colon

名词 n.
中文释义
英 /ˈkəʊ.lən/|/ˈkəʊ.lɒn/    美 /ˈkoʊ.lən/|/ˈkɔ.lən/|[ˈkʰɔ.ɫn̩]

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. The punctuation mark ⟨:⟩.
    — A colon tells the reader that what follows is closely related to the preceding clause.
  2. Part of the large intestine; the final segment of the digestive system, after (distal to) the ileum and before (proximal to) the rectum. (Because the colon is the largest part of the large intestine (constituting most of it), it is often treated as synonymous therewith in broad or casual usage.)
    — Colorectal cancer refers to colon cancer, which starts in the colon, and rectal cancer, which starts in the rectum.
  3. A husbandman. obsolete
  4. The triangular colon (especially in context of not being able to type the actual triangular colon). rare
  5. A European colonial settler, especially in a French colony.
    — The reaction of the European colons, a mixture of shock and fear, was to demand further draconian measures and to suspend any suggestion of new reforms.
  6. A rhetorical figure consisting of a clause which is grammatically, but not logically, complete. rhetoric
  7. A clause or group of clauses written as a line, or taken as a standard of measure in ancient manuscripts or texts.

词形变化

colons plural cola plural colons plural cola plural coli plural colons plural colone alternative

词汇关系

衍生词
colon-point dicolon semicolon tricolon
相关词
apostrophe curly brackets brace square bracket bracket comma dash ellipsis exclamation mark fraction slash guillemet hyphen interpunct interrobang parentheses (US Canada) full stop period question mark quotation marks semicolon slash stroke space

词源

词源 1
From Latin cōlon (“a member of a verse of poem”), from Ancient Greek κῶλον (kôlon, “a member, limb, clause, part of a verse”).
词源 2
From Latin cŏlon (“large intestine”), from Ancient Greek κόλον (kólon, “the large intestine, also food, meat, fodder”).
词源 3
From French colon.
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