Word Finder - collar

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Anything that encircles the neck.

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A piece of meat from the neck of an animal.

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a collar of brawn

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Any encircling device or structure.

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A nylon collar kept the bolt from damaging the surface underneath.

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(in compounds) Of or pertaining to a certain category of professions as symbolized by typical clothing.

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The neck or line of junction between the root of a plant and its stem.

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A ringlike part of a mollusk in connection with the esophagus.

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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.

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An arrest.

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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.

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To grab or seize by the collar or neck.

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To place a collar on, to fit with one.

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Collar and leash aggressive dogs.

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To seize, capture or detain.

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To preempt, control stringently and exclusively.

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(law enforcement) To arrest.

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To bind in conversation.

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

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To roll up (beef or other meat) and bind it with string preparatory to cooking.

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(BDSM) To bind (a submissive) to a dominant under specific conditions or obligations.

She tugged at his collar again, but it was useless.

He loosened his collar and tie out of absolute necessity.

She wore a collar like a dog with her master's name on it.

This is the collar nerve-tube.

Winston crossed over to Baratto with surprising speed and grabbed him by the collar, nearly lifting him off the ground.

I see the collar.

He.s wearing a collar.

She unfolded her jacket collar and hunkered down in the saddle, cold and miserable.

The collar-pores are remarkable for their constancy; this is probably owing to the fact that they have become adapted to a special function, the inhalation of water to render the collar turgid during progression.

Darkyn studied him and then withdrew a thin collar and approached.

The nervous system is represented by an oesophageal collar and a suboesophageal ganglion, whence paired nerves pass outwards to innervate the anterior extremity and backwards towards its posterior end.

By the waves of contraction executed by the proboscis accompanied by inflation of the collar, progression is effected, sometimes with marvellous rapidity.

In accordance with this manner of feeding, the mouth is kept permanently open and prevented from collapsing by a pair of skeletal cornua belonging to a sustentacular apparatus (the nuchal skeleton), the body of which lies within the narrow neck of the proboscis; the latter is inserted into the collar and surrounded by the anterior free flap of this segment of the body.

In one family, the Ptychoderidae, the medullary tube of the collar is connected at intermediate points with the epidermis by means of a variable number of unpaired outgrowths from its dorsal wall, generally containing an axial lumen derived from and in continuity with the central canal.

The dress was full length, rather plain, with a high collar.

In the hall of a raja on state occasions a head-kerchief twisted into a peak is worn, and the coat is furnished with a high collar extending round the back of the neck only.

Use a fully adjustable head collar to avoid losing control of the horse.

At last seizing a soldier by his collar he forced him to answer.

The curly- headed, delicate boy sat with shining eyes unnoticed in a corner, starting every now and then and muttering something to himself, and evidently experiencing a new and powerful emotion as he turned his curly head, with his thin neck exposed by his turn-down collar, toward the place where Pierre sat.

He looks so smart in his sailor hat and collar.

The dorsal half of the collar is the cerebral commissure, the ventral the labial commissure.

At the point of the collar whence the nerve-cords arise are the cerebral ganglia; from these one pair of connectives passes to a pair of pedal ganglia, and another pair of connectives to a pair of pleural ganglia.

The perioesophageal nerve-ring of Chaetopoda and Arthropoda is represented, not by the collar first mentioned in the above description, but by the commissures connecting the cerebral and pedal ganglia.

Borchers also used an externally heated metal vessel as the cathode; it is provided with a supporting collar or flange a little below the top, so that the upper part of the vessel is exposed to the cooling influence of the air, in order that a crust of solidified salt may there be formed, and so prevent the creeping of the electrolyte over the top. The carbon anode passes through the cover of a porcelain cylinder, open at the bottom, and provided with a side-tube at the top to remove the chlorine formed during electrolysis.

Generally speaking, the insignia of the " knights grand cross " consist of a star worn on the left breast and a badge, usually some form either of the cross patee or of the Maltese cross, worn suspended from a ribbon over the shoulder or, in certain cases, on days of high ceremonial from a collar.

The collar is formed of thistles, alternating with sprigs of rue, and the motto is Nemo me impune lacessit.

The collar is formed of alternate roses with red and white leaves, and gold harps linked by gold knots; the badge is suspended from a harp surmounted by an imperial jewelled crown.

The collar of the Star of India is composed of alternate links of the lotus flower, red and white roses and palm branches enamelled on gold, with an imperial crown in the centre; that of the Indian Empire is composed of elephants, peacocks and Indian roses.

The badges of the two branches vary slightly in detail, more particularly in the attachment of fire-stones (fusils or furisons) and steels by which the fleece is attached to the ribbon of the collar.

The collar is composed of alternate links of furisons and double steels interlaced to form the letter B for Burgundy.

The collar, only worn by the knights grand cross, is of gold, and consists of Hungarian crowns linked together alternately by the monograms of St Stephen, S.S., and the foundress, M.T.; the centre of the collar is formed by a flying lark encircled by the motto Stringit amore.

The ribbon is light watered blue, the collar of alternate gold elephants with blue housings and towers, the star of silver with a purple medallion bearing a silver or brilliant cross surrounded by a silver laurel wreath.

The grand master alone wears a collar.

The knights wore a collar of golden hunting horns, whence the order was also known as the Order of the Horn.

The collar is composed of gold and blue enamel figures of the conversion linked by the Gothic monogram I.T.V., Trau Vast, the motto of the order, alternately red and green.

The collar is formed of alternate black eagles and a circular medallion with the motto on a white centre surrounded by the initials F.R.

The older form is worn with the collar by the grand-crosses.

The collar is composed of three members alternately, the imperial eagle bearing on a red medallion a figure of St George slaying the Dragon, the badge of the grand duchy of Moskow, the cipher of the emperor Paul I.

The Order of St Lazarus is not a general order, the cross and collar being only worn by the king.

The collar is formed of alternate gold seraphim and blue enamelled patriarchal crosses.

The collar, which may be granted with the order or later, is composed of four members repeated, two gold chrysanthemums, one with green leaves, the other surrounded by a wreath of palm, and two elaborate arabesque designs.

It is put on after the alb, &c., and under the tunicle, dalmatic and chasuble, but then drawn up so as to fall over the latter like a collar.

In Europe and America it is much used for collar, long facings and cuffs of a gentleman's coat; such a set may cost from, 200 to boo, and in all probability will soon cost more.

To the legs is screwed a plate 00, which supports the lower side of the plate PP. This receives the ends of the screws SS by which the instrument is levelled, its annular portion being larger than the collar in 00, so that, until clamped by the screwed plate above it, the whole of the instrument except the legs can be moved horizontally in any direction to the extent of about in.

A collar is provided, which when tightened on the vertical axis, otherwise free to move, holds it rigidly in position with respect to the plate PP. To this collar is attached a slow-motion screw, working against a reaction spring, by which the plate rr can be rotated through a small arc. The upper plate carrying two, three .or four verniers vv is attached to a vertical coned pillar passing through the centre of the larger pillar and rotating in it; this plate can be clamped to the lower plate by means of the screw C, and can be rotated with respect to it by the slow-motion screw d.

The reins were passed through rings attached to the collar bands or yoke, and were long enough to be tied round the waist of the charioteer in case of his having to defend himself.

The reading of 15thand 16thcentury verse in the light of these will bring home the critical error of treating such poems as Burns's Collar's Saturday Night, the Address to the Deil, and Scotch Drink as entirely expressions of the later poet's personal predilection.

The first of these differs in several respects from those which succeed, and has been called the collar cavity (MacBride).

Close by was found a horse collar with 14 bronze bells.

He is now the only judicial functionary privileged to wear the collar of SS.