necked

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Editorial note

So why not just focus the sun on the surface of the water in a narrow necked container?

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Quick take

(in combination) Having some specific type of neck or neckline.

Meaning at a glance

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adjective

(in combination) Having some specific type of neck or neckline.

adjective

(nautical, archaic, of a treenail) Cracked.

Definitions

Core meanings and parts of speech for necked.

adjective

(in combination) Having some specific type of neck or neckline.

adjective

(nautical, archaic, of a treenail) Cracked.

Example sentences

So why not just focus the sun on the surface of the water in a narrow necked container?

Battery innovation is actually bottle-necked by the fact that over 90% of all anode materials are produced in China.

It sucks that businesses like 500px have to be a marter in a bottle necked distribution environment.

For a certain generation of doctor, it'd be unforgivable to appear in front of a patient in an open-necked shirt.

It has been a long time since most of us were bottle-necked by producing more code.

You don’t get 10x output when your engineers are still bottle-necked by approvals from 4 departments.

Many otherwise high-performance frameworks and platforms become bottle-necked waiting on those 20 queries per request.

Things like web apps are routinely bottle-necked by execution speed, not disk or network.

Computers can communicate practically instantly, but humans are bottle-necked by how quickly we can move our lips.

At 384 threads wouldn't the CPU be heavily bottle-necked on memory?

It seems silly to be bottle-necked on things like this.

I wouldn't doubt some of the narrow necked items could be assembled using forceps.

Quote examples

"Why not just watch the movie?" Rather than using the semantics to simulate this alternate universe, they get bottle-necked into trying to translate the glyphs.

One of the references in the link above is for a 14yo circumventing a profanity filter (based on a white-list) with the phrase "I want to stick my long-necked Giraffe up your fluffy white bunny."