Clothes that encircle the neck. • 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. • A decorative band or other fabric around the neckline. • A chain worn around the neck. • A similar detachable item. • A coloured ring round the neck of a bird or mammal. • A band or chain around an animal's neck, used to restrain and/or identify it. • A part of harness designed to distribute the load around the shoulders of a draft animal. • A hangman's knot. • A piece of meat from the neck of an animal. • Any encircling device or structure. • A physical lockout device to prevent operation of a mechanical signal lever. • A ring or cincture. • A collar beam. • A curb, or a horizontal timbering, around the mouth of a shaft. • Of or pertaining to a certain category of professions as symbolized by typical clothing. • 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. • 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. • An arrest. • 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. • A topological neighborhood around a submanifold that can be deformed to preserve a specified condition or structure.