Bind vs. Collar — What's the Difference?

To tie or secure, as with a rope or cord.

The part of a garment that encircles the neck, especially when raised or folded.

To hold or restrain by tying with rope or bonds

See clerical collar.

To fasten or wrap by encircling, as with a belt or ribbon

A tight-fitting necklace.

To bandage

A restraining or identifying band of leather, metal, or plastic put around the neck of an animal.

To compel, constrain, or unite

The cushioned part of a harness that presses against the shoulders of a draft animal.

To make certain or irrevocable

(Biology) An encircling structure or bandlike marking, as around the neck of an animal, suggestive of a collar.

(Law) To place under legal obligation.

Any of various ringlike devices used to limit, guide, or secure a machine part.

To apprentice or indenture

(Slang) An arrest, as of a criminal.

(Chemistry) To combine with, form a chemical bond with, or be taken up by, as an enzyme with its substrate.

To furnish with a collar.

To cause to cohere or stick together in a mass

To seize or detain.

To constipate.

To arrest (a criminal, for example).

To enclose and fasten (the pages of a book or other printed material) between covers.

Clothes that encircle the neck.

To furnish with an edge or border for protection, reinforcement, or ornamentation.

The part of an upper garment (shirt, jacket, etc.) that fits around the neck and throat, especially if sewn from a separate piece of fabric.

To tie up or fasten something.

A decorative band or other fabric around the neckline.

To stick or become stuck

A chain worn around the neck.

To be uncomfortably tight or restricting, as clothes.

A similar detachable item.

To become compact or solid; cohere.

A coloured ring round the neck of a bird or mammal.

To be compelling, constraining, or unifying

A band or chain around an animal's neck, used to restrain and/or identify it.

(Chemistry) To combine chemically or form a chemical bond.

A part of harness designed to distribute the load around the shoulders of a draft animal.

The act of binding.

(archaic) A hangman's knot.

The state of being bound.

A piece of meat from the neck of an animal.

Something that binds.

(technology) Any encircling device or structure.

A place where something binds

(rail transport) A physical lockout device to prevent operation of a mechanical signal lever.

(Informal) A difficult, restrictive, or unresolvable situation

(architecture) A ring or cincture.

(Music) A tie, slur, or brace.

(architecture) A collar beam.

(intransitive) To tie; to confine by any ligature.

(mining) A curb, or a horizontal timbering, around the mouth of a shaft.

(intransitive) To cohere or stick together in a mass.

(in compounds) Of or pertaining to a certain category of professions as symbolized by typical clothing.

(intransitive) To be restrained from motion, or from customary or natural action, as by friction.

(botany) The neck or line of junction between the root of a plant and its stem

(intransitive) To exert a binding or restraining influence.

A ringlike part of a mollusk in connection with the esophagus.

(transitive) To tie or fasten tightly together, with a cord, band, ligature, chain, etc.

(nautical) 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.

(transitive) To confine, restrain, or hold by physical force or influence of any kind.

(slang) An arrest.

(transitive) To couple.

(finance) A trading strategy using options such that there is both an upper limit on profit and a lower limit on loss, constructed through taking equal but opposite positions in a put and a call with different strike prices.

(figuratively) To oblige, restrain, or hold, by authority, law, duty, promise, vow, affection, or other social tie.

(transitive) To grab or seize by the collar or neck.

(law) To put (a person) under definite legal obligations, especially, under the obligation of a bond or covenant.

(transitive) To place a collar on, to fit with one.

(law) To place under legal obligation to serve.

(transitive) To seize, capture or detain.

(transitive) To protect or strengthen by applying a band or binding, as the edge of a carpet or garment.

(transitive) To preempt, control stringently and exclusively.

To make fast (a thing) about or upon something, as by tying; to encircle with something.

To arrest.

(transitive) To cover, as with a bandage.

To bind in conversation.

To prevent or restrain from customary or natural action, as by producing constipation.

(transitive) To roll up (beef or other meat) and bind it with string preparatory to cooking.

(transitive) To put together in a cover, as of books.

To bind (a submissive) to a dominant under specific conditions or obligations.

To make two or more elements stick together.

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.

To associate an identifier with a value; to associate a variable name, method name, etc. with the content of a storage location.

A ring or cincture.

To process one or more object modules into an executable program.

The neck or line of junction between the root of a plant and its stem.

To complain; to whine about something.

An ornament worn round the neck by knights, having on it devices to designate their rank or order.

To wear a binder so as to flatten one's chest to give the appearance of a flat chest, usually done by trans men.

A ringlike part of a mollusk in connection with esophagus.

That which binds or ties.

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.

A troublesome situation; a problem; a predicament or quandary.

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.

Any twining or climbing plant or stem, especially a hop vine; a bine.

A curb, or a horizontal timbering, around the mouth of a shaft.

(music) A ligature or tie for grouping notes.

To seize by the collar.

(chess) A strong grip or stranglehold on a position, which is difficult for the opponent to break.

To put a collar on.

The indurated clay of coal mines.

To arrest, as a wanted criminal. Same as put the collar on.

To tie, or confine with a cord, band, ligature, chain, etc.; to fetter; to make fast; as, to bind grain in bundles; to bind a prisoner.

A band that fits around the neck and is usually folded over

To confine, restrain, or hold by physical force or influence of any kind; as, attraction binds the planets to the sun; frost binds the earth, or the streams.

A band of leather or rope that is placed around an animal's neck as a harness or to identify it

To cover, as with a bandage; to bandage or dress; - sometimes with up; as, to bind up a wound.

Necklace that fits tightly around a woman's neck

To make fast ( a thing) about or upon something, as by tying; to encircle with something; as, to bind a belt about one; to bind a compress upon a part.

A figurative restraint;

To prevent or restrain from customary or natural action; as, certain drugs bind the bowels.

The act of apprehending (especially apprehending a criminal);

To protect or strengthen by a band or binding, as the edge of a carpet or garment.

Take into custody;

To sew or fasten together, and inclose in a cover; as, to bind a book.

Seize by the neck or collar

Fig.: To oblige, restrain, or hold, by authority, law, duty, promise, vow, affection, or other moral tie; as, to bind the conscience; to bind by kindness; bound by affection; commerce binds nations to each other.

Furnish with a collar;

To bring (any one) under definite legal obligations; esp. under the obligation of a bond or covenant.

To tie; to confine by any ligature.

To contract; to grow hard or stiff; to cohere or stick together in a mass; as, clay binds by heat.

To be restrained from motion, or from customary or natural action, as by friction.

To exert a binding or restraining influence.

That which binds or ties.

Any twining or climbing plant or stem, esp. a hop vine; a bine.

Indurated clay, when much mixed with the oxide of iron.

A ligature or tie for grouping notes.

Something that hinders as if with bonds

Stick to firmly;

Create social or emotional ties;

Make fast; tie or secure, with or as if with a rope;

Wrap around with something so as to cover or enclose

Secure with or as if with ropes;

Bind by an obligation; cause to be indebted;

Form a chemical bond with;

Provide with a binding;

Fasten or secure with a rope, string, or cord;

Cause to be constipated;