A clothing item that encircles the neck, either as part of an upper garment or as a separate decorative band, as well as a chain or detachable item worn around the neck, a colored ring around the neck of a bird or mammal, a band or chain used to restrain or identify an animal, and a part of harness for distributing load on a draft animal's shoulders.

A piece of meat from the neck of an animal.

(technology) An encircling device or structure, such as a lockout device in rail transport, a ring or cincture in architecture, a collar beam in architecture, or a curb or horizontal timbering around the mouth of a shaft in mining.

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

(botany) The neck or line of junction between the root of a plant and its stem

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

(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.

(slang) An arrest.

(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.

(transitive) To grab or seize by the collar or neck.

(transitive) To place a collar on, to fit with one.

(transitive) To seize, capture or detain.

(transitive) To steal.

(transitive) To preempt, control stringently and exclusively.

(law enforcement, transitive) To arrest.

(figurative, transitive) To bind in conversation.

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

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