colon
7 definitions found
colon - Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 :
Condor \Con"dor\ (k[o^]n"d[o^]r; in defs. 2 & 3, k[-o]n"d[-o]r),
n. [Sp. condor, fr. Peruvian cuntur.]
1. (Zool.) A very large bird of the Vulture family
(Sarcorhamphus gryphus), found in the most elevated
parts of the Andes.
[1913 Webster]
2. (Zool.) The California vulture (Gymnogyps californianus
), also called California condor. [Local,
U. S.]
Note: In the late 20th century it is classed as an endangered
species. The California condor used to number in the
thousands and ranged along the entire west coast of the
United States. By 1982 only 21 to 24 individuals could
be identified in the wild. A breeding program was
instituted, and by 1996 over 50 birds were alive in
captivity. As of 1997, fewer than ten of the bred birds
had been reintroduced into the wild.
[Webster 1913 Suppl. +PJC]
3. A gold coin of Chile, bearing the figure of a condor, and
equal to twenty pesos. It contains 10.98356 grams of gold,
and is equivalent to about $7.29. Called also colon.
[Webster 1913 Suppl.]
4. A gold coin of Colombia equivalent to about $9.65. It is
no longer coined.
[Webster 1913 Suppl.]
Colon \Co"lon\ (k[=o]"l[o^]n), n. [L. colon, colum, limb,
member, the largest of the intestines, fr. Gr. kw^lon, and in
sense of the intestine, ko`lon: cf. F. colon. Cf. Colic.]
1. (Anat.) That part of the large intestines which extends
from the c[ae]cum to the rectum.
Note: [See Illust. of Digestion.]
[1913 Webster]
2. (Gram.) A point or character, formed thus [:], used to
separate parts of a sentence that are complete in
themselves and nearly independent, often taking the place
of a conjunction.
[1913 Webster]
colon - WordNet (r) 2.1 (2005) :
colon
n 1: the part of the large intestine between the cecum and the
rectum; it extracts moisture from food residues before they
are excreted
2: the basic unit of money in El Salvador; equal to 100 centavos
[syn: colon, El Salvadoran colon]
3: the basic unit of money in Costa Rica; equal to 100 centimos
[syn: colon, Costa Rican colon]
4: a port city at the Caribbean entrance to the Panama Canal
[syn: Colon, Aspinwall]
5: a punctuation mark (:) used after a word introducing a series
or an example or an explanation (or after the salutation of a
business letter)
colon - Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (26 May 2007) :
colon
<character> ":" ASCII character 58. Common names: ITU-T:
colon. Rare: dots; INTERCAL: two-spot.
(1995-09-25)
colon - U.S. Gazetteer (1990) :
Colon, MI (village, FIPS 17360)
Location: 41.95902 N, 85.32347 W
Population (1990): 1224 (588 housing units)
Area: 3.6 sq km (land), 0.8 sq km (water)
Zip code(s): 49040
Colon, NC
Zip code(s): 27330
Colon, NE (village, FIPS 10005)
Location: 41.29776 N, 96.60645 W
Population (1990): 128 (54 housing units)
Area: 0.3 sq km (land), 0.0 sq km (water)
Zip code(s): 68018
colon - Bouvier's Law Dictionary, Revised 6th Ed (1856) :
COLONY. A union of citizens or subjects who have left their country to
people another, and remain subject to the mother country. 3 W. C. C. R. 287.
The country occupied by the colonists is also called a colony. A colony
differs from a possession, or a dependency. (q.v.) For a history of the
American colonies, the reader is referred to Story on the Constitution, book
I.; 1 Kent, Com. 77 to 80; 1 Dane's Ab. Index, b. t.
colon - Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 :
165 Moby Thesaurus words for "colon":
Alexandrine, Deutschmark, Mark, Reichsmark, abdomen, accent,
accentuation, afghani, amphibrach, amphimacer, anacrusis, anapest,
anna, antispast, anus, appendix, arsis, bacchius, baht, beat,
blind gut, boundary, bowels, brain, cadence, caesura, catalexis,
cecum, cent, centavo, centime, chloriamb, chloriambus, comma,
conto, counterpoint, cretic, dactyl, dactylic hexameter, diaeresis,
dimeter, dipody, dochmiac, dollar, dong, duodenum, elegiac,
elegiac couplet, elegiac pentameter, emphasis, endocardium,
entrails, epitrite, feminine caesura, florin, foot, foregut, franc,
giblets, gizzard, guilder, gulden, guts, heart, heptameter,
heptapody, heroic couplet, hexameter, hexapody, hindgut, iamb,
iambic, iambic pentameter, ictus, innards, inner mechanism,
insides, internals, intestine, inwards, ionic, jejunum, jingle,
juncture, kidney, kip, kishkes, kopeck, krona, krone,
large intestine, lilt, lira, liver, liver and lights, lung,
masculine caesura, measure, meter, metrical accent, metrical foot,
metrical group, metrical unit, metron, midgut, milreis, molossus,
mora, movement, numbers, paeon, pause, pentameter, pentapody,
perineum, period, peseta, pie, piece of eight, pistareen, point,
pound, proceleusmatic, pump, pylorus, pyrrhic, quantity, rand,
rectum, rhythm, rial, ruble, rupee, semicolon, shekel, shilling,
small intestine, sol, sou, spleen, spondee, sprung rhythm, stiver,
stomach, stop, stress, swing, syzygy, tetrameter, tetrapody,
tetraseme, thesis, ticker, tribrach, trimeter, tripes, tripody,
triseme, trochee, vermiform appendix, viscera, vitals, won, works,
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