collar
IPA: kˈɑɫɝ
noun
- Clothes that encircle the neck.
- The part of an upper garment (shirt, jacket, etc.) that fits around the neck and throat, especially if sewn from a separate piece of fabric.
- A decorative band or other fabric around the neckline.
- A chain worn around the neck.
- A similar detachable item.
- A coloured ring round the neck of a bird or mammal.
- A band or chain around an animal's neck, used to restrain and/or identify it.
- A part of harness designed to distribute the load around the shoulders of a draft animal.
- (archaic) A hangman's knot.
- A piece of meat from the neck of an animal.
- (technology) Any encircling device or structure.
- (rail transport) A physical lockout device to prevent operation of a mechanical signal lever.
- (architecture) A ring or cincture.
- (architecture) A collar beam.
- (mining) A curb, or a horizontal timbering, around the mouth of a shaft.
- (in compounds) Of or pertaining to a certain category of professions as symbolized by typical clothing.
- (botany) The neck or line of junction between the root of a plant and its stem
- A ringlike part of a mollusk in connection with the esophagus.
- (nautical) 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.
- (slang) An arrest.
- (finance) 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.
- A surname.
verb
- (transitive) To grab or seize by the collar or neck.
- (transitive) To place a collar on, to fit with one.
- (transitive) To seize, capture or detain.
- (transitive) To steal.
- (transitive) To preempt, control stringently and exclusively.
- (law enforcement, transitive) To arrest.
- (figuratively, transitive) To bind in conversation.
- (transitive) To roll up (beef or other meat) and bind it with string preparatory to cooking.
- (transitive, BDSM) To bind (a submissive) to a dominant under specific conditions or obligations.
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