COLLAR

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collar I. substantiv

1. guler(aş);

Eton collar guler mare detaşabil;

false collar guler separat, detaşabil;

lie-down collar guler răsfrânt;

(fam.) to take / to seize by the collar a apuca de guler (pe cineva).

2. colier, colan, salbă, gherdan.

3. zgardă;

training collar zgardă cu dinţi de fier (pentru dresatul câinilor).

4. jug, ham (la cai);

to slip the collar a scutura jugul;

to wear the collar a purta jugul; a fi slugă.

5. (bot.) teacă.

6. (tehn.) brăţară; guler; virelă; bucşă, bucea, cămaşă, garnitură de etanşare, presgarnitură, presetupă, ring, inel; şină, cerc; şaibă, rondelă; flanşă.

7. (mine) gura unui puţ de foraj.

8. (mar.) inel de manevră.

9. (gastr.) ruladă.

10. împrejmuire, ţarc; centură, oprintiş.

◊ against the collar a) în susul dealului; b) (fig.) peptiş, greu, cu trudă;

in collar la antrenament, angajat;

(fam.) out of collar fără lucru / slujbă, pe liber, pe dinafară, pe verde;

to work up to the collar a lucra fără odihnă / din greu / pe brânci;

to give a pull at the collar a da o mână de ajutor.

collar II. verb tranzitiv

1. (şi fig.) a înhăma, a pune zgardă (cu dat.).

2. a lua, a înhăţa, a înşfăca de guler.

3. (sl.) a trece pe numele său, a pune mâna pe, a şterpeli, a lua; a apuca.

4. (sport sl.) a placa; a ţine, a apuca de picioare (la rugbi etc.).

5. a face ruladă, a rula (omletă, carne, prăjitură etc.).

Exemple de propoziții și/sau fraze:

Mr. Micawber slightly bowed to me, and pulled up his shirt-collar.

(David Copperfield, de Charles Dickens)

But without his collar or tie.

(The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, de Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

The huge steel hook had been passed through the collar of his leather jerkin, and there he hung like a fish on a line, writhing, twisting, and screaming, but utterly unable to free himself from his extraordinary position.

(The White Company, de Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

He flushed warmly as he took her hand and looked into her blue eyes, but the fresh bronze of eight months of sun hid the flush, though it did not protect the neck from the gnawing chafe of the stiff collar.

(Martin Eden, de Jack London)

The bird came down, and all the twenty millers set to and lifted up the stone with a beam; then the bird put his head through the hole and took the stone round his neck like a collar, and flew back with it to the tree.

(Fairy Tales, de The Brothers Grimm)

My aunt, with every sort of expression but wonder discharged from her countenance, sat on the gravel, staring at me, until I began to cry; when she got up in a great hurry, collared me, and took me into the parlour.

(David Copperfield, de Charles Dickens)

Collar him!

(David Copperfield, de Charles Dickens)

Mr. Micawber with more shirt-collar than usual, and a new ribbon to his eye-glass; Mrs. Micawber with her cap in a whitey-brown paper parcel; Traddles carrying the parcel, and supporting Mrs. Micawber on his arm.

(David Copperfield, de Charles Dickens)

Then I would commence a practical demonstration, to which Dora would pay profound attention, perhaps for five minutes; when she would begin to be dreadfully tired, and would lighten the subject by curling my hair, or trying the effect of my face with my shirt-collar turned down.

(David Copperfield, de Charles Dickens)

He gradually picked up more and more of it as we conversed with him; but, his very eye-glass seemed to hang less easily, and his shirt-collar, though still of the old formidable dimensions, rather drooped.

(David Copperfield, de Charles Dickens)

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