(n.) Something worn round the neck, whether for use, ornament, restraint, or identification; as, the collar of a coat; a lady's collar; the collar of a dog.
(n.) A ring or cincture.
(n.) A collar beam.
(n.) The neck or line of junction between the root of a plant and its stem.
(n.) An ornament worn round the neck by knights, having on it devices to designate their rank or order.
(n.) A ringlike part of a mollusk in connection with esophagus.
(n.) A colored ring round the neck of a bird or mammal.
(n.) A ring or round flange upon, surrounding, or against an object, and used for restraining motion within given limits, or for holding something to its place, or for hiding an opening around an object; as, a collar on a shaft, used to prevent endwise motion of the shaft; a collar surrounding a stovepipe at the place where it enters a wall. The flanges of a piston and the gland of a stuffing box are sometimes called collars.
(n.) 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.
(n.) A curb, or a horizontal timbering, around the mouth of a shaft.
(v. t.) To seize by the collar.
(v. t.) To put a collar on.
Example Sentences:
(1) On day 7, washes were collected as on day 0, and a collar was attached to the neck to prevent contamination from saliva.
(2) Numerous slender sarcotubules, originating from the A-band side terminal cisternae, extend obliquely or longitudinally and form oval or irregular shaped networks of various sizes in front of the A-band, then become continuous with the tiny mesh (fenestrated collar) in front of the H-band.
(3) The working women lost their elasticity more rapidly than the nuns, and the male blue collar workers lost their elasticity more rapidly than the male white collar workers.
(4) Participants were younger, more likely to be male, less likely to be currently married, and more likely to have had a white-collar job and some postsecondary education than were nonparticipants.
(5) For conservative treatment of injuries of the cervical spine, two different methods are available: The HALO fixator and the collar.
(6) These were compared against previously published National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health studies of nonexposed blue-collar workers to determine if these predictions fit our population.
(7) It is concluded that the femoral stem should be as thick as possible and that the collar of the prosthesis is useless.
(8) Radioimmunoassays carried out on acidic extracts of the same organs confirm the molecular results and lead us to conclude to the presence of substances strongly related to MK in the ovotestis as well as in the circumoesophageal ganglia (COG), and to ascertain that the MK-positive tentacular collar cells do not contain authentic MK.
(9) Efficacy of polyvinyl chloride collars containing temephos [0,0'-(thiodi-4,1-phenylene) 0,0,0',0'-tetramethyl bis-(phosphorothioate)] was elevaluated in dogs and cats against the cat flea (Ctenocephalides felis).
(10) The magnitude of the age-adjusted PRs was greatest for blue collar males.
(11) Another officer grabbing Mann by the collar and threatening his family – to arrest his wife’s “black ass” and ensure he would not see his young son grow up, Mann recalled in an interview – if he did not snitch on a heroin dealer.
(12) Based on the results of a large Australian study of a workplace smoking ban, an estimated 654.88 million cigarettes with a retail value of $A6,549 thousand would be forgone annually in Australia alone if 50 percent of white-collar worksites were to ban smoking.
(13) Tooth germs are formed partly by cells of the stomodeal collar and partly by mesenchymal cells and calcification takes place before hatching.
(14) These problems are explored using data from three recent studies on workplace experiences of white collar and blue collar workers who had recovered from cancer, and of former pediatric cancer patients.
(15) Four cases of non-surgical extraction of iatrogenic vascular foreign bodies are reported, in two of which a basket sound was used, and two others a metallic collar.
(16) What’s left for such workers is the same as their blue-collar counterparts: lower wages, precarious work and a lot of borrowing.
(17) For instance, there are elevated rates of lung cancer and stomach cancer among blue collar workers; colon cancer and breast cancer among white collar workers and lip and stomach cancer among self-employed farmers.
(18) (See: The Royal Tenenbaums) Just as we started to feel hot under the collar about it, this little beauty appeared on screen.
(19) The egg burdens in these collars were, on the average, twice the average egg burden in the remainder of the urinary bladder.
(20) By contrast, the risks for renal pelvis cancer tended to be higher among blue collar workers, especially in the machine industry.
Dickey
Definition:
(n.) Alt. of Dicky
Example Sentences:
(1) Jay Dickey, a former US House representative from Arkansas, called for the scrapping of his 1996 amendment that banned the federal agency the Centers for Disease Control from engaging in research aimed at reducing gun deaths.
(2) Should Jose Reyes and the rest of the lineup stay intact, and the starters, including the disappointing former Cy Young Award winner R.A. Dickey , bounce back, there’s a chance the Jays will too - but unfortunately for them, they’re in the wrong division.
(3) 14, 721-735) genes and of a bullfrog cDNA (Didsbury, J. R., Theil, E. C., Kaufman, R. E., and Dickey, L. F. (1986) J. Biol.
(4) Dickey and S.C. Stone attempted an evaluation of progestational potencies of OCs based upon such criteria as subnuclear vacuolization and delay of menses.
(5) The problem right now is they’re hamstrung.” Thompson also released a letter in which the original sponsor of the amendment – Republican Jay Dickey, a former House member – said it was time to reinstate funding for gun violence research.
(6) Therefore, Enterobacter cancerogenus (Urosević, 1966) Dickey and Zumoff, 1968, is a senior subjective synonym for Enterobacter taylorae Farmer et al., 1985.
(7) In 2012, the Republican who wrote the provision, Jay Dickey, urged its removal, writing in an op-ed that, unlike health researchers studying car accidents or infectious disease, “US scientists cannot answer the most basic question: what works to prevent firearm injuries?” Obama made a similar plea on Thursday, saying: “We spend over a trillion dollars and devote entire agencies to preventing terrorist attacks on our soil, and rightfully so.
(8) Dickey and Stone have attempted an evaluation of progestational potencies of oral contraceptives based upon such uterine criteria as subnuclear vacuolization and delay of menses.
(9) Hours after the San Bernardino rampage Dickey wrote in a public letter: “Doing nothing is no longer an acceptable solution.” Having recently expressed his regrets about the legislation he championed, Dickey went further and argued that from now on the CDC should be allowed to conduct research designed to reduce gun violence.
(10) Dickey cited its other important work in investigating how to cut fatalities from car crashes.
(11) Research could have been continued on gun violence without infringing on the rights of gun owners, in the same fashion that the highway industry continued its research without eliminating the automobile,” Dickey said.
(12) Dickey, citing the current opinions of the AMA's Council on Ethical and Judicial Affairs, views the physician's behavior as unacceptable by legal, social, and ethical standards.
(13) Dickey and Berger discussed the incidence of post-pill amenorrhea over various time periods and reported an estimated 2-2.6% at 6 months after cessation of OCs.
(14) It's been a struggle from the start, from losing Jose Reyes for most of the season to watching RA Dickey get lit up over and over, recover, and then get lit up again (repeat) – his inconsistency fits in perfectly with the Jays, who showed what was possible in June, only to slide in July.
(15) In two days we were able to watch RA Dickey , David Price , Clayton Kershaw , Matt Cain , Justin Verlander , CC Sabathia , Stephen Strasburg , Félix Hernández , Cole Hamels , Jered Weaver , Johnny Cueto , Adam Wainwright and Chris Sale ( Yu Darvish didn't open up for Texas but he did pretty well , more on that below).
(16) I have recently expressed my regrets that we didn’t continue that research with the provision that nothing shall be done in this project to infringe the rights of gun ownership as guaranteed by the US Constitution in the second amendment,” Dickey wrote.