<p><strong>Noun</strong></p><ul><li>the part of a shirt, coat, dress, blouse, etc., that encompasses the neckline of the garment and is sewn permanently to it, often so as to fold or roll over.</li><li>a similar but separate, detachable article of clothing worn around the neck or at the neckline of a garment.</li><li>anything worn or placed around the neck.</li><li>a leather or metal band or a chain, fastened around the neck of an animal, used especially as a means of restraint or identification.</li><li>the part of the harness that fits across the withers and over the shoulders of a draft animal, designed to distribute the pressure of the load drawn.</li><li>an ornamental necklace worn as insignia of an order of knighthood.</li><li>a narrow strip of leather or other material stitched around the top of a shoe as reinforcement or trimming.</li><li>Zoology: any of various collar-like markings or structures around the neck; torque.</li><li>Metallurgy: a raised area of metal for reinforcing a weld.</li><li>a raised rim at the end of a roll in a rolling mill to check lateral expansion of the metal being rolled.</li><li>Machinery: a short ring formed on or fastened over a rod or shaft as a locating or holding part.</li><li>the upper rim of a borehole, shot hole, or mine shaft.</li><li>a narrow horizontal molding encircling the top or bottom of a furniture leg.</li><li>Informal: an arrest; capture.</li><li>a person placed under arrest.</li></ul><p><strong>Verb</strong></p><ul><li>to put a collar on; furnish with a collar.</li><li>to seize by the collar or neck.</li><li>to detain (someone anxious to leave) in conversation.</li><li>to lay hold of, seize, or take.</li><li>Informal: to place under arrest.</li><li>to roll up and bind (meat, fish, etc.) for cooking.</li></ul>