collar
Part of speech: noun
verb
Morphological type: simple
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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.
Inflected forms:
form: collars
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: collars
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: collaring
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: collared
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: collared
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: Clothes that encircle the neck.
pos: noun
examples: 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.
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.
gloss: Clothes that encircle the neck.
pos: noun
gloss: Clothes that encircle the neck.
pos: noun
gloss: Clothes that encircle the neck.
pos: noun
gloss: Clothes that encircle the neck.
pos: noun
gloss: Clothes that encircle the neck.
pos: noun
examples: Make sure your dog has a collar holding an identification tag.
gloss: Clothes that encircle the neck.
pos: noun
gloss: Clothes that encircle the neck.
pos: noun
tags: archaic
gloss: A piece of meat from the neck of an animal.
pos: noun
examples: a collar of brawn
gloss: Any encircling device or structure.
pos: noun
examples: A nylon collar kept the bolt from damaging the surface underneath.
In this case, slide the collar of the flapper over the overflow tube until it seats against the bottom of the flush valve.
gloss: Any encircling device or structure.
pos: noun
gloss: Any encircling device or structure.
pos: noun
gloss: Any encircling device or structure.
pos: noun
gloss: Any encircling device or structure.
pos: noun
gloss: Of or pertaining to a certain category of professions as symbolized by typical clothing.
pos: noun
tags: in-compounds
gloss: The neck or line of junction between the root of a plant and its stem
pos: noun
gloss: A ringlike part of a mollusk in connection with the esophagus.
pos: noun
gloss: 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.
pos: noun
gloss: An arrest.
pos: noun
tags: slang
examples: The collar was made less than twenty-four hours after the hunky bastards butchered the old man.
gloss: 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.
pos: noun
gloss: A topological neighborhood around a submanifold that can be deformed to preserve a specified condition or structure.
pos: noun
gloss: To grab or seize by the collar or neck.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
gloss: To place a collar on, to fit with one.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: Collar and leash aggressive dogs.
(Follow me, don't follow me.) I've got my spine, I've got my orange crush.
(Collar me, don't collar me.) I've got my spine, I've got my orange crush.
gloss: To surround or encircle.
pos: verb
gloss: To seize, capture or detain.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
gloss: To steal.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: "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.
gloss: To preempt, control stringently and exclusively.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
gloss: To arrest.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: 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.
gloss: To bind in conversation.
pos: verb
tags: figuratively
transitive
examples: I managed to collar Fred in the office for an hour.
They go in and lobby, collar the representatives and ask: are you for or against?
gloss: To roll up (beef or other meat) and bind it with string preparatory to cooking.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
gloss: To bind (a submissive) to a dominant under specific conditions or obligations.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
Synonyms: collum
Related words: accolade
Derived words: 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
clergy 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
floating collar
flotation collar
Gladstone collar
gold-collar
gray collar
gray-collar
green collar
green-collar
grey-collar
head collar
headcollar
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
posture collar
Prussian collar
radio collar
radiocollar
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
collar the bowling
collar up
collaring
recollar
Translations:
lang: Catalan
word: collar
lang: Dutch
word: halsband
lang: Finnish
word: kaulus
lang: Finnish
word: panta
lang: Ingrian
word: kaglus
lang: Macedonian
word: околувра́тник
roman: okoluvrátnik
lang: Māori
word: tāhei
lang: Quechua
word: sipi
lang: Arabic
word: طَوْق
roman: ṭawq
lang: Arabic
word: طوق
roman: ṭōg
lang: Bulgarian
word: нашийник
roman: našijnik
lang: Burmese
word: လည်ပတ်
roman: lanypat
lang: Catalan
word: collera
lang: Catalan
word: collar
lang: Catalan
word: jou
lang: Chinese Mandarin
word: 脖套
roman: bótào
lang: Czech
word: obojek
lang: Danish
word: halsbånd
lang: Dutch
word: halsband
lang: Dutch
word: nekriem
lang: Estonian
word: kaelarihm
lang: Finnish
word: panta
lang: Finnish
word: kaulapanta
lang: Finnish
word: länget
lang: Finnish
word: kaulain
lang: French
word: collier
lang: Galician
word: coleira
lang: Galician
word: colar
lang: Georgian
word: საყელური
roman: saq̇eluri
lang: German
word: Halsband
lang: Ancient Greek
word: κλοιός
roman: kloiós
lang: Hebrew
word: קולר
roman: qolar
lang: Hungarian
word: nyakörv
lang: Ingrian
word: lappa
lang: Ingrian
word: länget
lang: Irish
word: coiléar
lang: Italian
word: collare
lang: Japanese
word: 首輪
roman: kubiwa
lang: Khmer
word: ប្រឡៅ
roman: prɑlav
lang: Latin
word: mellum
lang: Macedonian
word: о́главник
roman: óglavnik
lang: Māori
word: kara
lang: Persian
word: قلاده
lang: Persian
word: یوغ
lang: Persian
word: باشت
lang: Polish
word: obroża
lang: Portuguese
word: coleira
lang: Russian
word: оше́йник
roman: ošéjnik
lang: Kildin-Sami
word: рӣссэм
roman: rīssem
lang: Serbo-Croatian
word: овратница
lang: Serbo-Croatian
word: огрлина
lang: Serbo-Croatian
word: овратлина
lang: Serbo-Croatian
word: о̀гр̄љак
lang: Serbo-Croatian
word: ovratnica
lang: Serbo-Croatian
word: ogrlina
lang: Serbo-Croatian
word: ovratlina
lang: Serbo-Croatian
word: ògr̄ljak
lang: Slovene
word: ovratnica
lang: Spanish
word: collar
lang: Spanish
word: yugo
lang: Spanish
word: collera
lang: Spanish
word: collerón
lang: Tagalog
word: kolyar
lang: Thai
word: ปลอกคอ
roman: bplɔ̀ɔk-kɔɔ
lang: Turkish
word: tasma
lang: Ottoman Turkish
word: تاصمه
roman: tasma
lang: Ukrainian
word: наши́йник
roman: našýjnyk
lang: Walloon
word: gorea
lang: Walloon
word: gorhea
lang: Walloon
word: colé
lang: Welsh
word: coler
lang: Welsh
word: coleri
lang: Catalan
word: collar
lang: Dutch
word: boord
lang: Dutch
word: gordel
lang: Dutch
word: rand
lang: Dutch
word: ring
lang: Finnish
word: kaulus
lang: French
word: collier
lang: German
word: Ring
lang: Italian
word: collo
lang: Italian
word: anello
lang: Italian
word: fascetta
lang: Macedonian
word: о́брач
roman: óbrač
lang: Portuguese
word: anel
lang: Russian
word: о́бруч
roman: óbruč