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Henry III wearing a high collar

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.

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.
      Synonyms: halter; see also Thesaurus:hangman's noose
  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.
  10. (mathematics) A topological neighborhood around a submanifold that can be deformed to preserve a specified condition or structure.

fabric garment part fitting around throat

chain worn around the neck

detachable collar

device for restraining animal

part of harness

in compounds: of or pertaining to a certain category of professions

rail transport: physical lockout device

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.
    • 1988 November 8, R.E.M., “Orange Crush”, in Green:
      (Follow me, don't follow me.) I've got my spine, I've got my orange crush.
      (Collar me, don't collar me.) I've got my spine, I've got my orange crush.
  3. To surround or encircle.
  4. (transitive) To seize, capture or detain.
  5. (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.
  6. (transitive) To preempt, control stringently and exclusively.
  7. (law enforcement, transitive) To arrest.
    • 2025 May 15, “Europe’s free-speech problem”, in The Economist‎[2]:
      Britain’s police are especially zealous. Officers spend thousands of hours sifting through potentially offensive posts and arrest 30 people a day. Among those collared were a man who ranted about immigration on Facebook and a couple who criticised their daughter’s primary school.
  8. (figuratively, transitive) To bind in conversation.
    I managed to collar Fred in the office for an hour.
    • 1981 December 19, Nancy Wechsler, Christine Delphy, “Politics In France”, in Gay Community News, volume 9, number 22, page 8:
      They go in and lobby, collar the representatives and ask: are you for or against?
  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.

to grab or seize by collar or neck

to place a collar on

to control stringently and exclusively

  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.

collar m (plural collares)

  1. necklace (jewelry)

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

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)

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

collar (first-person singular present collo, first-person singular preterite collí, past participle collat); root stress: (Central, Valencia, 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”)

collar m (plural collares)

  1. pre-reform spelling (used until 1943 in Brazil and 1911 in Portugal) of colar

collar (first-person singular present collo, first-person singular preterite collei, past participle collado)

  1. pre-reform spelling (used until 1943 in Brazil and 1911 in Portugal) of colar
    • 1938, Graciliano Ramos, “Baleia”, in Vidas Seccas [Barren Lives]‎[3], Rio de Janeiro: Livraria José Olympio Editora, pages 131–132:
      Gostava de espojar-se ali, cobria-se de poeira, evitava as moscas e os mosquitos, e quando se levantava, tinha folhas seccas e gravetos collados ás feridas, era um bicho differente dos outros.
      She liked to wallow there, covering herself with dust, keeping the flies and mosquitoes away, and when she got up, dried leaves and twigs were stuck to her wounds: she’d become an animal unlike the others.

Probably borrowed from Catalan collar, given the lack of the expected diphthong ue as the reflex of short o.[1]

collar m (plural collares)

  1. necklace
  2. an animal's collar, band or chain around its neck
  1. ^ Coromines, Joan; Pascual, José Antonio (1984), “collar”, in Diccionario crítico etimológico castellano e hispánico [Critical Castilian and Hispanic etymological dictionary]‎[1] (in Spanish), volume II (Ce–F), Madrid: Gredos, →ISBN, page 148