The depth of the architrave on its under side should answer to the necking at the top of the column.
The spreading portion is emphasized by surface ornament, and the necking is again emphasized, this time more decisively, by a moulding, forming a series of parallel rings round the column.
Early English capitals are usually bell-shaped, and are, in the smaller examples, quite devoid of ornament, with the exception of a necking and one or two mouldings round the abacus.
Perpendicular capitals are either circular or octagonal, but the necking is usually of the former shape, and the upper members of the abacus of the latter form.
Several fragments have been discovered, from which it is possible to reconstruct with tolerable certainty the capitals and necking of the columns of the archaic temple.
Fragment of necking of a column, of a different design from the preceding, and surrounded by a pattern of lotus buds and lotus flowers.
Necking of Ionic column, copied from the columns of the east portico of the Erechtheion.
It would be difficult to decide whether these mouldings were reminiscences of the binding-ribbons upon the necking of Egyptian floral columns.
Though the three incisions of the capital necking are peculiarly primitive, the echinos has become even steeper than it was upon the Parthenon.
A scamillus thus creates the incision between the upper drum of the shaft and the necking of the Doric capital, and is also occasionally inserted between the top of the abacus and the soffit of the epistyle.
Between the shaft and the calyx there is a preparatory necking of small leaves, similar to those which existed upon the example within the temple at Bassae.
In architectural usage, the deep groove which separates the necking of the column from the upper drum of the shaft beneath.
Tátaw sa bintánà ang ílang rinubuhay, You could see them necking clearly through the window.
One cannot follow Sir George Birdwood[83] when he says this "necking immediately below the capital represents with considerable purity the honeysuckle ornament of the Assyrians, which the Greeks borrowed from them with the Ionic order.
The 'reel and bead' pattern running along the lower border of the necking represents the lotus stalks.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "necking" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word. Other words: caressing; dalliance; fondling; nestling; petting
