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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Examples of "collar" in Sentences
- The collar has a lace ruffle.
- The collar and other scales seem jagged.
- The collar of the blouse is round necked.
- The prong collar does not pinch the skin.
- The man likes to wear shirts with collars.
- The dress consisted of baggy pants and long collar shirts.
- A red rose appears on the collar of the Order of the Garter.
- Adjustable pins on the collar control the depth of the opening.
- Inside the collar is a woven small darkmaroon label that reads Arsenal.
- The collar and sleeve ends are now the same color as the rest of the jersey.
- With a few yellow and black band runnig across the chest, with the collar is all white.
- Two of them the collar is awesome on and once conditioned I dont have to use it very often at all.
- When trout rivers churn with early-season runoff, a large (4 - to 6-inch) nightcrawler hooked once through the collar is the classic approach.
- Police still haven't confirmed the device was a a bomb, but they called the bomb squad and evacuated houses nearby, so media reports are leading with the phrase "collar bomb."
- The shirt has a polo collar, and inside the collar is a high quality woven small blue label that reads Arsenal, while engineered in to the side seam is a small label featuring two Arsenal canons either side of the club motto, ‘Victoria Concordia Crescit,’ which translates as ‘Victory Through Harmony’ flanked by two canons.