Antonyms for
collar
Clothes that encircle the neck.
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No Antonyms Found for Collar

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All Definitions for Collar

Below are all the dictionary definitions of collar:

1Clothes that encircle the neck.
2The part of an upper garment (shirt, jacket, etc.) that fits around the neck and throat, especially if sewn from a separate piece of fabric.
3A decorative band or other fabric around the neckline.
4A chain worn around the neck.
5A similar detachable item.
6A coloured ring round the neck of a bird or mammal.
7A band or chain around an animal's neck, used to restrain and/or identify it.
8A part of harness designed to distribute the load around the shoulders of a draft animal.
9A piece of meat from the neck of an animal.
10Any encircling device or structure.
11A physical lockout device to prevent operation of a mechanical signal lever.
12A ring or cincture.
13A collar beam.
14A curb, or a horizontal timbering, around the mouth of a shaft.
15Of or pertaining to a certain category of professions as symbolized by typical clothing.
16The neck or line of junction between the root of a plant and its stem
17A ringlike part of a mollusk in connection with the esophagus.
18An eye formed in the bight or bend of a shroud or stay to go over the masthead
19Also, a rope to which certain parts of rigging, as dead-eyes, are secured.
20An arrest.
21A 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.
22A topological neighborhood around a submanifold that can be deformed to preserve a specified condition or structure.
23To grab or seize by the collar or neck.
24To place a collar on, to fit with one.
25To surround or encircle.
26To seize, capture or detain.
27To steal.
28To preempt, control stringently and exclusively.
29To arrest.
30To bind in conversation.
31To roll up (beef or other meat) and bind it with string preparatory to cooking.
32To bind (a submissive) to a dominant under specific conditions or obligations.
33A hangman's knot.
34A surname.

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About antonyms for collar

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