Col

Definition: Col

Col

Noun

1. A pass between mountain peaks.

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Date "col" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1550. (references)

Geography

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Synonym: Col

Crosswords: Col

French (collar, defile, mountain pass, neck, neckband, pass, saddle), Scottish (an impediment, sin), Spanish (cabbage, cauliflower, Col, Cole), Welsh (awn).

The Irish Guards under the command of Col. Vandeleur will lead the attack (A Bridge Too Far; writing credit: Cornelius Ryan; William Goldman)

I never knew anyone who went crazy before, except for my invisible friend, Col. Schwartz (Family Guy; writing credit: Dolores Payás)

Col. Hogan if you ever escape (Hogan's Heroes; writing credit: Gail Allen; Gwen Bagni)

Col. Steiner, you're an extraordinary judge of character (The Eagle Has Landed; writing credit: Jack Higgins; Tom Mankiewicz)

You are sitting in Col. Earhardt's chair (To Be or Not to Be; writing credit: Ronny Graham; Ernst Lubitsch)

Appuntamento col disonore (1970)

Per favore... non sparate col cannone (1967)

Col cuore in gola (1967)

Via col para... vento (1958)

Vacanze col gangster (1951)

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Books

• Col. P.W. Norris: Yellowstone's Greatest Superintendent (reference)

• Images Of Middle-Earth Poster Col (reference)

• Jungle Ace: Col. Gerald R. Johnson, the USAAF's Top Fighter Leader of the Pacific War (reference)

• Kit Carson's Own Story of His Life: As Dictated to Col. and Mrs. D.C. Peters (reference)

• Last of the Great Scouts: The Life Story of Col. W.F. Cody (reference)

  (more book examples)

Music

• Bitter Alloys Ep/Pressures Col (reference)

• Anchor che col partire: Diminutions of the 16th Century (reference)

  (more classical music examples; more popular music examples)

High Tech

• Inetcam Inetcam Vts-8500 Live Video Stream Kit W/2 Col Cameras/Switcher (reference)

• Arcade's Greatest Hits-The William's Col (reference)

• BCI-21 COL INK TANK C3500-C5500 BJC-4000 5500 6PK (reference)

• Scanjet 5490cxi Fb Col 2400dpi 48bit Par USB Tpa & Adf (reference)

  (more camera examples; more video game examples; more computer examples; more electronic examples; more software examples)

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Lt. Col. Jean Soulez-Lariviere. Credit: NASA.

Col. Steve Hicks and Tech. Sgt. Benny Saunders.

Col. Kelly Cook.

Col. Hank Morrow, commander of the 149th Fighter Wing, Texas Air National Guard, Kelly Air Force Base, Texas, wears the new Libelle anti-gravity flight-suit that should improve a pilot's ability to handle the latest generation of high-performance jet airc.

09/29/00 - WASHINGTON --Lt. Col. Ken, and Majs. Karl and Kevin Rozelsky, meet at the Pentagon to be pinned-on by the Air Force chief of staff. The brothers -- all Air Force Academy graduates -- followed different career paths, but have opted to make the A.

Retired Air Force Col. Gail Halvorsen, known as the Candy Bomber during the Berlin Airlift after World War II, writes a message Dec. 12 to the people of the Micronesian Islands who were receiving cartons of humanitarian supplies during this year's Christm.

Lt. Col. Mark Milardo, a missile officer with the North American Aerospace Command tracks Santa's journey. The "NORAD Tracks Santa" program features a six-language live-tracking Web site designed to bring a touch of the season to eager Santa wat.

Col. Mark Schultz, 319th Air Refueling Wing Operations Group commander, Grand Forks, N.D., radios security forces about a simulated suspected car bomb during a field training exercise, March 6 at Ft. Dix, N.J. Schultz is at the Air Mobility Warfare Center.

Lt. Col. Cliff James.

Historic ruin in New Mexico, one of the buildings that makes up the Dripping Springs Resort in southern NM. Originally it was called Col. Eugene Van Patten's Mountain Camp named for the man who built it in the 1870's. Credit: Unknown.

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Then he passed to the Italian frontier, and he was one of the thirty grenadiers who defended the Col di Tende with Joubert

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Beginning with "col": COL-3, col-leagues, Col-oh-nell, col-ours, col-umns.

Ending with "col": Lieut-col, Lt-col.

Albanian

Qafë (collar, nape, neck, neckband, pass, saddle). (various references)

Arabic 

‏مضيق بين قمتين. (various references)

Bulgarian 

Проход, �"епресия, Седловина. (various references)

Chinese 

�"� � (Col-, Column). (various references)

Czech

Colorado. (various references)

Danish

col (neutral point, saddle point), pas (passport). (various references)

Dutch

zadelpunt (neutral point, saddle point), zadel (saddle), neutraal punt (hyperbolic point, neutral point, saddle point), bergpas (defile, mountain pass, pass), bergengte (defile, mountain pass). (various references)

Finnish

sola (defile, gorge, pass), satulapiste (neutral point, saddle point). (various references)

French

Col D'une Montagne, col barométrique, col (collar). (various references)

German

Spalte (break, chasm, chink, cleavage, cleft, column, crack, cranny, crevasse, crevice, fissure, fudge, gap, hole, pillar, rift), Gebirgspass. (various references)

Greek 

βαρομετρικός λαιμός (neutral point, saddle point), αυχήν (cervix, nape, neck), �"ιάσελο. (various references)

Hungarian

Nyereg (pigskin, saddle, saddle back), Hegynyereg (hogback, saddle). (various references)

Italian

valico (pass, passport), punto neutro (neutral point, saddle point), punto di sella (neutral point, saddle point), passo (excerpt, footprint, footstep, pace, pass, passage, rate, step, stride, tread, walk). (various references)

Japanese Kanji 

鞍部 (saddle between mountains), コリオリの力 (collision, collusion, Coriolis' force, cork, pinball machine game). (various references)

Japanese Katakana 

あ�"ぶ (dark side, saddle between mountains), コル . (various references)

Korean 

란 (Col-, Column). (various references)

Manx

mwannal (collar, fingerboard, imprudence, neck, scruff), braaid (gorge, target). (various references)

Pig Latin

olcay.(various references)

Portuguese

ravina (canyon, couloir, donga, flume, gulch, gully, hollow, kloof, nullah, ravine), garganta (abysm, defile, dingle, fauces, gap, gate, gizzard, gorge, gullet, neck, pass, ravine, swallow, throat, throttle, whistle). (various references)

Russian 

Седло. (various references)

Serbo-Croatian

klanac (pass). (various references)

Spanish

Columna (column, pillar), collado (neutral point, saddle point), Col (cabbage, cauliflower, Cole), puerto (gate, harbor, harbour, haven, light, port, saddle). (various references)

Swedish

sadelpunkt (neutral point, saddle point), pass (beat, defile, pass, passage, passport), neutralpunkt (neutral point, saddle point), Hålväg (gorge, Linn, notch, ravine), Bergspass (gate, mountain pass). (various references)

Thai

ช่องเขา (gorge). (various references)

Turkish

Dağ Geçidi (ghat, mountain pass, ravine). (various references)

Ukrainian

Сідло. (various references)

Collegium, columna. (various references)

Derivations

Words beginning with "col": cola, colander, colanders, colas, colatitude, colatitudes, colcannon, colcannons, colchicine, colchicines, colchicum, colchicums, cold, coldblood, coldblooded, coldcock, coldcocked, coldcocking, coldcocks, colder, coldest, coldhearted, coldheartedly, coldheartedness, coldheartednesses, coldish, coldly, coldness, coldnesses, colds, cole, colead, coleader, coleaders, coleading, coleads, coled, colemanite, colemanites, coleoptera, coleopteran, coleopterans, coleopterist, coleopterists, coleopterous, coleoptile, coleoptiles, coleorhiza, coleorhizae, coles, coleseed. (additional references)

Words ending with "col": caracol, chloramphenicol, glycol, guaiacol, nicol, protocol. (additional references)

Words containing "col": accolade, accolades, acold, acolyte, acolytes, anacolutha, anacoluthic, anacoluthically, anacoluthon, anacoluthons, anticold, anticollision, anticolonial, anticolonialism, anticolonialisms, anticolonialist, anticolonialists, anticolonials, arecoline, arecolines, arenicolous, autecological, autecologies, autecology, bicolor, bicolored, bicolors, bicolour, bicolours, borecole, borecoles, bricolage, bricolages, bricole, bricoles, broccoli, broccolis, brocoli, brocolis, bucolic, bucolically, bucolics, calcicole, calcicoles, calcicolous, caracole, caracoled, caracoles, caracoling, caracolled, caracolling. (additional references)

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

-1 letter: lo.

+1 letter: bloc, calo, clod, clog, clon, clop, clot, cloy, coal, coil, cola, cold, cole, cols, colt, coly, cool, cowl, floc, loca, loch, loci, lock, loco.

+2 letters: acold, block, blocs, calos, carol, cello, celom, ceorl, cholo, cibol, claro, cloak, clock, clods, clogs, clomb, clomp, clone, clonk, clons, cloot, clops, close, cloth, clots, cloud, clour, clout, clove, clown, cloys, cloze, coala, coals, coaly, coble, coils, colas, colds, coled, coles, colic, colin, colly, colog, colon, color, colts, colza, comal, cools, cooly, copal, coral, could, cowls, coxal, coyly, cyclo, cymol, dolce, dolci, flock, flocs, focal, loach, local, lochs, locks, locos, locum, locus, logic, lotic, nicol, octal, octyl, oculi, oleic, scold, scowl, socle, vocal, wilco.