different between collier vs necklace

English

Etymology

From Middle English colier, from col (“coal”)

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /?k?l??(?)/
• (US) enPR: käl??-?r, IPA^(key): /?k?li?/

Noun

collier (plural colliers)

1. A person in the business or occupation of producing (digging or mining) coal or making charcoal or in its transporting or commerce.
   • 1957, H.R. Schubert, History of the British Iron and Steel Industry, p. 224.

     For this reason, the collier took constant care to keep the covering of earth in good order.

2. (nautical) A vessel carrying a bulk cargo of coal.
3. (nautical) A sailor on such a vessel.
4. (slang, used by the traveller community) A non-traveller.

Related terms

• Colliers Wood
• colliery

Translations

References

• Webster's Seventh New Collegiate Dictionary, Springfield, Massachusetts, G.&C. Merriam Co., 1967

Anagrams

• Coriell

Danish

Noun

collier c

1. indefinite plural of collie

French

Etymology

From Old French coler, from Late Latin coll?re.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /k?.lje/

Noun

collier m (plural colliers)

1. A necklace, string-shaped jewel worn around the neck
2. collar (e.g. of a dog)
3. collar (on animals, colored fur around the neck)

Derived terms

• couleuvre à collier

Related terms

• cou m, col

Descendants

• ? German: Kollier, Collier n
• ? Greek: ????? m (kolié, “necklace”)
• ? Russian: ?????? n (kol?jé, “necklace”)
• ? Turkish: kolye (“necklace”)

References

• Nouveau Petit Larousse illustré. Dictionnaire encyclopédique. Paris, Librairie Larousse, 1952, 146th edition

Further reading

• “collier” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

Italian

Etymology

Borrowed from French collier.

Noun

collier m (invariable)

1. A necklace, string-shaped jewel worn around the neck

Related terms

• collo m

Swedish

Noun

collier

1. indefinite plural of collie

English

Etymology

neck +? lace

Pronunciation

• (US) IPA^(key): /?n?kl?s/
• (UK) IPA^(key): /?n?kl?s/, /?n?kl?s/

Noun

necklace (plural necklaces)

1. An article of jewelry that is worn around the neck, most often made of a string of precious metal, pearls, gems, beads or shells, and sometimes having a pendant attached.
2. (figuratively) Anything resembling a necklace in shape.

   a necklace of coral islands

3. (South Africa) A device used in necklacing (an informal execution); a rubber tyre that is filled with petrol. It is placed around the victim's chest and arms, and set on fire.
   • Necklacing on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
   • 4 August, 2004 Headline Pretoria News: Necklacing: 7 held.

     Seven people have been arrested in connection with Saturday's "necklace" murder of three men in the Tjokville informal settlement at Jeffrey's Bay.

   • 2000 Beyond Our Wildest Dreams: The United Democratic Front and the Transformation of South Africa by Ineke Van Kessel

     Several of the alledged witches in Apel and GaNkaone were also subjected to a necklace execution

   • 2004 A Human Being Died That Night: A South African Woman Confronts the Legacy of Apartheid by Pumla Gobodo-Madikizela

     In the fluidly unfolding events of a necklace murder, was there time and space to stop the killing?

Translations

Verb

necklace (third-person singular simple present necklaces, present participle necklacing, simple past and past participle necklaced)

1. (South Africa) To informally execute by necklacing; by setting on fire a petrol-filled rubber tyre which has been put around the bound victim's neck.
   • May 29 2003: The Star:

     Frustrated residents tied the hands of two suspected criminals, put tyres around their necks and then set them alight. In a manifestation of growing disillusionment with the criminal justice system, residents of Bramfischerville, west of Johannesburg, on Tuesday abducted and necklaced two suspected burglars.

   • 2002 Buthelezi: A Biography by Ben Temkin

     Inkatha members have been hacked to death and necklaced, and their houses have been destroyed

   • 2000 Beyond Our Wildest Dreams: The United Democratic Front and the Transformation of South Africa by Ineke Van Kessel

     The first instance of necklacing occurred in March 1985 in the Eastern Cape township of KwaNobuhle.

Derived terms

• necklacing
• pearl necklace

See also

• necklace on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• collar (necklace for animals)