collar

Meaning

Noun

1. Clothes that encircle the neck.
2. Clothes that encircle the neck.
3. Clothes that encircle the neck.
4. Clothes that encircle the neck.
5. Clothes that encircle the neck.
6. Clothes that encircle the neck.
7. Clothes that encircle the neck.
8. Clothes that encircle the neck.
9. A piece of meat from the neck of an animal.
10. Any encircling device or structure.
11. Any encircling device or structure.
12. Any encircling device or structure.
13. Any encircling device or structure.
14. Any encircling device or structure.
15. Of or pertaining to a certain category of professions as symbolized by typical clothing.
16. The neck or line of junction between the root of a plant and its stem
17. A ringlike part of a mollusk in connection with the esophagus.
18. 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.
19. (slang) An arrest.
20. 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.
21. A topological neighborhood around a submanifold that can be deformed to preserve a specified condition or structure.

Verb

1. To grab or seize by the collar or neck.
2. To place a collar on, to fit with one.
3. To seize, capture or detain.
4. To steal.
5. To preempt, control stringently and exclusively.
6. To arrest.
7. To bind in conversation.
8. To roll up (beef or other meat) and bind it with string preparatory to cooking.
9. To bind (a submissive) to a dominant under specific conditions or obligations.

Synonyms

neckband

necklace

arrest

lapel

neck

ruff

band

dog collar

choker

catch

capture

torque

shoe collar

seize

apprehend

nab

taking into custody

yoke

harness

cop

👮

territory

tire

ferrule

flange

pick up

collet

pinch

nail

grab

hold

ring

💍

apprehension

leash

retaining ring

rim

ringer

rosary

shoulder

sill

skirt

snaffle

snag

snap up

spacer

tassel

trap

🪤

tyre

withholding

bottom girder

dog-collar

neckpiece

snatch up

take prisoner

front of neck

area around the collar

top of the shoulders

tip of the shoulder

lay hands upon

man’s collar

check ring

closing ring

root collar

stop collar

lantern ring

spacing sleeve

socket ring

shrink-ring

shield ring

antiextrusion ring

annulus

root neck

bail

banding

bead

bracelet

buckle

chest

clip

collar bone

commandeer

corral

custody

detainment

detention

discipline

felly

frill

get

gorget

grasp

hook

🪝

hoop

impress

lapels

loop

➿

neckline

nobble

pearl necklace

pillory

pop

punishment

recapture

retainer ring

Pronounced as (IPA)

/ˈkɒl.ə/

Etymology

Inherited from Middle English: coler

Cognate with French: collier

Cognate with Gothic: 𐌷𐌰𐌻𐍃

Cognate with Old English: heals

Cognate with Spanish: cuello

In summary

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.