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.

Concepts

collar

neckband

necklace

arrest

lapel

neck

dog collar

band

ruff

choker

catch

harness

torque

apprehend

capture

seize

taking into custody

nab

shoe collar

yoke

grab

apprehension

pinch

leash

cop

nail

pick up

collet

hold

flange

ferrule

ring

tire

territory

front of neck

chest

lapels

area around the collar

tip of the shoulder

top of the shoulders

man’s collar

corral

dog-collar

get

gorget

commandeer

grasp

impress

lay hands upon

take prisoner

spacer

spacing sleeve

bracelet

punishment

pearl necklace

rosary

pillory

ringer

bail

closing ring

lantern ring

shrink-ring

socket ring

bottom girder

sill

antiextrusion ring

check ring

retainer ring

retaining ring

shield ring

stop collar

root collar

root neck

collar bone

neckline

trap

frill

neckpiece

discipline

hook

nobble

pop

snaffle

snag

snap up

snatch up

banding

custody

detainment

detention

recapture

withholding

annulus

hoop

loop

rim

skirt

tyre

shoulder

buckle

clip

bead

felly

tassel

Pronounced as (IPA)

/ˈkɒl.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.