an opening in a garment for the neck of the wearer; a part of the garment near the wearer's neck | a piece of furniture that provides a place to sleep |
a narrow part of an artifact that resembles a neck in position or form | a plot of ground in which plants are growing |
the part of an organism (human or animal) that connects the head to the rest of the body | a foundation of earth or rock supporting a road or railroad track |
a cut of meat from the neck of an animal | the flat surface of a printing press on which the type form is laid in the last stage of producing a newspaper or magazine or book etc. |
a narrow elongated projecting strip of land | single thickness of usually some homogeneous substance |
| a stratum of ore or coal thick enough to be mined with profit |
| a depression forming the ground under a body of water |
| (geology) a stratum of rock (especially sedimentary rock) |