About The Word Colon
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Colon
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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.
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