collar

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English[edit]

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Henry III wearing a high collar

Etymology[edit]

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.

Pronunciation[edit]

Noun[edit]

collar (plural collars)

  1. Clothes that encircle the neck.
    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.
      • 1906, Stanley J[ohn] Weyman, chapter I, in Chippinge Borough, New York, N.Y.: McClure, Phillips & Co., →OCLC, page 01:
        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.
      • 1918, W[illiam] B[abington] Maxwell, chapter V, in The Mirror and the Lamp, Indianapolis, Ind.: The Bobbs-Merrill Company, →OCLC:
        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.
    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.
  2. A piece of meat from the neck of an animal.
    a collar of brawn
  3. (technology) Any encircling device or structure.
    A nylon collar kept the bolt from damaging the surface underneath.
    • Popular Mechanics Complete Home How-to (page 356)
      In this case, slide the collar of the flapper over the overflow tube until it seats against the bottom of the flush valve.
    1. (rail transport) A physical lockout device to prevent operation of a mechanical signal lever.
    2. (architecture) A ring or cincture.
    3. (architecture) A collar beam.
    4. (mining) A curb, or a horizontal timbering, around the mouth of a shaft.[1]
  4. (in compounds) Of or pertaining to a certain category of professions as symbolized by typical clothing.
  5. (botany) The neck or line of junction between the root of a plant and its stem[2]
  6. A ringlike part of a mollusk in connection with the esophagus.
  7. (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.
  8. (slang) An arrest.
    • 2013, Dorothy Uhnak, Law and Order:
      The collar was made less than twenty-four hours after the hunky bastards butchered the old man.
  9. (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 different strike prices.

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Descendants[edit]

  • → Hausa: kwala
  • → Burmese: ကော်လာ (kaula)
  • → Swahili: kola

Translations[edit]

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Verb[edit]

collar (third-person singular simple present collars, present participle collaring, simple past and past participle 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. (transitive) To seize, capture or detain.
  4. (transitive) To steal.
    • 1918, Norman Lindsay, The Magic Pudding, Sydney: Angus and Robertson, page 52:
      "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.
  5. (transitive) To preempt, control stringently and exclusively.
  7. (law enforcement, transitive) To arrest.
  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, BDSM) To bind (a submissive) to a dominant under specific conditions or obligations.

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Translations[edit]

to arrest — see arrest
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References[edit]

  1. ^ Rossiter W[orthington] Raymond (1881) “Collar”, in A Glossary of Mining and Metallurgical Terms. […], Easton, Pa.: [American] Institute [of Mining Engineers], […], →OCLC.
  2. ^ Asa Gray (1857) “[Glossary […].] Collar.”, in First Lessons in Botany and Vegetable Physiology, […], New York, N.Y.: Ivison & Phinney and G[eorge] P[almer] Putnam & Co., […], →OCLC.

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Asturian[edit]

Noun[edit]

collar m (plural collares)

  1. necklace (jewelry)

Catalan[edit]

Pronunciation[edit]

Etymology 1[edit]

Inherited from Late Latin collāre (“an unattached item worn about the neck”), from Latin collāris.

Noun[edit]

collar m (plural collars)

  1. a collar (a chain or belt placed around the neck of an animal)
  2. a collar (a solid circle of metal placed around the neck of a slave or prisoner)
  3. a collar (any ornament placed at the neck)
  4. (historical) a collar (a gold chain worn about the neck as a badge of belonging to certain chivalric orders)
  5. a necklace
    Synonym: collaret
  6. (historical, military) an aventail
  7. a collar (a ring or loop used to support and protect a rotating shaft)
  8. a collar (a ring or loop used to join together two parts of a shaft or pole)
  9. (entomology) a collar (lobed membranous expansion of the prothorax of some insects)
  10. (zoology) a collar (a band of feathers, fur, or scales about the neck of an animal that is of a contrasting color to what is near it)

Etymology 2[edit]

From the action of securing a yoke around the coll (“neck”) of an animal.

Verb[edit]

collar (first-person singular present collo, first-person singular preterite collí, past participle collat); root stress: (Central, Valencian, Balearic) /ɔ/

  1. to join together objects through the use of nuts or bolts
  2. to collar a person or animal
    Synonyms: enjovar, junyir
  3. to establish control of a person or animal
    Synonyms: sotmetre, subjectar
  4. to twist (to pressure someone)
  5. to screw (to tighten a screw)
  6. (textiles) to adjust a collador (“heddle”)
Conjugation[edit]
    Conjugation of collar (first conjugation)
infinitive collar
gerund collant
past participle masculine feminine
singular collat collada
plural collats collades
person singular plural
first second third first second third
indicative jo tu ell/ella
vostè 		nosaltres
nós 		vosaltres
vós 		ells/elles
vostès
present collo colles colla collem colleu collen
imperfect collava collaves collava collàvem collàveu collaven
future collaré collaràs collarà collarem collareu collaran
preterite collí collares collà collàrem collàreu collaren
conditional collaria collaries collaria collaríem collaríeu collarien
subjunctive jo tu ell/ella
vostè 		nosaltres
nós 		vosaltres
vós 		ells/elles
vostès
present colli collis colli collem colleu collin
imperfect collés collessis collés colléssim colléssiu collessin
imperative — tu vostè nosaltres vosaltres
vós 		vostès
affirmative — colla colli collem colleu collin
negative (no) — no collis no colli no collem no colleu no collin

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Spanish[edit]

Etymology[edit]

Inherited from Late Latin collāre (“an unattached item worn about the neck”), from Latin collāris.

Pronunciation[edit]

 
  • IPA(key): (most of Spain and Latin America) /koˈʝaɾ/ [koˈʝaɾ]
  • IPA(key): (rural northern Spain, Andes Mountains) /koˈʎaɾ/ [koˈʎaɾ]
  • IPA(key): (Buenos Aires and environs) /koˈʃaɾ/ [koˈʃaɾ]
  • IPA(key): (elsewhere in Argentina and Uruguay) /koˈʒaɾ/ [koˈʒaɾ]

  • Rhymes: -aɾ
  • Syllabification: co‧llar

Noun[edit]

collar m (plural collares)

  1. necklace
  2. an animal's collar, band or chain around its neck

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