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Colon

Colon Definition And Meaning
What's The Definition Of Colon? [n] the part of the large intestine between the cecum and the rectum; it extracts moisture from food residues before they are excreted [n] a punctuation mark (:) used after a word introducing a series or an example or an explanation (or after the salutation of a business letter) [n] a port city at the Caribbean entrance to the Panama Canal [n] the basic unit of money in Costa Rica; equal to 100 centimos [n] the basic unit of money in El Salvador; equal to 100 centavos Synonyms \| Synonyms for Colon: Aspinwall \| Costa Rican colon \| El Salvadoran colon Related Terms \| Find terms related to Colon: abdomen \| accent \| accentuation \| afghani \| Alexandrine \| 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 \| Deutschmark \| 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 \| Mark \| 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 \| Reichsmark \| 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 \| yen See Also \| ascending colon \| centavo \| centimo \| city \| Costa Rican monetary unit \| descending colon \| El Salvadoran monetary unit \| large intestine \| megacolon \| metropolis \| Panama \| port \| punctuation \| punctuation mark \| Republic of Panama \| sigmoid colon \| sigmoid flexure \| sigmoid vein \| transverse colon \| urban center \| vena sigmoideus Colon In Webster's Dictionary \Co"lon\, n. [L. colon, colum, limb, member, the largest of the intestines, fr. Gr. ?, and in sense of the intestine, ?: 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}.] 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.

Colon Definition And Meaning

What's The Definition Of Colon?

[n] the part of the large intestine between the cecum and the rectum; it extracts moisture from food residues before they are excreted
[n] a punctuation mark (:) used after a word introducing a series or an example or an explanation (or after the salutation of a business letter)
[n] a port city at the Caribbean entrance to the Panama Canal
[n] the basic unit of money in Costa Rica; equal to 100 centimos
[n] the basic unit of money in El Salvador; equal to 100 centavos

Synonyms | Synonyms for Colon: Aspinwall | Costa Rican colon | El Salvadoran colon

Colon In Webster's Dictionary

\Co"lon\, n. [L. colon, colum, limb, member, the largest
of the intestines, fr. Gr. ?, and in sense of the intestine,
?: 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}.]

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.

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