Mantle vs Collar - What's the difference?
mantle | collar |
A piece of clothing somewhat like an open robe or cloak, especially that worn by Orthodox bishops.
(figuratively) A figurative garment representing authority or status, capable of affording protection.
(figuratively) Anything that covers or conceals something else; a cloak.
* (rfdate) (Shakespeare) (King Lear)
(zoology) The body wall of a mollusc, from which the shell is secreted.
* 1990 , Daniel L. Gilbert, William J. Adelman, John M. Arnold (editors), Squid as Experimental Animals , page 71 (where there is an illustration):
(zoology) The back of a bird together with the folded wings.
The zone of hot gases around a flame; the gauzy incandescent covering of a gas lamp.
The outer wall and casing of a blast furnace, above the hearth.
A penstock for a water wheel.
(anatomy) The cerebral cortex.
(geology) The layer between the Earth's core and crust.
A fireplace shelf;
(heraldry) A mantling.
To cover or conceal (something); to cloak; to disguise.
To become covered or concealed.
(of face, cheeks) To flush.
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Anything that encircles the neck.
#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.
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#*:It was April 22, 1831, and a young man was walking down Whitehall in the direction of Parliament Street. He wore shepherd's plaid trousers and the swallow-tail coat of the day, with a figured muslin cravat wound about his wide-spread collar .
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, title= #A decorative band or other fabric around the neckline.
#A chain worn around the neck.
#A similar detachable item.
#A coloured ring round the neck of a bird or mammal.
#A band or chain around an animal's neck, used to restrain and/or identify it.
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#A part of harness designed to distribute the load around the shoulders of a draft animal.
A piece of meat from the neck of an animal.
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(lb) Any encircling device or structure.
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#(lb) A physical lockout device to prevent operation of a mechanical signal lever.
#(lb) A ring or cincture.
#(lb) A collar beam.
#(lb) A curb, or a horizontal timbering, around the mouth of a shaft.
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(lb) Of or pertaining to a certain category of professions as symbolized by typical clothing.
(lb) The neck or line of junction between the root of a plant and its stem.
:(Gray)
A ringlike part of a mollusk in connection with the esophagus.
(lb) 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.
To grab or seize by the collar or neck.
To place a collar on, to fit with one.
To seize, capture or detain.
To preempt, control stringently and exclusively.
(law enforcement) To arrest.
(figuratively) To bind in conversation.
To roll up (beef or other meat) and bind it with string preparatory to cooking.
(BDSM) To bind a submissive to a dominant under specific conditions or obligations.
As a proper noun mantle
is .As a noun collar is
anything that encircles the neck.As a verb collar is
to grab or seize by the collar or neck.mantle
English
(wikipedia mantle)Noun
(en noun)- At the meeting, she finally assumed the mantle of leadership of the party.
- The movement strove to put women under the protective mantle of civil rights laws.
- the green mantle of the standing pool
- Before copulation in Loligo'', the male swims beside and slightly below about his potential mate and flashes his chromatophores. He grasps the female from slightly below about the mid-mantle region and positions himself so his arms are close to the opening of her mantle'''. He then reaches into his ' mantle with his hectocotylus and picks up several spermatophores from his penis.
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Derived terms
* assume the mantle * gas mantle * mantlepiece * mantle-tree * upper mantleVerb
(mantl)- (Shakespeare)
- The blood still mantled below her ears; she bent her head in shame of her humility.
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English
Noun
(en noun)The Mirror and the Lamp, passage=Here, in the transept and choir, where the service was being held, one was conscious every moment of an increasing brightness; colours glowing vividly beneath the circular chandeliers, and the rows of small lights on the choristers' desks flashed and sparkled in front of the boys' faces, deep linen collars , and red neckbands.}}
Derived terms
* blue-collar * bottle collar * brass-collar * change collars * choke collar * collar stud * collarbone * collared lizard * dog collar * equity collar * Eton collar * feel someone's collar * flea collar * floatation collar * head collar * hot under the collar * interest rate collar * mandarin collar * Peter Pan collar * pink-collar * rain collar * Roman collar * sailor collar * shawl collar * storm collar * Vandyke collar * white-collar * white-collar crime * wing collarVerb
(en verb)- Collar and leash aggressive dogs.
- I managed to collar Fred in the office for an hour.
