| collar | |
| 1. s. Anything that encircles the neck. | |
| 2. s. 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. | |
| 3. s. A decorative band or other fabric around the neckline. | |
| 4. s. A chain worn around the neck. | |
| 5. s. A similar detachable item. | |
| 6. s. A coloured ring round the neck of a bird or mammal. | |
| 7. s. 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. | |
| 8. s. A part of harness designed to distribute the load around the shoulders of a draft animal. | |
| 9. s. (archaic) A hangman's knot. | |
| 10. s. A piece of meat from the neck of an animal. | |
| a collar of brawn | |
| 11. s. (technology) Any encircling device or structure. | |
| A nylon collar kept the bolt from damaging the surface underneath. | |
| 12. s. (rail transport) A physical lockout device to prevent operation of a mechanical signal lever. | |
| 13. s. (architecture) A ring or cincture. | |
| 14. s. (architecture) A collar beam. | |
| 15. s. (mining) A curb, or a horizontal timbering, around the mouth of a shaft. | |
| 16. s. (in compounds) Of or pertaining to a certain category of professions as symbolized by typical clothing. | |
| 17. s. (botany) The neck or line of junction between the root of a plant and its stem. | |
| 18. s. A ringlike part of a mollusk in connection with the esophagus. | |
| 19. s. (nautical) 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. | |
| 20. s. (slang) An arrest. | |
| 21. s. (finance) 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 | |
| 22. v. To grab or seize by the collar or neck. | |
| 23. v. To place a collar on, to fit with one. | |
| Collar and leash aggressive dogs. | |
| 24. v. To seize, capture or detain. | |
| 25. v. To preempt, control stringently and exclusively. | |
| 26. v. (law enforcement, transitive) To arrest. | |
| 27. v. (figuratively, transitive) To bind in conversation. | |
| I managed to collar Fred in the office for an hour. | |
| 28. v. To roll up (beef or other meat) and bind it with string preparatory to cooking. | |
| 29. v. (BDSM) To bind a submissive to a dominant under specific conditions or obligations. | |
