchus, esophagus, bladder, head and neck, and of gynecologic and ocular tumors.
  • (5) A triphasic pattern was evident for the neck moments including a small phase which represented a seating of the headform on the nodding blocks of the uppermost ATD neck segment, and two larger phases of opposite polarity which represented the motion of the head relative to the trunk during the first 350 ms after impact.
  • (6) By means of computed tomography (CT) values related to bone density and mass were assessed in the femoral head, neck, trochanter, shaft, and condyles.
  • (7) A neck clipping of the aneurysm and an aneurysmectomy were performed on September 27.
  • (8) Thirteen patients had had a posterior dislocation with an associated fracture of the femoral head located either caudad or cephalad to the fovea centralis (Pipkin Type-I or Type-II injury), one had had a posterior dislocation with associated fractures of the femoral head and neck (Pipkin Type III), two had had a posterior dislocation with associated fractures of the femoral head and the acetabular rim (Pipkin Type IV), and three had had a fracture-dislocation that we could not categorize according to the Pipkin classification.
  • (9) We report a rare case of odontogenic abscess, detected while the patient was in the intensive care unit (ICU), which resulted in sepsis and the patient's death due to mediastinitis, skull osteomyelitis, and deep neck cellulitis.
  • (10) Water immersion (WI) to the neck induces prompt increases in central blood volume, central venous pressure, and atrial distension.
  • (11) This study reviewed 148 patients who had received radiation for head and neck cancer.
  • (12) In 17 patients with femoral neck fractures who were between 15 and 40 years old the incidence of aseptic necrosis in patients followed more than 2 years was 18.7 per cent.
  • (13) Patients with femoral neck fractures treated at a department of orthopedic surgery in a university hospital and one retrospective control sample from a department of general surgery in a county hospital.
  • (14) The patient had experienced repeated spontaneous fractures for 1.5 years such as serial rib fractures, fractures of the sternum and most recently fracture of the neck of the femur after a minimal trauma.
  • (15) We treated a 62-year-old man with intermittent polyarthritis whose neck pain was prominent.
  • (16) Nine of the patients had tumors which were diagnosed as follicular carcinoma, 4 of whom had recurrences in the neck region.
  • (17) Moreover, the majority of the 'out of phase' units showed an increased discharge during side-up animal tilt and side-down neck rotation.
  • (18) When the supraomohyoid neck dissection specimen showed no involvement, the overall incidence of treatment failure in the neck at 2-year follow-up was 5 percent.
  • (19) On day 7, washes were collected as on day 0, and a collar was attached to the neck to prevent contamination from saliva.
  • (20) This weakness and its role in persistent neck pain should be recognized.