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Collar can be a noun or a verb.
collar used as a noun:
- The part of an upper garment (shirt, jacket...) that fits around the neck and throat.
- A decorative band or other fabric around the neckline
- A chain worn around the neck
- A similar detachable item
- Anything that encircles the neck.
- A band or chain around an animal's neck, used to restrain and/or identifie it.
"Make sure your dog has a collar holding an identification tag." - A part of harness designed to distribute the load around the shoulders of a draft animal.
- Any encircling device or structure.
"A nylon collar kept the bolt from damaging the surface underneath." - Of or pertaining to a certain category of professions as symbolized by typical clothing; see -collar.
Nouns are naming words. They are used to represent a person (soldier, Jamie), place (Germany, beach), thing (telephone, mirror), quality (hardness, courage), or an action (a run, a punch). Learn more →
collar used as a verb:
- To grab or seize by the collar or neck.
- To place a collar on, to fit with one.
"Collar and leash agressive dogs." - To seize, capture or detain.
- To preempt, control stringently and exclusively.
- To arrest.
- To bind in conversation.
"I managed to collar Fred in the office for an hour."
Verbs are action words and state of being words. Examples of action words are: ran, attacking, dreamed. Examples of "state of being" words are: is, was, be. Learn more →
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What type of word is collar?
- Noun usage: Make sure your dog has a collar holding an identification tag.
- Noun usage: A nylon collar kept the bolt from damaging the surface underneath.
- Verb usage: Collar and leash agressive dogs.
- Verb usage: I managed to collar Fred in the office for an hour.
Unfortunately, with the current database that runs this site, I don't have data about which senses of collar are used most commonly. I've got ideas about how to fix this but will need to find a source of "sense" frequencies. Hopefully there's enough info above to help you understand the part of speech of collar, and guess at its most common usage.
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For those interested in a little info about this site: it's a side project that I developed while working on Describing Words and Related Words. Both of those projects are based around words, but have much grander goals. I had an idea for a website that simply explains the word types of the words that you search for - just like a dictionary, but focussed on the part of speech of the words. And since I already had a lot of the infrastructure in place from the other two sites, I figured it wouldn't be too much more work to get this up and running.
The dictionary is based on the amazing Wiktionary project by wikimedia. I initially started with WordNet, but then realised that it was missing many types of words/lemma (determiners, pronouns, abbreviations, and many more). This caused me to investigate the 1913 edition of Websters Dictionary - which is now in the public domain. However, after a day's work wrangling it into a database I realised that there were far too many errors (especially with the part-of-speech tagging) for it to be viable for Word Type.
Finally, I went back to Wiktionary - which I already knew about, but had been avoiding because it's not properly structured for parsing. That's when I stumbled across the UBY project - an amazing project which needs more recognition. The researchers have parsed the whole of Wiktionary and other sources, and compiled everything into a single unified resource. I simply extracted the Wiktionary entries and threw them into this interface! So it took a little more work than expected, but I'm happy I kept at it after the first couple of blunders.
Special thanks to the contributors of the open-source code that was used in this project: the UBY project (mentioned above), @mongodb and express.js.
Currently, this is based on a version of wiktionary which is a few years old. I plan to update it to a newer version soon and that update should bring in a bunch of new word senses for many words (or more accurately, lemma).