Throat

Definition: Throat

Throat

Noun

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

2. An opening in the vamp of a shoe at the instep.

3. A passage resembling a throat in shape or function; "the throat of the vase" or "the throat of a chimney".

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

Date "throat" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1050. (references)

Etymology: Throat \Throat\ (thr[=o]t), noun. [Old English throte, Anglo-Saxon [thorn]rote, [thorn]rotu; akin to Old High German drozza, German drossel; compare to Old Flemmish & Dutch stort. Compare to Throttle.]. (references)

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Medicine

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Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Synonym: Throat

Airpipe

Noun: air pipe, air tube; airhole, blowhole, breathinghole, venthole; shaft, flue, chimney, funnel, vent, nostril, nozzle, throat, weasand, trachea; bronchus, bronchia; larynx, tonsils, windpipe, spiracle; ventiduct, ventilator; louvre, jalousie, Venetian blinds; blowpipe. (wind); pipe. (tube); jhilmil; smokestack.

Aphony

Stick in the throat.

Belief

Cause to be believed; Verb: satisfy, persuade, have the ear of, gain the confidence of, assure; convince, convict, convert; wean, bring round; bring over, win over; indoctrinate; (teach); cram down the throat; produce conviction, carry conviction; bring home to, drive home to.

Compulsion

Force upon, press; cram down the throat, thrust down the throat, force down the throat; say it must be done, make a point of, insist upon, take no denial; put down, dragoon.

Dislike

Cause dislike, excite dislike; disincline, repel, sicken; make sick, render sick; turn one's stomach, nauseate, wamble, disgust, shock, stink in the nostrils; go against the grain, go against the stomach; stick in the throat; make one's blood run cold; (give pain); pall.

Ejection

Disgorge; expectorate, clear the throat, hawk, spit, sputter, splutter, slobber, drivel, slaver, slabber; eructate; drool.

Killing

Saber; cut down, cut to pieces, cut the throat; jugulate; stab, run through the body, bayonet, eviscerate; put to the sword, put to the edge of the sword.

Negation

Dispute; impugn, traverse, rebut, join issue upon; bring in question, call in question; (doubt); give (one) the lie in his throat.

Opening

Outlet, inlet; vent, vomitory; embouchure; orifice, mouth, sucker, muzzle, throat, gullet, weasand, wizen, nozzle; placket.

Pain

Sicken, disgust, revolt, nauseate, disenchant, repel, offend, shock, stink in the nostrils; go against the stomach, turn the stomach; make one sick, set the teeth on edge, go against the grain, grate on the ear; stick in one's throat, stick in one's gizzard; rankle, gnaw, corrode, horrify, appal, appall, freeze the blood; make the flesh creep, make the hair stand on end; make the blood curdle, make the blood run cold; make one shudder.

Severity

Assume, usurp, arrogate, take liberties; domineer, bully; tyrannize, inflict, wreak, stretch a point, put on the screw; be hard upon; bear a heavy hand on, lay a heavy hand on; be down upon, come down upon; ill treat; deal hardly with, deal hard measure to; rule with a rod of iron, chastise with scorpions; dye with blood; oppress, override; trample under foot; tread under foot, tread upon, trample upon, tread down upon, trample down upon; crush under an iron heel, ride roughshod over; rivet the yoke; hold a tight hand, keep a tight hand; force down the throat; coerce; give no quarter; (pitiless) a.

Taciturnity

Stick in one's throat.

Taking

Get hold of, lay hold of, take hold of, catch hold of, lay fast hold of, take firm hold of; lay by the heels, take prisoner; fasten upon, grip, grapple, embrace, gripe, clasp, grab, clutch, collar, throttle, take by the throat, claw, clinch, clench, make sure of.

Unskillfulness

Not know what one is about, not know one's own interest, not know on which side one's bread is buttered; stand in one's own light, quarrel with one's bread and butter, throw a stone in one's own garden, kill the goose which lays the golden eggs, pay dear for one's whistle, cut one's own throat, bum one's fingers; knock one's head against a stone wall, beat one's head against a stone wall; fall into a trap, catch a Tartar, bring the house about one's ears; have too many eggs in one basket (imprudent), have too many irons in the fire.

Crosswords: Throat

I cannot shed blood in her house, but I will cut your throat anon (Shakespeare in Love; writing credit: Marc Norman; Tom Stoppard)

No, I am just clearing my throat. (Spaceballs; writing credit: Mel Brooks and Ronny Graham.)

You know I haven't been this choked up since I got a hunk of moussaka caught in my throat. (Hercules; writing credit: Ron Clements; Barry Johnson)

This this, the hollow at the base of a woman's throat, does it have an official name (The English Patient; writing credit: Anthony Minghella)

Another local peasant has been found dead, drained of his blood with two teeth marks on his throat. This black cape was found on the scene (The Simpsons; writing credit: Artur Brauner; Paul Hengge)

Get stuck in your throat (Goody Two Shoes; performing artist: Adam Ant)

Grabbed her by the throat, it's murder she wrote (Murder Murder (Remix) *; performing artist: Eminem)

And I just hit town and my throat was dry, (A Boy Named Sue; performing artist: Johnny Cash)

Left my throat warm in the dorm room at the AU (So Fresh, So Clean; performing artist: Outkast)

Slittin my throat (Otherside; performing artist: Red Hot Chili Peppers)

More than once I had seen a noble who had gotten his enemy at a disadvantage stop to pray before cutting his throat. (references; author: Mark Twain)

For head cold, use an agonizer to spray the nose until it drops in your throat. (references; author: unknown)

Deep Throat Part II (1974)

Throat Gaggers #4 (2003)

Deep Throat Girls 1 (1994)

Old Throat and D.P. (1993)

Deep Throat 6 (1992)

Easter Island Head (performing artist: Throat Culture)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

References

• The 2001 Report on Throat Remedies: World Market Segmentation by City (reference)

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Books

• No News at Throat Lake (reference)

• Secret Agenda: Watergate, Deep Throat, and the CIA (reference)

• Throat (reference)

  (more book examples)

Periodicals

• Ear Nose & Throat Journal (reference)

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Theater & Movies

• Cut Throat (reference)

• The X-Files: Pilot/Deep Throat (reference)

  (more DVD examples; more video examples)

Music

• Go for the Throat (reference)

• Let Me Clear My Throat (reference)

  (more classical music examples; more popular music examples)

Consumer Goods

• DeWalt DW7444 Dado Throat Plate (for DW744) (reference)

• Olympia Industrial 12-042 2-1/2 In Deep Throat C - Clamp (reference)

  (more baby examples; more wireless phone examples; more garden examples; more kitchen examples; more tool examples)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

The incubation period for Ebola HF ranges from 2 to 21 days with abrupt onset of illness, characterized by fever, headache, joint and muscle aches, sore throat, and weakness, followed by diarrhea, vomiting, and stomach pain. Credit: CDC.

A patient with typical "nickel and dime" lesions on the face, which can develop during secondary syphilis. Other symptoms that may occur during this stage are mild fever, fatigue, headache, sore throat, patchy hair loss, and swollen lymph glands. Credit: CDC.

U. S. Army Base Hospital Number 6, Bordeaux, France. : Eye, ear, nose and throat clinic interior. Credit: National Library of Medicine.

U.S. Air Force Hospital, Tyndale Air Force Base, Panama City, FL. : Eye, ear, nose and throat clinic. Credit: National Library of Medicine.

Forcing slavery down the throat of a freesoiler. Credit: Library of Congress.

Then the cold fingers left his wrist, and crept slowly upward toward his throat. Credit: Library of Congress.

Upon my heart, he has a skylark prisoned in his throat! the masterplayer exclaimed. Credit: Library of Congress.

Interior views of pneumothorax room, x-ray department, and throat treatment room, Holy Cross Sanatorium Mahoney Park, Deming, New Mexico. Credit: Library of Congress.

Doctor examining boy's throat. Reedsville, West Virginia. Credit: Library of Congress.

The lump in the throat of C Boyd Esq., No. 1. Credit: Library of Congress.

Source: pictures compiled by the editor from various references; see picture credits.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Should a robber break into my house, and with a dagger at my throat make me seal deeds to convey my estate to him, would this give him any title? Just such a title, by his sword, has an unjust conqueror, who forces me into submission. (Second Treatise of Government)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Observe the turn of her throat.

(r)Vil stuck in his throat.

And Stephen smiled too for he knew now that it was not true that Mr Casey had a purse of silver in his throat.

His horse is slain, and all on foot he fights, Seeking for Richmond in the throat of death

Ma covered her mouth with her fingers and coughed to clear her throat.

For he assured me, that if the secret should be discovered by my countrymen the Dutch, they would cut my throat in the voyage

In globe, glb, the guttural g adds to the meaning the capacity of the throat.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Health

A severe cough or sore throat. (references)

Infections in the throat cause few symptoms. (references)

Earache, sore throat and rash are very uncommon. (references)

Business

Small packs of Paracetamol (containing 6 tablets) have been available in kiosks (newspaper stands) and petrol station shops for a few years, and there is a proposal to increase this list to include products such as sore throat remedies. (references)

Human Rights

Afghanistan

It was also reported that the Taliban cut the throat of one man in front of his relatives. (references)

Kazakhstan

Information became available during the year that the previously reported death of Kairat Seidakhmetov, a juvenile who slit his throat in a Zhanatas courtroom in April 2000, was false. (references)

Morocco

El-Kihal also alleged to AMDH that members of the Gendarmerie tied his hands behind his back, bent him backward on his knees, and applied pressure to his stomach while fingers were forced down his throat. (references)

Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits.

Throat

Expressions using "throat": be at each other's throat ♦ card throat ♦ clear one's throat ♦ clear the throat ♦ clergyman's throat ♦ cut one's own throat ♦ cut smb.'s throat ♦ cut the throat of ♦ cut throat ♦ depth of throat ♦ fly at smb.'s throat ♦ force down the throat ♦ frog in the throat ♦ give one the lie in his throat ♦ grab smb. by the throat ♦ have a frog in one's throat ♦ have a frog in the throat ♦ have a lump in one's throat ♦ have a sore throat ♦ inlet throat ♦ jump down smb.'s throat ♦ lie in one's throat ♦ Malignant sore throat ♦ neck or throat sweetbread ♦ putrid sore throat ♦ ram smth. down smb.'s throat ♦ raw throat ♦ relaxed throat ♦ scratchy throat ♦ septic sore throat ♦ slit smb.'s throat ♦ sore throat ♦ stick in one's throat ♦ stick in the throat ♦ strep throat ♦ streptococcal sore throat ♦ take by the throat ♦ take smb. by the throat ♦ Throat brails ♦ throat cancer ♦ throat capacity ♦ throat cutting ♦ throat depth ♦ throat depth clearance ♦ Throat halyards ♦ throat infection ♦ Throat pipe ♦ throat protector ♦ throat specialist ♦ throat sweetbread ♦ throat to centre of spindle ♦ To give one the lie in his throat ♦ To lie in one's throat ♦ ulcerated sore throat ♦ white throat. Additional references.

Beginning with "throat": throat-band, throat-burn, throat-clearing, throat-constricting, throat-cutting, throat-drying, throat-gripping, throat-hold, throat-rip, throat-slitting, throat-strings, throat-tearing, throat-theory, throat-tightening, throat-tract, throat-wash.

Ending with "throat": cut-throat.

Containing "throat": cut-throat competition, cut-throat razor, ear-nose-and-throat doctor.

Afrikaans

keel. (various references)

Albanian

gushë (chin, craw, Gill, gills, goitre), fyt (drink, gizzard, gullet, gulp, larynx, pharynx). (various references)

Arabic 

‏مجاز ضيق, ‏حنجرة (crag, gullet, larynx, throttle), ‏حلقوم (gorge), ‏حلق (aspire, circle, ear ring, fauces, flatten out, flit, float, fly, fly off, gorge, gullet, hawk about, larynx, pharynx, plane, ring, rise, shaving, soar, take off, tower, trim), ‏غمغم (buzz, mumble, splutter, sputter). (various references)

Asturian

gargüelu. (various references)

Aymara

mallq'a. (various references)

Bemba

umukolomino. (various references)

Blackfoot

mohksistón. (various references)

Bulgarian 

уста (kisser, mouth, mug, osculum, potato trap, potato-box, puss, rattletrap, rat-trap, trap, yap), устие (debouchment, embouchure, entry, issue, mouth, orifice, outfall, outflow), тесен отвор (slit), шия (cervix, neck, needle, sew, stitch), гърло (gorge, gullet, manhole, mouth, neck, pharynx, swallow, weasand, whistle), гуша (craw, crop, dewlap, goitre, jowl, maw), гръклян (adam's apple, throttle, weasand), врат (neck), ждрело (jaws). (various references)

Catalan

gola. (various references)

Cebuano

tutunlan. (various references)

Chamorro

guetgueru. (various references)

Chinese 

膛 (chest, hollow space), 脰 (neck), 噲 (to swallow), 嚨 , 喉� � (larynx), 喉嚨 , 喉头, 喉 (larynx), �"子 (voice), �" (voice), �'� (narrow pass, to choke, to swallow), 吭 . (various references)

Cornish

lonk. (various references)

Czech

krk (neck), jícen (esophagus, gullet, oesophagus, vent), hrdlo (cervix, fauces, gorge, gules, neck), chřtán. (various references)

Danish

strube (larynx). (various references)

Dutch

keel (entrance, flapper, opening), strot, keelgat. (various references)

Ecuadorian Quechua

tuncuri. (various references)

Esperanto

gorĝo. (various references)

Faeroese

vælindi, svølgrúm, hálsur (neck), barki (windpipe). (various references)

Farsi 

نای (Gullet, Lane, Pipe, Trachea, Tube, Windpipe), گلو (Gorge, Gullet, Lane, Throttle), ازگلواداکردن , دهانه (Eye, Head, Inset, Jet, Outfall, Spout), دهان (Gob, Jib, Mug, Puss, Slobber). (various references)

Finnish

nielu (pharynx), kurkku (cucumber). (various references)

French

gorge (throttle), gosier. (various references)

Frisian

kiel, hals (neck). (various references)

German

Kehle (gorge, groove, gullet, throttle), Gurgel (gullet, throttle), Rachen (abyss, jaws, maw, mouth, pharyngeal, pharynx, throats), Hals (cervical, maw, neck, scrag, stem). (various references)

Greek 

λαιμός (neck). (various references)

Hawaiian

gushë (chin), fyt. (various references)

Hebrew 

�'רון (gullet, larynx, neck). (various references)

Hungarian

torok (boot, gorge, jugular, pharynx, throttle). (various references)

Indonesian

tenggorokan, kerongkongan (gullet, oesophagus). (various references)

Inuktitut

tuqlluaq. (various references)

Irish

scornach. (various references)

Italian

gola (defile, gorge, gullet, neck, throttle), gorga. (various references)

Japanese Kanji 

喉元 , 喉 , �'�喉 , �'� . (various references)

Japanese Katakana 

のどもと, のど, い�"�"う (harlotry, obscenity, publishing, towing, tuging). (various references)

Kongo

laka. (various references)

Korean 

인후 (guttural). (various references)

Lombard

gargaròzz. (various references)

Macedonian

grlo. (various references)

Manx

troat. (various references)

Maori

korokoro. (various references)

Maya

ko'och. (various references)

Mohawk

ohny� sa. (various references)

Norwegian

strupe (gorge). (various references)

Papago

ba'tik. (various references)

Papiamen

garganta. (various references)

Pig Latin

oatthray.(various references)

Polish

gardło. (various references)

Portuguese

garganta (abysm, canyon, defile, dingle, fauces, gap, gate, gizzard, gorge, gullet, pass, ravine, swallow, throttle, whistle). (various references)

Provencal

garganta. (various references)

Romanian

grumaz (neck), gît, gâtlej (gullet, swallow, throttle), gât (gorge, journal, neck, pull, ravine, scrag, sip, spout, swallow). (various references)

Romansch

culiez. (various references)

Romany

korlò. (various references)

Russian 

горло (fauces, gizzard, gorge, guzzle, neck). (various references)

Samoan

faii. (various references)

Scottish

sgoirm, br� ghad (neck). (various references)

Serbo-Croatian

guša (craw, gullet, neck), grlo (fauces, gorge, neck, orifice), grlić (orifice, outfall). (various references)

Shona

huro. (various references)

Sicilian

gula. (various references)

Spanish

garganta (abysm, Coomb, gorge, gullet, neck, ravine). (various references)

Sranan

gorogoro. (various references)

Swazi

bhóngwane. (various references)

Swedish

svalg (abyss, chasm, fauces, pharynx, yawn), strupe (gullet), hals (fauces, neck, scrag, stem, tack). (various references)

Tagalog

lalamúnan. (various references)

Thai

รู้สึกตื้อๆ อยากร้องไห้ (get a lump in one's throat). (various references)

Turkish

boğaz (bosphorus, constriction, fauces, gorge, gullet, jugular, mountain pass, neck, pharyngal, pharyngeal, sound, Strait, swallow, throttle, whistle). (various references)

Turkmen 

damak, bokyrdak, bogaz (inlet). (various references)

Ukrainian

утворювати горловину, горловина (manhole), горло (throttle), вузький прохід (bottle-neck, defile), наспівувати хрипким голосом, бубонити. (various references)

Vietnamese 

họng (pharynx), cuống họng lỗ hẹp. (various references)

Welsh

gwddf (neck). (various references)

Yucatec

kal (neck, voice). (various references)

Zulu

umphimbo. (various references)

3. zi. (various references)

bronchos, pharynx, stomachos. (various references)

fauces, gula, gutter, guttur, jugulum, stomachus. (various references)

gargouille, gorge. (various references)

goitron. (various references)

throte. (various references)