collar

== English == === Etymology === 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. Doublet of collet. === Pronunciation === (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /ˈkɒlə/ (Standard Southern British, General Australian) IPA(key): /ˈkɔlə/ (US) IPA(key): /ˈkɑlɚ/ (Canada) IPA(key): /ˈkɒlɚ/ (Scotland) IPA(key): /ˈkɔləɾ/ (New Zealand) IPA(key): /ˈkɒlə/, /ˈkɔ̟lə/ Homophone: caller (cot–caught merger) Hyphenation: col‧lar Rhymes: -ɒlə(ɹ) === Noun === collar (plural collars) Clothes that encircle the neck. 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. A decorative band or other fabric around the neckline. A chain worn around the neck. A similar detachable item. A coloured ring round the neck of a bird or mammal. A band or chain around an animal's neck, used to restrain and/or identify it. A part of harness designed to distribute the load around the shoulders of a draft animal. (archaic) A hangman's knot. Synonyms: halter; see also Thesaurus:hangman's noose A piece of meat from the neck of an animal. (technology) Any encircling device or structure. 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. (rail transport) A physical lockout device to prevent operation of a mechanical signal lever. (architecture) A ring or cincture. (architecture) A collar beam. (mining) A curb, or a horizontal timbering, around the mouth of a shaft. (in compounds) Of or pertaining to a certain category of professions as symbolized by typical clothing. (botany) The neck or line of junction between the root of a plant and its stem A ringlike part of a mollusk in connection with the esophagus. (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. (slang) An arrest. (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. (mathematics) A topological neighborhood around a submanifold that can be deformed to preserve a specified condition or structure. ==== Synonyms ==== (botany): collum ==== Derived terms ==== ==== Related terms ==== accolade ==== Descendants ==== → Hausa: kwala → Burmese: ကော်လာ (kaula) → Swahili: kola ==== Translations ==== === Verb === collar (third-person singular simple present collars, present participle collaring, simple past and past participle collared) (transitive) To grab or seize by the collar or neck. (transitive) To place a collar on, to fit with one. To surround or encircle. (transitive) To seize, capture or detain. (transitive) To steal. (transitive) To preempt, control stringently and exclusively. (law enforcement, transitive) To arrest. (figuratively, transitive) To bind in conversation. (transitive) To roll up (beef or other meat) and bind it with string preparatory to cooking. (transitive, BDSM) To bind (a submissive) to a dominant under specific conditions or obligations. ==== Derived terms ==== collar the bowling collar up collaring recollar ==== Translations ==== === References === === Anagrams === Caroll, Croall == Asturian == === Noun === collar m (plural collares) necklace (jewelry) == Catalan == === Pronunciation === IPA(key): (Northern, Central) [kuˈʎa] IPA(key): (Balearic, Northwestern) [koˈʎa] IPA(key): (Valencia) [koˈʎaɾ] === Etymology 1 === Inherited from Late Latin collāre (“an unattached item worn about the neck”), from Latin collāris. ==== Noun ==== collar m (plural collars) a collar (a chain or belt placed around the neck of an animal) a collar (a solid circle of metal placed around the neck of a slave or prisoner) a collar (any ornament placed at the neck) (historical) a collar (a gold chain worn about the neck as a badge of belonging to certain chivalric orders) a necklace Synonym: collaret (historical, military) an aventail a collar (a ring or loop used to support and protect a rotating shaft) a collar (a ring or loop used to join together two parts of a shaft or pole) (entomology) a collar (lobed membranous expansion of the prothorax of some insects) (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 === From the action of securing a yoke around the coll (“neck”) of an animal. Compare Sicilian accuḍḍari. ==== Verb ==== collar (first-person singular present collo, first-person singular preterite collí, past participle collat); root stress: (Northern) /o̞/; (Balearic, Central, Northwestern, Valencia) /ɔ/ to join together objects through the use of nuts or bolts to collar a person or animal Synonyms: enjovar, junyir to establish control of a person or animal Synonyms: sotmetre, subjectar to twist (to pressure someone) to screw (to tighten a screw) (textiles) to adjust a collador (“heddle”) ===== Conjugation ===== === Further reading === “collar”, in Diccionari de la llengua catalana [Dictionary of the Catalan Language] (in Catalan), second edition, Institute of Catalan Studies [Catalan: Institut d'Estudis Catalans], April 2007 “collar”, in Gran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana, Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana, 2026 “collar” in Diccionari normatiu valencià, Acadèmia Valenciana de la Llengua. Alcover, Antoni Maria; Moll, Francesc de Borja (1963), “collar”, in Diccionari català-valencià-balear (in Catalan) == Portuguese == === Etymology 1 === ==== Noun ==== collar m (plural collares) pre-reform spelling (used until 1943 in Brazil and 1911 in Portugal) of colar === Etymology 2 === ==== Verb ==== collar (first-person singular present collo, first-person singular preterite collei, past participle collado) pre-reform spelling (used until 1943 in Brazil and 1911 in Portugal) of colar ===== Conjugation ===== == Spanish == === Etymology === Probably borrowed from Catalan collar, given the lack of the expected diphthong ue as the reflex of short o. === Pronunciation === Rhymes: -aɾ Syllabification: co‧llar === Noun === collar m (plural collares) necklace an animal's collar, band or chain around its neck ==== Derived terms ==== ==== Related terms ==== ==== References ==== ==== Further reading ==== “collar”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8.1, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 15 December 2025