different between ribbon vs collar

English

Etymology

From Middle English riban, ryban, ryband, from Old French riban, ruban ( > modern French ruban), of uncertain origin. Likely from a Germanic compound whose second element is cognate with English band. Compare Middle Dutch ringhband (“necklace”, literally “ring-band”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /???b?n/
• Rhymes: -?b?n

Noun

ribbon (countable and uncountable, plural ribbons)

1. A long, narrow strip of material used for decoration of clothing or the hair or gift wrapping.
2. An awareness ribbon.
3. An inked strip of material against which type is pressed to print letters in a typewriter or printer.
4. A narrow strip or shred.

   a steel or magnesium ribbon

   sails torn to ribbons

   1. (cooking) In ice cream and similar confections, an ingredient (often chocolate, butterscotch, caramel, or fudge) added in a long narrow strip.
5. (shipbuilding) Alternative form of ribband
6. (nautical) A painted moulding on the side of a ship.
7. A watchspring.
8. A bandsaw.
9. (slang, dated, in the plural) Reins for a horse.
   • 1887, James Inglis, Our New Zealand Cousins

     "Here, sir, hold the ribbons." This to me, throwing me the reins. Jack got down from his perch, and after a little search in the bush was rewarded by the capture of the poor dazed pigeon, who was consigned to safe custody in the boot.

10. (heraldry) A bearing similar to the bend, but only one eighth as wide.
11. (spinning) A sliver.
12. (journalism) A subheadline presented above its parent headline.
13. (computing, graphical user interface) A toolbar that incorporates tabs and menus.

Derived terms

Descendants

• ? Japanese: ??? (ribon)
• ? Korean: ?? (ribon)

Translations

See also

• riband

Verb

ribbon (third-person singular simple present ribbons, present participle ribboning, simple past and past participle ribboned)

1. (transitive) To decorate with ribbon.

   Synonym: beribbon

2. (transitive) To stripe or streak.

Anagrams

• Robbin, robbin

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.