collarable

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adjective

For which it is appropriate to put a collar on.

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Meanings

adjective
  1. For which it is appropriate to put a collar on.

    Johnny's behind with the laundry and I haven't a collarable shirt.

    2014, Leona Dalrymple, Diane of the Green Van
    3 more examples

    […] it would have been undesirable for the cubs to wear a single collar for longer periods, as they could undergo a four-fold increase in weight between the minimum collarable […]

    1996, CPJ Robertson, S Harris, “An expandable, detachable radio‐collar for juvenile red foxes (Vulpes vvulpes)”, in Journal of Zoology

    […] it took 33 trap days to capture 30 collarable rabbits despite our efforts to vary trapping activities.

    2008, Justin A Crawford, Survival, movements and habitat selection of pygmy rabbits (Brachylagus idahoensis) on the Great Basin of southeastern Oregon and northwestern Nevada

    There is currently a paucity of publications reporting different ways of minimising stress in collared mammals, though recent efforts have been made to examine ethical radio-tracking alternatives in non-collarable species (Cornelsen et al., 2021), and weak-link additions for long-term collars (Rayner et al., 2021).

    2021, Alexandra Ross, How does naiveté affect co-existence between native and alien species?
  2. mathematicsSuch that there exists a collar neighborhood in a larger manifold.

    Other examples of non-collarable slices appear in [18] and [13] as a slice of a Lagrangian cap cannot be collarable near its maxima.

    2022, Helmut Hofer, Alberto Abbondandolo, Urs Frauenfelder, Symplectic Geometry, page 226
  3. That can be seized and dragged off.

    Each part of me that's holdable or touchable or collarable Has made me often feel no happy life a Rugby Blue's is.

    1897, Ernest Edward Kellett, Jetsam: Occasional Verses, page 32
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    After requitsite Sunday lunches, I would do my utmost to drag anyone collarable to the Egyptian wing of the museum.

    2007, Thomas G. B. Wheelock, Christopher D. Roy, Land of the Flying Masks, page 16
  4. lawAble to be rectified or brought into compliance with existing law.

    The Ninth Circuit discussed the ramifications of the IFP statute, 28 U.S.C. section 1915(e)(2), and held that the district court abused its discretion by dismissing without leave to amend the complaint, in which collarable claims were made but the wrong defendants were named.

    2000, American Federal Tax Reports, pages 2000-1755
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APA

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MLA

“collarable.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/collarable. Accessed November 3, 2026.

Chicago

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