collar
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈkɒl.ə/
note: of Canada
ipa: /ˈkɑ.ləɹ/
note: of the US
ipa: /ˈkɒl.əɹ/
ipa: /ˈkɔl.ə/
ipa: /ˈkɒl.ə/
rhymes: -ɒlə(ɹ)
homophone: caller (cot–caught merger)
Forms: form: collars
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. Doublet of collet.
Senses: examples: text: 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.
ref: 1906, Stanley J[ohn] Weyman, chapter I, in Chippinge Borough, New York, N.Y.: McClure, Phillips & Co., →OCLC, page 01:
text: Here, in the transept and choir, where the service was being held, one was conscious every moment of an increasing brightness; colours glowing vividly beneath the circular chandeliers, and the rows of small lights on the choristers' desks flashed and sparkled in front of the boys' faces, deep linen collars, and red neckbands.
ref: 1918, W[illiam] B[abington] Maxwell, chapter V, in The Mirror and the Lamp, Indianapolis, Ind.: The Bobbs-Merrill Company, →OCLC:
glosses: 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.
glosses: Clothes that encircle the neck.
A decorative band or other fabric around the neckline.
glosses: Clothes that encircle the neck.
A chain worn around the neck.
glosses: Clothes that encircle the neck.
A similar detachable item.
glosses: Clothes that encircle the neck.
A coloured ring round the neck of a bird or mammal.
examples: text: Make sure your dog has a collar holding an identification tag.
glosses: Clothes that encircle the neck.
A band or chain around an animal's neck, used to restrain and/or identify it.
glosses: Clothes that encircle the neck.
A part of harness designed to distribute the load around the shoulders of a draft animal.
glosses: Clothes that encircle the neck.
A hangman's knot.
synonyms: word: halter
word: Bridport dagger
word: collar
word: halter
word: hangman's knot
word: hangman's noose
word: hempen collar
word: hempen cravat
examples: text: a collar of brawn
glosses: A piece of meat from the neck of an animal.
examples: text: A nylon collar kept the bolt from damaging the surface underneath.
text: In this case, slide the collar of the flapper over the overflow tube until it seats against the bottom of the flush valve.
ref: Popular Mechanics Complete Home How-to (page 356)
topics: engineering
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
technology
glosses: Any encircling device or structure.
topics: engineering
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
rail-transport
railways
technology
transport
glosses: Any encircling device or structure.
A physical lockout device to prevent operation of a mechanical signal lever.
topics: architecture
engineering
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
technology
glosses: Any encircling device or structure.
A ring or cincture.
topics: architecture
engineering
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
technology
glosses: Any encircling device or structure.
A collar beam.
topics: business
engineering
mining
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
technology
glosses: Any encircling device or structure.
A curb, or a horizontal timbering, around the mouth of a shaft.
glosses: Of or pertaining to a certain category of professions as symbolized by typical clothing.
topics: biology
botany
natural-sciences
glosses: The neck or line of junction between the root of a plant and its stem
glosses: A ringlike part of a mollusk in connection with the esophagus.
topics: nautical
transport
glosses: 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.
examples: text: The collar was made less than twenty-four hours after the hunky bastards butchered the old man.
ref: 2013, Dorothy Uhnak, Law and Order:
glosses: An arrest.
topics: business
finance
glosses: 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.
topics: mathematics
sciences
glosses: A topological neighborhood around a submanifold that can be deformed to preserve a specified condition or structure.
Synonyms: topics: botany
biology
natural-sciences
word: collum
Derived terms: against the collar
baby collar
bark collar
bell-collar
bishop's collar
black-collar
blue-collar
blue-collar work
blue-collar worker
bottle collar
brass-collar Democrat
buster collar
camp collar
Casal collar
Casal's collar
cervical collar
change collars
choke collar
Claudine collar
clerical collar
collar and elbow
collar bomb
collar bone
collar-bone
collarbone
collar button
collar-button abscess
collar county
collared lizard
collarless
collarmaker
collarmaking
collar of esses
collar stud
collar stud abscess
collar tab
collar-work
Danton collar
dog collar
e-collar
E-collar
elbow and collar
electronic collar
Elizabethan collar
equity collar
eternity collar
Eton collar
falling collar
feel someone's collar
flashing collar
flea collar
floatation collar
Gladstone collar
gold-collar
gray-collar
gray collar
green-collar
green collar
grey-collar
headcollar
head collar
hempen collar
horse collar
horse-collar
horsecollar
hot under the collar
in collar
interest rate collar
lavender-collar
mandarin collar
Medici collar
Newgate collar
no-collar
open-collar
out of collar
overcollar
Peter Pan collar
pie crust collar
pink-collar
pink collar
pink-collar work
Prussian collar
radiocollar
radio collar
rainbow-collar
rain collar
remote training collar
Roman collar
sailor collar
scarlet-collar
shawl collar
shirt collar
shock collar
storm collar
tight-collar
training collar
turtleneck collar
uncollar
undercollar
Vandyke collar
white collar
white-collar
white-collar boxing
white-collar crime
white-collar work
white-collar worker
wine collar
wing collar
Related terms: accolade