Definition of colon, Meaning of colon, Translation of colon

ascending colon Click to Search ascending colon
noun the part of the large intestine that ascends from the cecum to the transverse colon • Hypernyms: colon • Part Holonyms: large intestine • Part Meronyms: ascending artery, arteria ascendens

colon Click to Search colon
noun 1. the part of the large intestine between the cecum and the rectum; it extracts moisture from food residues before they are excreted (Freq. 2) • Derivationally related forms: colonic • Hypernyms: large intestine • Hyponyms: megacolon, transverse colon, ascending colon, descending colon, sigmoid colon, sigmoid flexure • Part Meronyms: sigmoid vein, vena sigmoideus 2. the basic unit of money in El Salvador; equal to 100 centavos • Syn: El Salvadoran colon • Hypernyms: El Salvadoran monetary unit • Part Meronyms: centavo 3. the basic unit of money in Costa Rica; equal to 100 centimos • Syn: Costa Rican colon • Hypernyms: Costa Rican monetary unit • Part Meronyms: centimo 4. a punctuation mark (:) used after a word introducing a series or an example or an explanation (or after the salutation of a business letter) • Hypernyms: punctuation, punctuation mark

Colon Click to Search Colon
noun a port city at the Caribbean entrance to the Panama Canal • Syn: Aspinwall • Instance Hypernyms: city, metropolis, urban center, port • Part Holonyms: Panama, Republic of Panama

colon cancer Click to Search colon cancer
noun a malignant tumor of the colon; early symptom is bloody stools • Hypernyms: carcinoma

colonel Click to Search colonel
noun a commissioned military officer in the United States Army or Air Force or Marines who ranks above a lieutenant colonel and below a brigadier general (Freq. 33) • Topics: military, armed forces, armed services, military machine, war machine • Hypernyms: commissioned military officer • Hyponyms: lieutenant colonel, light colonel

Colonel Blimp Click to Search Colonel Blimp
noun 1. any elderly pompous reactionary ultranationalistic person (after the cartoon character created by Sir David Low) • Syn: Blimp • Regions: United Kingdom, UK, U.K., Britain, United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, Great Britain • Hypernyms: reactionary, ultraconservative, extreme right-winger 2. a pompous reactionary cartoon character created by Sir David Low • Instance Hypernyms: fictional character, fictitious character, character

colonial Click to Search colonial
I noun a resident of a colony (Freq. 1) • Hypernyms: resident, occupant, occupier • Member Holonyms: colony, settlement II adjective 1. of or relating to or characteristic of or inhabiting a colony (Freq. 5) • Pertains to noun: colony • Derivationally related forms: colony 2. of animals who live in colonies, such as ants • Pertains to noun: colony • Derivationally related forms: colony 3. composed of many distinct individuals united to form a whole or colony - example : coral is a colonial organism • Syn: compound • Similar to: complex • Topics: zoology, zoological science

colonialism Click to Search colonialism
noun exploitation by a stronger country of weaker one; the use of the weaker country's resources to strengthen and enrich the stronger country • Derivationally related forms: colonialist • Hypernyms: exploitation, victimization, victimisation, using • Hyponyms: neocolonialism

colonialist Click to Search colonialist
noun a believer in colonialism • Derivationally related forms: colonialism • Hypernyms: believer, truster

colonic Click to Search colonic
I noun a water enema given to flush out the colon • Syn: colonic irrigation • Hypernyms: enema, clyster • Hyponyms: high colonic II adjective of or relating to the colon • Pertains to noun: colon • Derivationally related forms: colon

colonic irrigation Click to Search colonic irrigation
noun a water enema given to flush out the colon • Syn: colonic • Derivationally related forms: colonic (for: colonic) • Hypernyms: enema, clyster • Hyponyms: high colonic

colonisation Click to Search colonisation
noun the act of colonizing; the establishment of colonies - example : the British colonization of America • Syn: colonization, settlement • Derivationally related forms: settle (for: settlement), colonise, colonize (for: colonization) • Hypernyms: constitution, establishment, formation, organization, organisation • Hyponyms: population

colonise Click to Search colonise
verb 1. settle as a colony; of countries in the developing world - example : Europeans colonized Africa in the 17th century • Syn: colonize • Ant: decolonise, decolonize (for: colonize) • Derivationally related forms: colonisation, coloniser, colony, colonization (for: colonize), colonizer (for: colonize), colony (for: colonize) • Hypernyms: annex • Verb Frames: - example : Somebody ----s something 2. settle as colonists or establish a colony (in) - example : The British colonized the East Coast • Syn: colonize • Derivationally related forms: colonisation, colony, colonization (for: colonize), colony (for: colonize) • Hypernyms: settle, locate • Verb Frames: - example : Somebody ----s something

colonised Click to Search colonised
adjective inhabited by colonists • Syn: colonized, settled • Similar to: inhabited

coloniser Click to Search coloniser
noun someone who helps to found a colony • Syn: colonizer • Derivationally related forms: colonise, colonize (for: colonizer) • Hypernyms: founder, beginner, founding father, father • Instance Hyponyms: Raleigh, Walter Raleigh, Sir Walter Raleigh, Ralegh, Walter Ralegh, Sir Walter Ralegh, Rhodes, Cecil Rhodes, Cecil J. Rhodes, Cecil John Rhodes

colonist Click to Search colonist
noun a person who settles in a new colony or moves into new country • Syn: settler • Derivationally related forms: Colony, colony, settle (for: settler) • Hypernyms: migrant, migrator • Hyponyms: Pilgrim, Pilgrim Father, pioneer, sourdough, squatter, homesteader, nester • Instance Hyponyms: Endecott, Endicott, John Endecott, John Endicott, Hutchinson, Anne Hutchinson, Minuit, Peter Minuit, Minnewit, Peter Minnewit, Standish, Miles Standish, Myles Standish, Williams, Roger Williams, Winslow, Edward Winslow

colonization Click to Search colonization
noun the act of colonizing; the establishment of colonies - example : the British colonization of America • Syn: colonisation, settlement • Derivationally related forms: settle (for: settlement), colonise (for: colonisation), colonize • Hypernyms: constitution, establishment, formation, organization, organisation • Hyponyms: population

colonize Click to Search colonize
verb 1. settle as a colony; of countries in the developing world (Freq. 1) - example : Europeans colonized Africa in the 17th century • Syn: colonise • Ant: decolonise (for: colonise), decolonize • Derivationally related forms: colonisation (for: colonise), coloniser (for: colonise), colony (for: colonise), colonization, colonizer, colony • Hypernyms: annex • Verb Frames: - example : Somebody ----s something 2. settle as colonists or establish a colony (in) - example : The British colonized the East Coast • Syn: colonise • Derivationally related forms: colonisation (for: colonise), colony (for: colonise), colonization, colony • Hypernyms: settle, locate • Verb Frames: - example : Somebody ----s something

colonized Click to Search colonized
adjective inhabited by colonists • Syn: colonised, settled • Similar to: inhabited

colonizer Click to Search colonizer
noun someone who helps to found a colony • Syn: coloniser • Derivationally related forms: colonise (for: coloniser), colonize • Hypernyms: founder, beginner, founding father, father • Instance Hyponyms: Raleigh, Walter Raleigh, Sir Walter Raleigh, Ralegh, Walter Ralegh, Sir Walter Ralegh, Rhodes, Cecil Rhodes, Cecil J. Rhodes, Cecil John Rhodes

colonnade Click to Search colonnade
noun 1. structure consisting of a row of evenly spaced columns • Hypernyms: structure, construction • Hyponyms: peristyle 2. a structure composed of a series of arches supported by columns • Syn: arcade • Hypernyms: structure, construction • Hyponyms: loggia • Part Meronyms: arch

colonnaded Click to Search colonnaded
adjective having a series of columns arranged at regular intervals • Similar to: columned

colonoscope Click to Search colonoscope
noun an elongated fiberoptic endoscope for examining the entire colon from cecum to rectum • Hypernyms: endoscope

colonoscopy Click to Search colonoscopy
noun visual examination of the colon (with a colonoscope) from the cecum to the rectum; requires sedation • Hypernyms: endoscopy

Colony Click to Search Colony
noun one of the 13 British colonies that formed the original states of the United States • Derivationally related forms: colonist • Hypernyms: geographical area, geographic area, geographical region, geographic region • Instance Hyponyms: Connecticut, Delaware, Georgia, Maryland, Massachusetts, Massachusetts Bay Colony, New Hampshire, New Jersey, New York, North Carolina, Pennsylvania, Rhode Island, South Carolina, Virginia • Part Holonyms: United States, United States of America, America, the States, US, U.S., USA, U.S.A.

colony Click to Search colony
noun 1. a body of people who settle far from home but maintain ties with their homeland; inhabitants remain nationals of their home state but are not literally under the home state's system of government (Freq. 7) - example : the American colony in Paris • Syn: settlement • Derivationally related forms: settle (for: settlement), colonial, colonist, colonize, colonise • Hypernyms: body • Hyponyms: frontier settlement, outpost, Plantation, proprietary colony • Instance Hyponyms: Demerara, Gibraltar, Rock of Gibraltar, Calpe, Plymouth Colony, New Amsterdam • Member Meronyms: colonial 2. a group of organisms of the same type living or growing together (Freq. 2) • Derivationally related forms: colonial • Hypernyms: biological group • Part Meronyms: caste 3. a place where a group of people with the same interest or occupation are concentrated - example : a nudist colony - example : an artists' colony • Hypernyms: place, property 4. a geographical area politically controlled by a distant country • Syn: dependency • Derivationally related forms: dependent (for: dependency), colonial, colonist • Hypernyms: geographical area, geographic area, geographical region, geographic region • Hyponyms: Crown Colony • Instance Hyponyms: Cayman Islands, New Netherland 5. (microbiology) a group of organisms grown from a single parent cell • Topics: microbiology • Hypernyms: animal group

Costa Rican colon Click to Search Costa Rican colon
noun the basic unit of money in Costa Rica; equal to 100 centimos • Syn: colon • Hypernyms: Costa Rican monetary unit • Part Meronyms: centimo

Cristobal Colon Click to Search Cristobal Colon
noun Italian navigator who discovered the New World in the service of Spain while looking for a route to China (1451-1506) • Syn: Columbus, Christopher Columbus, Cristoforo Colombo • Derivationally related forms: Columbian (for: Columbus) • Instance Hypernyms: navigator

descending colon Click to Search descending colon
noun the part of the large intestine that descends from the transverse colon to the sigmoid colon • Hypernyms: colon • Part Holonyms: large intestine

El Salvadoran colon Click to Search El Salvadoran colon
noun the basic unit of money in El Salvador; equal to 100 centavos • Syn: colon • Hypernyms: El Salvadoran monetary unit • Part Meronyms: centavo

sigmoid colon Click to Search sigmoid colon
noun the s-shaped curve between the descending colon and the rectum • Syn: sigmoid flexure • Hypernyms: colon • Part Holonyms: large intestine

spastic colon Click to Search spastic colon
noun recurrent abdominal pain and diarrhea (often alternating with periods of constipation); often associated with emotional stress • Syn: irritable bowel syndrome, mucous colitis • Hypernyms: colitis, inflammatory bowel disease

transverse colon Click to Search transverse colon
noun the part of the large intestine that extends across the abdominal cavity and joins the ascending to the descending colon • Hypernyms: colon • Part Holonyms: large intestine

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