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COLLARED

Definition: COLLARED

COLLARED

Adjective

1. Rolled up and bound close with a string; as, collared beef. See To collar beef, under Collar, v. t.

2. Wearing a collar; -- said of a man or beast used as a bearing when a collar is represented as worn around the neck or loins.

3. Wearing a collar.

Imperative & past participle

1. Of Collar

Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
 

Date "COLLARED" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1550. (references)


Specialty Definition: COLLARED

DomainDefinition

Mining

A started hole drilled sufficiently deep to confine the drill bit andprevent slippage of the bit from normal position. (references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Crosswords: COLLARED

English words defined with "COLLARED": MacavahuSnowy lemming, sparrow hawkTajassu, Tayassu pecari, Teetee, Torquatewhite-lipped peccary. (references)
Specialty definitions using "COLLARED": horn socketseismograph rod, starting barrel, surface drillingtrue depthup hole. (references)

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Modern Usage: COLLARED

DomainUsage

Movie/TV Titles

Dog Collared (1951)

How Troy Was Collared (1923)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Commercial Usage: COLLARED

DomainTitle

Books

  • Collared Peccary-The Javelina. (reference)

  • Collared Urns Bronze Age (reference)

  • Javelina Place: The Controversial Face of the Collared Peccary (reference)

  • Perception of coo variation by the collared dove : a parameter analysis using playbacks in the field (reference)

    (more book examples)

  

Music

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Image Slideshow: COLLARED

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Use in Literature: COLLARED

TitleAuthorQuote

Les Miserables

Hugo, Victor

In a twinkling, before Javert had had time to turn around, he was collared, thrown down, bound, searched.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

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Usage Frequency: COLLARED

"COLLARED" is generally used as a lexical verb (past tense) -- approximately 44.74% of the time. "COLLARED" is used about 38 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted)
Parts of SpeechPercentUsage per
100 Million Words
Rank in English
Lexical Verb (past tense)44.74%1785,106
Lexical Verb (past participle)28.95%11106,044
Adjective (general or positive)21.05%8124,375
Noun (proper)5.26%2245,945
                    Total100.00%38N/A

Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.

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Expressions: COLLARED

Expressions using "COLLARED": collared brawn collared lizard collared peccary collared pika collared pin collared teetee Hudson bay collared lemming. Additional references.

Hypenated Usage

Ending with "COLLARED": fur-collared, high-collared, radio-collared, shawl-collared.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Frequency of Internet Keywords: COLLARED

The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com.
 
ExpressionFrequency
per Day
ExpressionFrequency
per Day

breeding collared yellow

136

collared girl

4

collared lizard

49

collared lizard texas

3

yellow collared macaw

15

aracari collared

3

eastern collared lizard

9

collared lizard madagascar

3

collared dove eurasian

9

care collared lizard

3

collared peccary

8

collared slave

3

collared dove

6

collared illustrat near photo pic picture slave sub submi

3

collared shirt

6

collared green

3

black collared lizard

4

collared woman

3

collared shirt t

4

collared plover

2

collared submissive woman

2
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Modern Translation: COLLARED

Language Translations for "COLLARED"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.

Danish

  

tyrkerdue (collared dove), hvidhalset fluesnapper (collared flycatcher), flange styr (collared pin), braksvale (collared pratincola, pratincole). (various references)

   

Dutch

  

withalsvliegenvanger (collared flycatcher), vorkstaartplevier (collared pratincola, pratincole), turkse tortel (collared dove), mofkoppeling (collared rod joint), kraagpen (collared pin). (various references)

   

Finnish

  

kaulustappi (collared pin), kauluspekari (Collared peccary, peccary). (various references)

   

French

  

tourterelle turque (collared dove), suimanga collier (anthreptes collaris, collared sunbird), sanglier d'Amérique (Collared peccary), raccord a manchon (collared rod joint), perdrix de mer (collared pratincola), goujon embase (collared pin), gobemouche collier (collared flycatcher), glaréole collier (collared pratincola, collared pratincole), anthreptes collaris (anthreptes collaris, collared sunbird). (various references)

   

German

  

fasste (grabbed, subsumed). (various references)

   

Greek 

  

κρικομυγοχάφτης (collared flycatcher), νεροχελίδονο (pratincole), μούφα (collared rod joint), περισύνδεσμος (collared rod joint), πείρος με κολλάρο (collared pin), αγριόχοιρος Αμερικής (Collared peccary, peccary), δεκοχτούρα (collared dove), anthreptes collaris (anthreptes collaris, collared sunbird). (various references)

   

Hungarian

  

csípte a betörőt (the night watchman collared the burglar), az éjjeliőr nyakon (the night watchman collared the burglar), az éjjeliőr lefülelte a betörőt (the night watchman collared the burglar). (various references)

   

Italian

  

tortora dal collare orientale (collared dove), tortora dal collare orien (collared dove), spina flangiata (collared pin), pernio flangiato (collared pin), pernice di mare (collared pratincola, collared pratincole, pratincole), nettarinia dal collare (anthreptes collaris, collared sunbird), balie dal collare (collared flycatcher), balia dal collare (collared flycatcher), anthreptes collaris (anthreptes collaris, collared sunbird). (various references)

   

Japanese Kanji 

  

白子鳩 (collared dove). (various references)

   

Japanese Katakana 

  

しら"ばと (collared dove). (various references)

   

Manx

  

coillaragh. (various references)

   

Pig Latin

  

ollaredcay

   

Portuguese

  

cavilha com base alargada (collared pin), rola-turca (collared dove), perdiz do mar (collared pratincola, pratincole), papa-moscas-de-colar (collared flycatcher). (various references)

   

Romanian

  

gulerat (neck-spotted). (various references)

   

Spanish

  

clavija reforzada (collared pin), canastera (collared pratincola, pratincole), tórtola turca (collared dove), papamoscas collarino (collared flycatcher). (various references)

   

Swedish

  

rullsylta (collared brawn), kragdubb (collared pin). (various references)

   

Thai

  

ถูกจับ (bagged, busted, copped, dropped, flagged, gaffled, glued, guzzled, nabbed, nailed, nicked). (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Ancestral Language Translations: COLLARED

LanguagePeriodTranslations
Latin500 BCE-Modern

Coliuspasser ardens, Euplectes ardens, Ficedula albicollis, Glareola pratincola, Muscicapa albicollis, RM:columba tirca, RM:glaréole à collier, RM:sgnappamustgas dal culari, Streptopelia decaocto, Tayassu tajacu. (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

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Misspellings: COLLARED

Misspellings

"COLLARED" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Colarres, Collaer, collare, collares, collaris, collased, Shoolbred, solared. (additional references)

Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

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Rhyming with "COLLARED"

# of Phoneme MatchesPronunciationWord(s) rhyming with "COLLARED" (pronounced kÄ"lerd)
5k Ä" l er dCollard.
4-Ä" l er dbollard, hollered, Pollard.
3-l er dantlered, colored, coloured, discolored, mallard, multicolored, pillared, steamrollered, tailored.

Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits.

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Anagrams: COLLARED

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Direct Anagrams: carolled.

Words within the letters "a-c-d-e-l-l-o-r"

-1 letter: caroled, collard, ocellar.

-2 letters: called, caller, cellar, coaled, coaler, colder, colead, collar, cradle, credal, dollar, ladler, loader, locale, loreal, oracle, ordeal, recall, reclad, recoal, reload, rolled.

-3 letters: acold, acred, adore, alder, aldol, allod, arced, cadre, cared, carle, carol, cedar, cella, cello, ceorl, clade, claro, clear, coder, coled, coral, cored, credo, decal, decor, dolce.

 Words containing the letters "a-c-d-e-l-l-o-r"
 

+1 letter: corralled.

 

+2 letters: caracolled, cordillera, coveralled, jackrolled, overcalled.

 

+3 letters: carillonned, chloralosed, cordilleran, cordilleras, placeholder, reallocated.

 

+4 letters: candleholder, collaborated, octahedrally, periodically, placeholders, procedurally, sacerdotally.

 

+5 letters: aperiodically, candleholders, coldheartedly, dendrological, electrodermal, electroplated.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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INDEX

1. Definition
2. Crosswords
3. Usage: Modern
4. Usage: Commercial
5. Images: Slideshow
6. Quotations: Fiction
7. Usage Frequency
8. Expressions
9. Expressions: Internet
10. Translations: Modern
11. Translations: Ancient
12. Derivations
13. Rhymes
14. Anagrams
15. Bibliography


  

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