Definition of "collar"

collar

/ˈkɒl.ə/

noun
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.
    Quotations
    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.
    1906, Stanley J[ohn] Weyman, chapter I, in Chippinge Borough, New York, N.Y.: McClure, Phillips & Co., page 01
    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.
    1918, W[illiam] B[abington] Maxwell, chapter V, in The Mirror and the Lamp, Indianapolis, Ind.: The Bobbs-Merrill Company
  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.
  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.
3. (technology) Any encircling device or structure.
  Quotations
  In this case, slide the collar of the flapper over the overflow tube until it seats against the bottom of the flush valve.
  Popular Mechanics Complete Home How-to (page 356)
  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.
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
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.
  Quotations
  The collar was made less than twenty-four hours after the hunky bastards butchered the old man.
  2013, Dorothy Uhnak, Law and Order
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.
verb
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.
3. (transitive) To seize, capture or detain.
4. (transitive) To steal.
  Quotations
  "Ho, aboard the Salt Junk Sarah,Rollin" home across the line,The Bo'sun collared the Captain's hatAnd threw it in the brine.
  1918, Norman Lindsay, The Magic Pudding, Sydney: Angus and Robertson, page 52
5. (transitive) To preempt, control stringently and exclusively.
6. (law enforcement, transitive) To arrest.
7. (figuratively, transitive) To bind in conversation.
8. (transitive) To roll up (beef or other meat) and bind it with string preparatory to cooking.
9. (transitive, BDSM) To bind (a submissive) to a dominant under specific conditions or obligations.