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nounPlural coloneskɒˈlɒnkəˈlōn The basic monetary unit of Costa Rica and El Salvador, equal to 100 centimos in Costa Rica and 100 centavos in El Salvador. Example sentencesExamples - This sounds like pricey poker, but 30,000 colones is only about $9 US, so I wondered, with fields of about 100 players a night, how the casino was guaranteeing a prize pool of at least $10,000 US.
- ‘People are not interested in dollars or colones; they just want money,’ Barraza declared during the February forum.
- The U.S. dollar is strong there, worth about 400 colones, the Costa Rican currency.
Origin From Cristóbal Colón, the Spanish name of Christopher Columbus (see Columbus, Christopher). proper nounkɒˈlɒnkəˈlōn The chief port of Panama, at the Caribbean end of the Panama Canal; population 87,800 (est. 2009). It was founded in 1850 by the American William Aspinwall (1807–55), after whom it was originally named.
Rhymes aide-de-camp, aides-de-camp, anon, Asunción, au courant, begone, Bonn, bon vivant, Caen, Canton, Carcassonne, Ceylon, chaconne, chateaubriand, ci-devant, colon, Concepción, con (US conn), cretonne, don, Duchamp, Evonne, foregone, fromage blanc, Gabon, Garonne, gone, guenon, hereupon, Inchon, Jean, john, Jon, Le Mans, León, Luzon, Mont Blanc, Narbonne, odds-on, on, outgone, outshone, Perón, phon, piñon, Pinot Blanc, plafond, Ramón, Saigon, Saint-Saëns, Sand, Schwann, scone, shone, side-on, sine qua non, Sorbonne, spot-on, swan, thereon, thereupon, ton, Toulon, undergone, upon, Villon, wan, whereon, whereupon, won, wonton, yon, Yvonne noun ˈkəʊlənˈkəʊlɒnˈkoʊlən 1A punctuation mark (:) used to precede a list of items, a quotation, or an expansion or explanation. Example sentencesExamples - In less formal writing, the dash is often a catch-all mark to take the place of both colon and semicolon, obviating the need to distinguish them or think about more subtle kinds of punctuation.
- Add a bracket to a colon and you get the text-message version of a smiley badge.
- I have been finding too many contradictory sources on the use of colons versus semicolons, and now can remember neither quite right.
- But it's hard enough for some people to acquire an instinctive sense of the different uses of commas, let alone the employment of colons and semi-colons.
- Programming languages often consist of a seemingly random usage of parenthesis, brackets, asterisks, slashes, colons and semi-colons.
- 1.1 A colon used in various technical and formulaic contexts, for example a statement of proportion between two numbers, or to separate hours from minutes (and minutes from seconds) in a numerical statement of time.
Example sentencesExamples - Time is in army format without the colon between hours and minutes.
Origin Mid 16th century (as a term in rhetoric denoting a section of a complex sentence, or a pause before it): via Latin from Greek kōlon 'limb, clause'. Rhymes aide-de-camp, aides-de-camp, anon, Asunción, au courant, begone, Bonn, bon vivant, Caen, Canton, Carcassonne, Ceylon, chaconne, chateaubriand, ci-devant, Colón, Concepción, con (US conn), cretonne, don, Duchamp, Evonne, foregone, fromage blanc, Gabon, Garonne, gone, guenon, hereupon, Inchon, Jean, john, Jon, Le Mans, León, Luzon, Mont Blanc, Narbonne, odds-on, on, outgone, outshone, Perón, phon, piñon, Pinot Blanc, plafond, Ramón, Saigon, Saint-Saëns, Sand, Schwann, scone, shone, side-on, sine qua non, Sorbonne, spot-on, swan, thereon, thereupon, ton, Toulon, undergone, upon, Villon, wan, whereon, whereupon, won, wonton, yon, Yvonne Angolan, Nolan, semicolon, stolen, swollen noun ˈkəʊlənˈkəʊlɒnˈkoʊlən Anatomy The main part of the large intestine, which passes from the caecum to the rectum and absorbs water and electrolytes from food which has remained undigested. Example sentencesExamples - He sustained a punctured colon, a collapsed lung, and a lacerated liver and kidney.
- Its goal is the purification and rejuvenation of the colon, because the colon is linked to all the other organs and tissues of the body.
- A second surgery the following day revealed a hole the size of pencil eraser in the colon where the two sections had been sutured together.
- It colonises the newborn's colon within hours of birth, and serves important intestinal physiological functions for the rest of the host's life.
- This antioxidant effect may also reduce the risk of some cancers, particularly of the breast and colon.
Synonyms gut, guts, entrails, viscera
Origin Late Middle English: via Latin from Greek kolon. nounkəˈlōn The basic monetary unit of Costa Rica and El Salvador, equal to 100 centimos in Costa Rica and 100 centavos in El Salvador. Example sentencesExamples - This sounds like pricey poker, but 30,000 colones is only about $9 US, so I wondered, with fields of about 100 players a night, how the casino was guaranteeing a prize pool of at least $10,000 US.
- The U.S. dollar is strong there, worth about 400 colones, the Costa Rican currency.
- ‘People are not interested in dollars or colones; they just want money,’ Barraza declared during the February forum.
Origin From Cristóbal Colón, the Spanish name of Christopher Columbus (see Columbus, Christopher). proper nounkəˈlōn The chief port of Panama, at the Caribbean Sea end of the Panama Canal; population 87,800 (est. 2009).
nounˈkōlənˈkoʊlən 1A punctuation mark (:) used to precede a list of items, a quotation, or an expansion or explanation. Example sentencesExamples - In less formal writing, the dash is often a catch-all mark to take the place of both colon and semicolon, obviating the need to distinguish them or think about more subtle kinds of punctuation.
- But it's hard enough for some people to acquire an instinctive sense of the different uses of commas, let alone the employment of colons and semi-colons.
- I have been finding too many contradictory sources on the use of colons versus semicolons, and now can remember neither quite right.
- Add a bracket to a colon and you get the text-message version of a smiley badge.
- Programming languages often consist of a seemingly random usage of parenthesis, brackets, asterisks, slashes, colons and semi-colons.
- 1.1 A colon used in various technical and formulaic contexts, for example a statement of proportion between two numbers, or to separate hours from minutes (and minutes from seconds) in a numerical statement of time.
Example sentencesExamples - Time is in army format without the colon between hours and minutes.
- 1.2 The number of the chapter and verse respectively in biblical references.
Origin Mid 16th century (as a term in rhetoric denoting a section of a complex sentence, or a pause before it): via Latin from Greek kōlon ‘limb, clause’. nounˈkōlənˈkoʊlən Anatomy The main part of the large intestine, which passes from the cecum to the rectum and absorbs water and electrolytes from food that has remained undigested. Its parts are called the ascending, transverse, descending, and sigmoid colon. Example sentencesExamples - Its goal is the purification and rejuvenation of the colon, because the colon is linked to all the other organs and tissues of the body.
- It colonises the newborn's colon within hours of birth, and serves important intestinal physiological functions for the rest of the host's life.
- He sustained a punctured colon, a collapsed lung, and a lacerated liver and kidney.
- A second surgery the following day revealed a hole the size of pencil eraser in the colon where the two sections had been sutured together.
- This antioxidant effect may also reduce the risk of some cancers, particularly of the breast and colon.
Synonyms gut, guts, entrails, viscera
Origin Late Middle English: via Latin from Greek kolon. |