Definition of "collar" in İngilizce

noun

1. Clothes that encircle the neck.

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.
   • In this case, slide the collar of the flapper over the overflow tube until it seats against the bottom of the flush valve.

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.

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.

verb

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.

3. To surround or encircle.

4. (transitive) To seize, capture or detain.

5. (transitive) To steal.

6. (transitive) To preempt, control stringently and exclusively.

7. (law enforcement, transitive) To arrest.

8. (figuratively, transitive) To bind in conversation.

   • I managed to collar Fred in the office for an hour.

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.