collar

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

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. Doublet of collet.

Synonyms

neckband

necklace

arrest

lapel

neck

choker

dog collar

ruff

band

catch

seize

taking into custody

shoe collar

capture

yoke

apprehend

harness

torque

nab

apprehension

flange

ferrule

hold

nail

leash

territory

ring

💍

tire

collet

cop

👮

grab

pick up

pinch

gorget

get

frill

clip

felly

pearl necklace

neckline

discipline

chest

banding

detention

detainment

loop

➿

custody

nobble

lapels

corral

Translations

col

collier

Kragen

collare

collar

cuello

Halsband

colletto

kołnierz

kraag

boord

colarinho

collo

collar

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