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collar

noun
/ˈkɒl.ə/UK/ˈkɑ.lɚ/US/ˈkɒl.ɚ/CA/ˈkɔl.ə/

Etymology

From Middle English coler, borrowed from Old French coler (Modern French collier), from Late Latin collāre, from Latin collāris, from collum (“neck”). Cognate with Gothic 𐌷𐌰𐌻𐍃 (hals, “neck”), Old English heals (“neck”). Compare Spanish cuello (“neck”). More at halse. Doublet of collet.

  1. derived from collāris
  2. derived from collāre
  3. derived from coler
  4. inherited from coler

Definitions

  1. Clothes that encircle the neck.

  2. A piece of meat from the neck of an animal.

    • a collar of brawn

  3. Any encircling device or structure.

    • A nylon collar kept the bolt from damaging the surface underneath.
    • In this case, slide the collar of the flapper over the overflow tube until it seats against the bottom of the flush valve.
  4. ›+ 18 more definitions

    1. Of or pertaining to a certain category of professions as symbolized by typical clothing.

    2. The neck or line of junction between the root of a plant and its stem

    3. A ringlike part of a mollusk in connection with the esophagus.

    4. An eye formed in the bight or bend of a shroud or stay to go over the masthead

      An eye formed in the bight or bend of a shroud or stay to go over the masthead; also, a rope to which certain parts of rigging, as dead-eyes, are secured.

    5. An arrest.

      • The collar was made less than twenty-four hours after the hunky bastards butchered the old man.

    6. A trading strategy using options such that there is both an upper limit on profit and a…

      A trading strategy using options such that there is both an upper limit on profit and a lower limit on loss, constructed through taking equal but opposite positions in a put and a call with different strike prices.

    7. A topological neighborhood around a submanifold that can be deformed to preserve a…

      A topological neighborhood around a submanifold that can be deformed to preserve a specified condition or structure.

    8. To grab or seize by the collar or neck.

    9. To place a collar on, to fit with one.

      • Collar and leash aggressive dogs.
      • (Follow me, don't follow me.) I've got my spine, I've got my orange crush. (Collar me, don't collar me.) I've got my spine, I've got my orange crush.

    10. To surround or encircle.

    11. To seize, capture or detain.

    12. To steal.

      • "Ho, aboard the Salt Junk Sarah, Rollin" home across the line, The Bo'sun collared the Captain's hat And threw it in the brine.

    13. To preempt, control stringently and exclusively.

    14. To arrest.

    15. To bind in conversation.

      • I managed to collar Fred in the office for an hour.
      • They go in and lobby, collar the representatives and ask: are you for or against?

    16. To roll up (beef or other meat) and bind it with string preparatory to cooking.

    17. To bind (a submissive) to a dominant under specific conditions or obligations.

    18. A surname.

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Derived

against the collar, baby collar, bark collar, bell-collar, bishop's collar, black-collar, blue-collar, blue-collar work, blue-collar worker, bottle collar, brass-collar Democrat, buster collar, camp collar, Casal collar, Casal's collar, cervical collar, change collars, choke collar, Claudine collar, clergy collar, clerical collar, collar and elbow, collar bomb, collar-bone, collar bone, collarbone, collar button, collar-button abscess, collar county, collared lizard, collarless, collarmaker, collarmaking, collar of esses, collar stud, collar stud abscess, collar tab, collar-work, Danton collar, dog collar · +74 more

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sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA