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collar

The English word “collar” has 32 meanings listed here.

  1. Clothes that encircle the neck.
  2. 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. A decorative band or other fabric around the neckline.
  4. A chain worn around the neck.
  5. A similar detachable item.
  6. A coloured ring round the neck of a bird or mammal.
  7. A band or chain around an animal's neck, used to restrain and/or identify it.
  8. A part of harness designed to distribute the load around the shoulders of a draft animal.
  9. A hangman's knot.
  10. A piece of meat from the neck of an animal.
  11. Any encircling device or structure.
  12. A physical lockout device to prevent operation of a mechanical signal lever.
  13. A ring or cincture.
  14. A collar beam.
  15. A curb, or a horizontal timbering, around the mouth of a shaft.
  16. Of or pertaining to a certain category of professions as symbolized by typical clothing.
  17. The neck or line of junction between the root of a plant and its stem
  18. A ringlike part of a mollusk in connection with the esophagus.
  19. 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. An arrest.
  21. 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.
  22. A topological neighborhood around a submanifold that can be deformed to preserve a specified condition or structure.
  23. To grab or seize by the collar or neck.
  24. To place a collar on, to fit with one.
  25. To surround or encircle.
  26. To seize, capture or detain.
  27. To steal.
  28. To preempt, control stringently and exclusively.
  29. To arrest.
  30. To bind in conversation.
  31. To roll up (beef or other meat) and bind it with string preparatory to cooking.
  32. To bind (a submissive) to a dominant under specific conditions or obligations.
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