(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.
Preempt
Definition:
(v. t. & i.) To settle upon (public land) with a right of preemption, as under the laws of the United States; to take by preemption.
Example Sentences:
(1) In one patient the information obtained by two-dimensional echocardiographic studies was believed to be sufficient to preempt the need for cardiac catheterization.
(2) It is concluded that cytologic examination of colonic brushings is a highly accurate and reliable technique for the detection of malignant neoplasms of the colon and can preempt the use of biopsy forceps.
(3) The influences of Li or protons, however, are so strong as to preempt the volume effects, so that the pathway can be activated even in swollen cells and deactivated in shrunken ones.
(4) A proactive style of preempting opportunities for misbehavior, in contrast to a reactive style of responding only after misbehavior occurred, was correlated with a lower incidence of undesirable child acts.
(5) As transcription proceeds, it is preempted by formation of an alternative domain designated stem-loop IV.
(6) In a written statement earlier this week , the foreign secretary, Boris Johnson, sought to preempt the committee by asserting the UK would continue to export weapons to Saudi Arabia, claiming the “key test” of a serious risk of breach of international humanitarian law had not been met.
(7) Though Washington law does not preempt federal statute, under which marijuana is still illegal, the Justice Department assured Washington governor Jay Inslee that it would not sue to overturn the state’s development of a highly regulated marijuana market.
(8) "In the Senate and in America, the concerns that kept us out of Kyoto back in 1997 are still with us today, and we need to preempt them here in Copenhagen," Kerry warned.
(9) The "security hypothesis" suggests food hoarding by rats serves to preempt attack and therefore might be motivated by "anxiety".
(10) The federal requirements, while not preempting state law damages claims, do provide a mechanism for achieving some protection from liability.
(11) While MRI has clearly preempted many applications, CT is still the examination of choice in several clinical settings.
(12) Furthermore, Congress, through the Cigarette Labeling and Advertising Act and Smokeless Tobacco Education Act, has not preempted or removed the power of states to ban sampling.
(13) Preempting innovations--novel terms identical in form to conventional terms, such as uniforms--provide the means to contrast the models.
(14) We’re working to 2025.” He said he did not believe there was a need to preempt judicial reviews, adding: “The government has been stung by these before so I can understand them wanting to be sure it is robust.” In an unusually strong attack on Gatwick, Holland-Kaye warned that the prime minister had a choice of a third runway at Heathrow or a Gatwick option that “will not get us to emerging markets, which does nothing for the regions of the UK, or for exports, that delivers a fraction of the jobs or the economic benefits, is less financially robust, does not have the support of business or unions, nor the local community, nor the airlines, nor politicians, nor the policy basis of the airports commission.
(15) Without preempting them, I can tell you something about the direction of travel," he told a Voice of the Listener and Viewer conference in central London today.
(16) These unnatural deaths preempted any excess in natural causes before the age of 70 years, such as cardiovascular disease.
(17) The concept of dissociation increasingly preempts repression and other defense mechanisms in current nosological thinking.
(18) The present results indicate that diuretics preempt the appearance of a forthcoming increase in serum glucose and cholesterol, and lessen the clinical relevance of these events.
(19) Joyce had already held a press conference in New England to preempt the announcement.
(20) Thus the ability of the Act to preempt litigation substantially is questionable, the authors state, and they recommend a broader definition.