col
IPA: kɑɫ
noun
- (geography) A dip on a mountain ridge between two peaks.
- (meteorology) A pressure region between two anticyclones and two low-pressure regions.
- A diminutive of the male given name Colin
- Clipping of column. [(architecture) A solid upright structure designed usually to support a larger structure above it, such as a roof or horizontal beam, but sometimes for decoration.]
- Abbreviation of color. [(uncountable) The spectral composition of visible light.]
- Abbreviation of Colima (a state of Mexico). [A state of Mexico.]
- (sports) Abbreviation of Colorado (a state of the United States of America). [A major river of western North America, running from the Rocky Mountains in the United States to the Gulf of California in Mexico.]
- Initialism of cost of living. [The average cost of a standard set of basic necessities of life, especially of food, shelter and clothing.]
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Examples of "col" in Sentences
- Because it's the col of modernity.
- Broadcast area and COL below that.
- Col is the difference between and ...
- Cobden Col was the outlet of this lake.
- Col. Simcoe's description of the battle.
- The cyclist then started the climb to the Col Bayard.
- There is a bivouac hut at the high snow saddle of the Col.
- The last time you redesigned your site, I was in college.
- Col Brown became the commander of the artillery reserve of the corps.
- This draws many cycling fanatics to cycle the cols and watch the race.
- Col Joseph Husband, the inventor of the zebra crossing, lives in the area.
- Apparantly the only bath the col is taking is the one he’s getting here at think progress!
- It was only a few minutes walk from there to the col, which is the border between France and Switzerland.
- When I was a sophomore away in college, my parents suddenly moved away from the house I’d lived in since 4th grade.
- I remember being up late one night as I was packing up my dorm room after my junior year in college, when the infomercial for Nads came on the TV.
- (He claims it was misinterpreted by the evil Clinton administration, and was only supposed to apply to students so convicted while in college.
- I know a happily married, very domestic, couple of whom the wife first thought perhaps the husband liked her when he held her hair back while she was throwing up in college.
- When I was in college, I used to love these two recordings by a University of Pennsylvania a cappella group — one was a cover of “Baby” by Nil Lara, the other a cover of Stevie Wonder’s version of the Beatles’ “We Can Work It Out.”
- Pope John Paul II was widely beloved, and I think you’d find many who’d describe him as the epitome of wise moral leadership, but then you can’t really overlook that thin collective that considers him one of the 20th Century’s worst moral tyrants, canyou?
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