col

Definitions  ·  Examples  ·  Pronunciations  ·  Etymologies  ·  Related  ·  Statistics  ·  Comments (1)  · 
COM_Release (col), VarSetCapacity (col, 0), COM_Release (pWin), VarSetCapacity (pWin, 0)

View all »
Definitions (5)

Toggle American Heritage definitions American Heritage Dictionary (1)

  1. noun A pass between two mountain peaks or a gap in a ridge.

Toggle Century definitions Century Dictionary (2)

Toggle GNU Webster definitions GNU Webster's 1913 (1)

Toggle WordNet definitions WordNet (1)

Toggle elsewhere links Elsewhere on the web

View all »
Examples (40)

  • For a short distance the path ran en corniche along the margin of the descent, until it reached the remotest point of what might be called the col , whose southern edge is irregular, and then it plunged, by the most practicable descent which could be found, towards its Italian destination. —  A Residence in France
  • The view from the col is in admirable keeping with its desolation. —  A Residence in France
  • D col - T_est = b + m (T_act - T_est) = $D$3 + $D$4* (A8 - 1659) —  RealClimate
  • DataSet [row - 1] = (char *) malloc (sizeof (char) * col * 6); —  LinuxQuestions.org
  • IfEqual, col,, SetEnv, col, \% SubStr (A_LoopField,1,8) else If A_LoopField IS Number var: = Round (A_LoopField) break —  AutoHotkey Community
 

Tags

col hasn't been tagged yet.

Sign up or sign in to add tags.

Stats

This word has been looked up 102 times.

On Twitter

Photos from

flickr images

Etymologies (2)

Toggle American Heritage etymologies American Heritage Dictionary (1)

  1. French, from Old French, neck, from Latin collum; see kwel-1 in Indo-European roots.

Toggle Century etymologies Century Dictionary (1)

  1. French, the neck, a pass, defile, from Latin collum, the neck: see collar.
 

Pronunciations
Record your own »

/kɑl/
by American Heritage

Charts

frequency chart

Bubble size: how much this word was used in a year

Bubble height: used more or less than expected, vs. all uses evenly distributed

You can expect to see this word about twice a month.

Recently looked up

hack · eodem · ploys · pyromania · freeman

Recent Favorites

pygopagus · sanglant · Astacus · sweetbread · qualms

Recent Pronunciations

qualms · poofter · oh for heaven's sake · embodies · silence