Collar

noun collars

1. 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. It was April 22, 1831, and a young man was walking down Whitehall in the direction of Parliament Street. He wore shepherd's plaid trousers and the swallow-tail coat of the day, with a figured muslin cravat wound about his wide-spread collar.
2. A decorative band or other fabric around the neckline.
3. A chain worn around the neck.
4. A similar detachable item.
5. A coloured ring round the neck of a bird or mammal.
6. A band or chain around an animal's neck, used to restrain and/or identify it. Make sure your dog has a collar holding an identification tag.
7. A part of harness designed to distribute the load around the shoulders of a draft animal.
8. archaic A hangman's knot.
9. A piece of meat from the neck of an animal. a collar of brawn
10. Any encircling device or structure. A nylon collar kept the bolt from damaging the surface underneath.
11. A physical lockout device to prevent operation of a mechanical signal lever.
12. A ring or cincture.
13. A collar beam.
14. A curb, or a horizontal timbering, around the mouth of a shaft.
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. The collar was made less than twenty-four hours after the hunky bastards butchered the old man.
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.

Similar: collum

verb collars · collaring · collared

1. transitive To grab or seize by the collar or neck.
2. transitive To place a collar on, to fit with one. Collar and leash aggressive dogs.
3. To surround or encircle.
4. transitive To seize, capture or detain.
5. transitive To steal. "Ho, aboard the Salt Junk Sarah, Rollin" home across the line, The Bo'sun collared the Captain's hat And threw it in the brine.
6. transitive To preempt, control stringently and exclusively.
7. transitive To arrest. Britain’s police are especially zealous. Officers spend thousands of hours sifting through potentially offensive posts and arrest 30 people a day. Among those collared were a man who ranted about immigration on Facebook and a couple who criticised their daughter’s primary school.
8. figuratively, transitive To bind in conversation. I managed to collar Fred in the office for an hour.
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.

proper noun Collars

1. A surname.