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Collar   /kˈɑlər/   Listen
Collar

noun
1.
A band that fits around the neck and is usually folded over.  Synonym: neckband.
2.
(zoology) an encircling band or marking around the neck of any animal.
3.
Anything worn or placed about the neck.  "A collar of flowers was placed about the neck of the winning horse"
4.
A short ring fastened over a rod or shaft to limit, guide, or secure a machine part.
5.
The stitching that forms the rim of a shoe or boot.  Synonym: shoe collar.
6.
A band of leather or rope that is placed around an animal's neck as a harness or to identify it.
7.
Necklace that fits tightly around a woman's neck.  Synonyms: choker, dog collar, neckband.
8.
A figurative restraint.  Synonym: leash.  "Kept a tight leash on his emotions" , "He's always gotten a long leash"
9.
The act of apprehending (especially apprehending a criminal).  Synonyms: apprehension, arrest, catch, pinch, taking into custody.
verb
(past & past part. collared; pres. part. collaring)
1.
Take into custody.  Synonyms: apprehend, arrest, cop, nab, nail, pick up.
2.
Seize by the neck or collar.
3.
Furnish with a collar.



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"Collar" Quotes from Famous Books



... aroma to the close leathery atmosphere. Crowl cobbled away, talking to his tenant without raising his eyes. He was a small, big-headed, sallow, sad-eyed man, with a greasy apron. Denzil was wearing a heavy overcoat with a fur collar. He was never seen without it in public during the winter. In private he removed it and sat in his shirt sleeves. Crowl was a thinker, or thought he was—which seems to involve original thinking anyway. His hair was thinning rapidly at the top, as if his brain was struggling to get as near ...
— The Big Bow Mystery • I. Zangwill
... spruced appearance, might have been taken for Mr. J. Quincy Plume. The young woman having intrusted herself to his guidance, he conducted her across the ferry, and on the other side they were met by a gentleman, who wore the collar of his overcoat turned up. After a meeting more or less formal on one side and cordial on the other, the gentleman gave a brief direction to Mr. Plume, and, with the lady, entered a carriage which was waiting and drove off; Mr. Plume following ...
— Gordon Keith • Thomas Nelson Page
... beautiful. They are used for polishing hardwood floors; they serve as a substitute for plates at the tianguis and for wrapping-paper at the small native and Chinese grocers' shops. In rural places if a carromata driver cannot find a leather horse-collar, ...
— The Philippine Islands • John Foreman
... sacks held golden ewers and vessels of strange workmanship and pantomimic proportions; the chests were full of jewels—ropes of creamy-pink pearls as large as average onions, strings of uncut rubies and emeralds, the smallest of which would have been a tight fit in an ordinary collar-box, and diamonds, roughly facetted and polished, each the size of a coconut, in whose hearts quivered a liquid ...
— The Brass Bottle • F. Anstey
... not alarmed by Talizac's mad attempt. She calmly lifted him by the collar and landed him on the stairs, ...
— The Son of Monte Cristo • Jules Lermina


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