collar vs pick up

collar

verb
  • To arrest. 

  • To bind in conversation. 

  • To place a collar on, to fit with one. 

  • To preempt, control stringently and exclusively. 

  • To seize, capture or detain. 

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

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

  • To grab or seize by the collar or neck. 

noun
  • A piece of meat from the neck of an animal. 

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

  • A collar beam. 

  • An arrest. 

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

  • A similar detachable item. 

  • 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. 

  • A decorative band or other fabric around the neckline. 

  • Of or pertaining to a certain category of professions as symbolized by typical clothing. 

  • A physical lockout device to prevent operation of a mechanical signal lever. 

  • 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. 

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

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

  • 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. 

  • Any encircling device or structure. 

  • 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. 

  • A ring or cincture. 

  • A chain worn around the neck. 

pick up

verb
  • To collect and detain (a suspect). 

  • To acquire (something) accidentally; to catch (a disease). 

  • To lift; to grasp and raise. 

  • To clean up; to return to an organized state. 

  • To point out the behaviour, habits, or actions of (a person) in a critical manner; used with on. 

  • To meet and seduce somebody for romantic purposes, especially in a social situation. 

  • To receive calls; to function correctly. 

  • To record; to notch up. 

  • To learn, to grasp; to begin to understand; to realize. 

  • To promote somebody who was previously passed over. 

  • To collect an object, especially in passing. 

  • To answer a telephone. 

  • To take control (physically) of something. 

  • To mark, to defend against an opposition player by following them closely. 

  • To behave in a manner that results in a foul. 

  • To restart or resume. 

  • To receive (a radio signal or the like). 

  • To notice, detect or discern; to pick up on 

  • To improve, increase, or speed up. 

  • To reduce the despondency of. 

  • To pay for. 

  • To obtain and publish a story, news item, etc. 

  • To collect a passenger. 

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