different between lapel vs collar

English

Etymology

From lap +? -el (“diminutive suffix”).

Pronunciation

• (UK, US) IPA^(key): /l??p?l/

Noun

lapel (plural lapels)

1. Each of the two triangular pieces of cloth on the front of a jacket or coat that are folded back below the throat, leaving a triangular opening between.

   • His sister, Mrs. Gerard, stood there in carriage gown and sables, radiant with surprise. ¶ “Phil?!  You?!  Exactly like you, Philip, to come strolling in from the antipodes—dear fellow?!” recovering from the fraternal embrace and holding both lapels of his coat in her gloved hands.

Derived terms

• grab by the lapels
• lapel pin

Translations

Anagrams

• Pella, lepal

Volapük

Noun

lapel (nominative plural lapels)

1. appeal

Declension

English

Etymology

From Middle English coler, borrowed from Old French coler (Modern French collier), from Late Latin coll?re, from Latin coll?ris, from collum (“neck”). Cognate with Gothic ???????????????? (hals, “neck”), Old English heals (“neck”). Compare Spanish cuello (“neck”). More at halse.

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /?k?l.?/
• (US) IPA^(key): /?k?.l?/, /?k?l.?/
• Rhymes: -?l?(?)
• Homophone: caller (in accents with the cot-caught merger)

Noun

collar (plural collars)

1. Anything that encircles the neck.
   1. The part of an upper garment (shirt, jacket, etc.) that fits around the neck and throat, especially if sewn from a separate piece of fabric.

      • It was April 22, 1831, and a young man was walking down Whitehall in the direction of Parliament Street. He wore shepherd's plaid trousers and the swallow-tail coat of the day, with a figured muslin cravat wound about his wide-spread collar.
   2. A decorative band or other fabric around the neckline.
   3. A chain worn around the neck.
   4. A similar detachable item.
   5. A coloured ring round the neck of a bird or mammal.
   6. A band or chain around an animal's neck, used to restrain and/or identify it.

   7. A part of harness designed to distribute the load around the shoulders of a draft animal.
   8. (archaic) A hangman's knot.
2. A piece of meat from the neck of an animal.

3. (technology) Any encircling device or structure.
   • Popular Mechanics Complete Home How-to (page 356)

     In this case, slide the collar of the flapper over the overflow tube until it seats against the bottom of the flush valve.

   1. (rail transport) A physical lockout device to prevent operation of a mechanical signal lever.
   2. (architecture) A ring or cincture.
   3. (architecture) A collar beam.
   4. (mining) A curb, or a horizontal timbering, around the mouth of a shaft.
4. (in compounds) Of or pertaining to a certain category of professions as symbolized by typical clothing.
5. (botany) The neck or line of junction between the root of a plant and its stem.

   (Can we find and add a quotation of Gray to this entry?)

6. A ringlike part of a mollusk in connection with the esophagus.
7. (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.
8. (slang) An arrest.
9. (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.

Synonyms

• (botany): collum

Derived terms

Related terms

• accolade

Descendants

• ? Hausa: kwala
• ? Burmese: ?????? (kaula)

Translations

Verb

collar (third-person singular simple present collars, present participle collaring, simple past and past participle collared)

1. (transitive) To grab or seize by the collar or neck.
2. (transitive) To place a collar on, to fit with one.

   Collar and leash aggressive dogs.

3. (transitive) To seize, capture or detain.
4. (transitive) To preempt, control stringently and exclusively.
6. (law enforcement, transitive) To arrest.
7. (figuratively, transitive) To bind in conversation.

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

8. (transitive) To roll up (beef or other meat) and bind it with string preparatory to cooking.
9. (transitive, BDSM) To bind (a submissive) to a dominant under specific conditions or obligations.

Derived terms

• collaring

Translations

References

Anagrams

• Caroll

Asturian

Noun

collar m (plural collares)

1. necklace (jewelry)

Catalan

Pronunciation

• (Balearic) IPA^(key): /ko??a/
• (Central) IPA^(key): /ku??a/
• (Valencian) IPA^(key): /ko??a?/

Etymology 1

From Late Latin coll?re (“an unattached item worn about the neck”), from Latin coll?ris.

Noun

collar m (plural collars)

1. A collar. (a chain or belt placed around the neck of an animal)
2. A collar. (a solid circle of metal placed around the neck of a slave or prisoner)
3. A collar. (any ornament placed at the neck)
4. (historical) A collar. (a gold chain worn about the neck as a badge of belonging to certain chivalric orders)
5. A necklace.
6. (historical, military) An aventail.
7. A collar. (a ring or loop used to support and protect a rotating shaft)
8. A collar. (a ring or loop used to join together two parts of a shaft or pole)
9. (entomology) A collar. (lobed membranous expansion of the prothorax of some insects)
10. (zoology) A collar. (a band of feathers, fur, or scales about the neck of an animal that is of a contrasting color to what is near it)

Synonyms

• (necklace): collaret

Etymology 2

From the action of securing a yoke around the coll (“neck”) of an animal.

Verb

collar (first-person singular present collo, past participle collat)

1. To join together objects through the use of nuts or bolts.
2. To collar a person or animal.
3. To establish control of a person or animal.
4. To twist. (to pressure someone to do something)
5. To screw. (to tighten a screw)
6. (textiles) To adjust a collador (“heddle”).

Conjugation

Synonyms

• (to collar an animal): enjovar, junyir
• (to establish control): sotmetre, subjectar

Further reading

• “collar” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.
• “collar” in Gran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana, Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana.
• “collar” in Diccionari normatiu valencià, Acadèmia Valenciana de la Llengua.
• “collar” in Diccionari català-valencià-balear, Antoni Maria Alcover and Francesc de Borja Moll, 1962.

Spanish

Etymology

From Late Latin coll?re (“an unattached item worn about the neck”), from Latin coll?ris.

Pronunciation

Noun

collar m (plural collares)

1. necklace
2. an animal's collar, band or chain around its neck

Derived terms

• bandurria de collar

Related terms

• cuello

Further reading

• “collar” in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014.