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/kˈoʊlən/ Listen

noun

Colon n.

(Anat.) That part of the large intestines which extends from the caecum to the rectum.

(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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"Colon" Quotes from Famous Books

... llamo la Atlantida sonada! page 153 Pero Dios reservaba La empresa ruda al genio renaciente De la latina raza, idomadora De pueblos, combatiente 5 De las grandes batallas de la historia! Y cuando fue la hora, Colon aparecio sobre la nave Del destino del mundo portadora— Y la nave avanzo. Y el Oceano, 10 Hurano y turbulento, Lanzo al encuentro del bajel latino Los negros aquilones, iY a su frente rugiendo el torbellino, Jinete en el relampago sangriento! ...

— Modern Spanish Lyrics • Various

... Mainly the Folio punctuation. A colon after 'Lucilius,' and a comma after 'you,' would ...

— The New Hudson Shakespeare: Julius Caesar • William Shakespeare

... full stop after [Greek: polin] in v. 749 should be removed, and a colon, or mark of hyperbaton substituted. On looking at Paley's edition, ...

— Prometheus Bound and Seven Against Thebes • Aeschylus

... this book? for there it appears that the author's MS. was "veneratione non parva" preserved, and there he most probably died. I would say that it was printed between 1465 and 1470. It is bound up with a Fasciculus Temporum, Colon. 1479, which looks quite modern when compared with it, and its beginning is: "De Vita hiesu a venerabili viro fratro (sic) Ludolpho Cartusiensi edita incipit feliciter." The leaves are in number forty-eight. At the end of the ...

— Notes and Queries, 1850.12.21 - A Medium of Inter-communication for Literary Men, Artists, - Antiquaries, Genealogists, etc. • Various

... a little shirt shop in Colon, Panama, on Calle 10a between Avenida Herrera and Avenida Amador Guerrero, whose red and black painted shingle announces that Lola Osawa ...

— Secret Armies - The New Technique of Nazi Warfare • John L. Spivak

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