What's the difference between collar and leash?

Collar


Definition:

  • (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.

Leash


Definition:

  • (n.) A thong of leather, or a long cord, by which a falconer holds his hawk, or a courser his dog.
  • (n.) A brace and a half; a tierce; three; three creatures of any kind, especially greyhounds, foxes, bucks, and hares; hence, the number three in general.
  • (n.) A string with a loop at the end for lifting warp threads, in a loom.
  • (v. t.) To tie together, or hold, with a leash.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) The activated matrix (an imidazolyl carbamate) is relatively stable to hydrolysis but smoothly reacts with N-nucleophiles such as those present in either affinity chromatography ligands or leashes, e.g.
  • (2) Two cases are presented in which radial forearm flaps with a proximal vascular leash are used to cover such defects without the need for microsurgical expertise.
  • (3) In February, President Barack Obama said drone strikes are "kept on a very tight leash" and "have not caused a huge number of civilian casualties".
  • (4) ethynyl estradiol), we investigated a series of 17 alpha-substituted estradiol compounds to determine the optimal properties of a leash at this position.
  • (5) He described them as five bundles of aberrant pyramidal fibres which separate out as leashes from the corticospinal fibres at different levels and each had its territory of bulbar nuclei (like the Reich which is the territory of the German empire of which there were only three).
  • (6) These findings suggest that the long 'leash' provided by PEO hydrogels may give the heparin more access to the thrombin-antithrombin pair than the tight bond to PVA, and that crowding of heparin units on a surface limits access of the thrombin-antithrombin pair.
  • (7) The walkers may be the ones with the pockets full of Pedigree Schmackos, barks the subtext, but ultimately it's the walkees who hold the leash.
  • (8) Thus Singapore’s indigenous capitalists were kept on a short leash.
  • (9) Two pole-leashes attached to 2 points on the harness gave the handler considerable control over the posture of the monkey, making it easier to teach the monkey to walk with a leash and to climb into its restraint chair or test apparatus.
  • (10) "And whenever he came out the dressing room he'd be pulling on the leash, tail wagging – let's go, let's get it done."
  • (11) The sketch show Rubbernecker featured four little-known talents: Robin Ince, Stephen Merchant, Jimmy Carr and Ricky Gervais – familiar, if at all, from Channel 4's 11 O'Clock Show, which also let Sacha Baron Cohen off his leash.
  • (12) The stationary phase consisted of iminodiacetic acid (IDA) chelate groups, bonded to small particle, wide pore silica gel by means of a polyether hydrophilic leash.
  • (13) Parliament needs to change the watchdog before it lets the rottweiler off the leash.
  • (14) Energy efficiency is a no-brainer, as is letting the GIB off the Treasury leash.
  • (15) A chest harness and pole-leash method to transfer rhesus monkeys (Macaca mulatta) weighing up to 16 kg from home cage to primate restraint chair was designed.
  • (16) The hope, it seems, is that the outsourcing show will continue, but with better-managed firms on a tighter leash and smaller operators encouraged to enter the market.
  • (17) "It felt like it was on a leash for years and … we've come off the leash and just responded in that way basically," says one interviewee.
  • (18) Conditions for the coupling of a range of ligands and leashes have been evaluated.
  • (19) I think the difficult thing is just having to juggle your career and your spare time with a dog,” she tells me when we meet for our cutesily termed “welcome woof”, a brief rendezvous to check all three of us are happy at the prospect of handing over the leash.
  • (20) Mundine said the move would “let bigots off the leash”.