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.
throat
1. s. Garganta.
throat
1. s. The front part of the neck.
The wild pitch bounced and hit the catcher in the throat.
2. s. The gullet or windpipe.
As I swallowed I felt something strange in my throat.
3. s. A narrow opening in a vessel.
The water leaked out from the throat of the bottle.
4. s. Station throat.
5. s. The part of a chimney between the gathering, or portion of the funnel which contracts in ascending, and the flue.
6. s. (nautical) The upper fore corner of a boom-and-gaff sail, or of a staysail.
7. s. (nautical) That end of a gaff which is next the mast.
8. s. (nautical) The angle where the arm of an anchor is joined to the shank.
9. s. (shipbuilding) The inside of a timber knee.
10. s. (botany) The orifice of a tubular organ; the outer end of the tube of a monopetalous corolla; the faux, or fauces.
11. v. (now uncommon) To utter in or with the throat.
to throat threats
12. v. (informal) To take into the throat. (Compare deepthroat).
13. v. (dialect) To mow (beans, etc.) in a direction against their bending.
bottleneck
bottleneck
1. s. The narrow portion that forms the pouring spout of a bottle; the neck of a bottle.
2. s. In traffic, any narrowing of the road, especially resulting in a delay.
3. s. The part of a process that is too slow or cumbersome.
It is easy to create entries; processing the paperwork is the bottleneck.
The bottleneck in this computer program is the inefficient sorting process; we should replace it with a faster one.
4. v. To slow by causing a bottleneck.
The merge bottlenecked the traffic every morning.
5. v. (intransitive) To form a bottleneck.
The traffic bottlenecked at the merge every morning.
