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Definition: Cola |
ColaNoun1. Large genus of African trees bearing kola nuts. 2. Carbonated drink flavored with extract from Kola nuts (`dope' is a southernism in the United States). Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "Cola" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1960. (references) |
| Domain | Definition |
Census | (Cost of Living Adjustment) Annual adjustments to annuities to reflect changes in the cost of living based on the rate of inflation. (references) |
Law | Cost-of-living adjustment. (references) |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
(From Wikipedia, the free Encyclopedia)
A cola is a sweet carbonated drink, usually with caramel flavoring, that frequently contains caffeine. The flavor of the drink comes from a mixture of vanilla, cinnamon, and citrus.
The drink may also be caffeine-free, and although some people (perhaps with a touch of irony) disagree on calling such a drink a cola, neither the cola companies themselves nor the vast majority of consumers would make such a distinction. The name comes from the kola nutss that are often used in production.
Cola drinks may be sweetened with some form of sugar or with an artificial sweetener.
Cola is a popular drink among hackers.
Major brands of cola include Coca-Cola, Pepsi and various local producers. Jolt Cola also has a dedicated cult following, as it has more caffeine than any other cola (or any other carbonated drink, for that matter). Inca Kola is a major South American brand.
In 2002 a new brand, Mecca Cola, aimed at Muslim customers, was launched in France by Tawfik Mathlouthi. The product became available in the UK in 2003. Some of the profits are directed to the Palestinian cause, and to domestic charities. [Source: Channel 4 News, 8 Jan 03]
see also: soft drink, Open Cola, soda
Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "Cola."
| The following table is compiled from various sources, across various languages. When English abbreviations or acronyms come from a non-English source, this is noted. | |||
| Entry | Source | Expression | Field |
COLA | English | Conversational Oriented Language | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |||
Synonyms: ColaSynonyms: dope (n), genus Cola (n). (additional references) |
Crosswords: Cola |
| English words defined with "Cola": Coca Cola, coke, Cola acuminata, cola nut ♦ goora nut ♦ kola, kola nut, kola nut tree ♦ Pepsi, Pepsi Cola ♦ tyramine. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "Cola": Last of the Tribunes ♦ programming fluid. (references) |
| Non-English Usage: "Cola" is also a word in the following languages with English translations in parentheses. Italian (sieve, sifter), Luxembourgish (coke), Portuguese (cola, cola beverage, cola drink, crib, cushion, glue, gum, kola, size), Spanish (bottom, cement, glue, gum, line, queue, rear, size, tail, trail, train), Swedish (Cola). |
| Domain | Usage | |
Screenplays | I suck 'em down like Coca Cola! (Seinfeld; writing credit: Andreas Lenze; Bea Schmidt) Some ice cream at the store since I'm saving so much money on Diet Cola! (The Simpsons; writing credit: Artur Brauner; Paul Hengge) You got me a cola drink (Friends; writing credit: Jörn O. Jensen; Birger Larsen) No, there's already a soda like that -- Soylent Cola. (Futurama; writing credit: Lance Smith; Carl Colpaert) Max likes cherry cola. What does Michael like (Roswell; writing credit: Ronald D. Moore; Gretchen J. Berg) | |
Lyrics | Rock and Roller cola wars, I can't take it anymore (We Didn't Start The Fire; performing artist: Billy Joel) | |
Movie/TV Titles | Miss Coca Cola (1955) La Pescadilla que se muerde la cola (2002) Phylactère Cola (2001) Opera Cola (1992) MTV Coca Cola Report (1990) | |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | ||
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| Thumbnail | Description & Credit | Thumbnail | Description & Credit |
 | Colored boys playing on top of Coca Cola stand. Little Rock, Arkansas. Credit: Library of Congress. |  | Coca Cola. General landscape near Black Mountain. North Carolina. Credit: Library of Congress. |
 | Steiner Plastics, Oyster Bay. Coca Cola sign. Credit: Library of Congress. |  | La cola del diablo. Credit: Library of Congress. |
Source: pictures compiled by the editor from various references; see picture credits. | |||
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| "Coca cola" by Michele Falzone Commentary: "From the Ad in Piccadilly Circus, London." | "04-coca cola" by Glòria Garcia Falcó Commentary: "Un got." |
Source: photographs selected by the editor, with permission from the photographers. | |
| Subject | Topic | Quote |
Health | These include foods with caffeine (coffee, tea, cola, or chocolate) and alcohol. (references) | |
Business | Coca Cola ($500 million) -- Coca Cola, Fanta, Sprite and other products are already produced in 16 areas in China. (references) | |
The recently privatized utility and oil companies, and other large corporations such as Coca Cola, Phillip Morris, Molinos S.A., all with an extensive distribution network throughout the country (exposing company assets and staff to risk), are principal purchasers of security products, especially GPS and CCTV. Banks are also among the most important end-users of security equipment and have been expanding their use of sophisticated access control equipment, alarm systems and remote sensors. (references) | ||
Economic History | Cyprus | However, until the two sides reach a compromise formula, COLA is set to stay. (references) |
Sri Lanka | The few U.S. franchises include Coca Cola, Pepsi, Pizza Hut, UPS, Federal Express, Kentucky Fried Chicken (KFC) and McDonald's. (references) | |
Cyprus | The current economy-wide practice of increasing the bi-annual Cost of Living Allowance (COLA) for employees is a contentious issue between unions and employers. (references) | |
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits. | ||
| "Cola" is generally used as a noun (proper) -- approximately 62.23% of the time. "Cola" is used about 188 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Noun (proper) | 62.23% | 117 | 29,823 |
| Noun (singular) | 37.77% | 71 | 39,674 |
| Total | 100.00% | 188 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| The following table summarizes the usage of "Cola" based on a population census conducted in the United States. Ranks and frequencies are based on all names reported and classified. |
| Name | Usage/Gender | Usage per 100 million Persons | Rank in USA |
| Cola | Last name | 1,000 | 17,827 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits. | |||
Expressions using "Cola": Coca Cola ♦ Cola acuminata ♦ cola extract ♦ cola nut ♦ Cola seed ♦ cola tree ♦ genus Cola ♦ Pepsi Cola ♦ viento de cola. Additional references. | |
| Hyphenated Usage | |
Beginning with "Cola": cola-based, cola-free. | |
Ending with "Cola": Coca-Cola, Coco-cola, Co-cola, Croak-a-cola, Croaka-cola, Hugo-cola, Oca-cola, Pepsi-Cola. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day | Expression | Frequency per Day |
coca cola | 8,056 | rc cola | 105 |
pepsi cola | 826 | coca cola employment | 105 |
coke cola | 565 | coka cola | 103 |
coca cola collectible | 403 | coca cola screensaver | 102 |
cola | 391 | coca cola scholarship | 98 |
coca cola company | 357 | coca cola wallpaper | 84 |
coca cola bear | 344 | coca cola bottling company | 81 |
coca cola.com | 274 | canada coca cola | 79 |
coca cola memorabilia | 254 | pepsi cola company | 79 |
coca cola history | 229 | coca cola museum | 78 |
coca cola enterprise | 218 | coca cola cooler | 67 |
coca cola racing family | 182 | coca cola racing | 64 |
coca cola product | 157 | coca cola bottling | 63 |
world of coca cola | 147 | coca cola flag six | 62 |
coca cola logo | 137 | cola jolt | 61 |
coca cola bottle | 131 | cola mecca | 61 |
coca cola job | 121 | coca cola light | 58 |
coca cola co | 118 | coca cola vending machine | 57 |
coco cola | 113 | coca cola antique | 54 |
coca cola picture | 111 | coca cola merchandise | 54 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |||
| Language | Translations for "Cola"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Albanian | Kokakola (Coca-cola). (various references) | |
Bulgarian | Кока-кола, Кола (Kola). (various references) | |
Chinese | 可乐. (various references) | |
Czech | Kola. (various references) | |
Danish | coletur (to be filtered), colatræ, cola (cola beverage, cola drink), lønindeksering (cost of living adjustment, cost-of-living-adjustment), indeksreguleret løn (cost of living adjustment, cost-of-living-adjustment). (various references) | |
Dutch | coletur (to be filtered), colet. (to be filtered), coladrank (cola beverage, cola drink), cola, prijscompensatie (cost of living adjustment, cost-of-living-adjustment), filtreer (to be filtered). (various references) | |
Finnish | koolapuu, kolapuu, kolajuoma (cola beverage, cola drink). (various references) | |
French | colatier, cola (cola beverage, cola drink), majoration des salaires compensant la hausse des prix (cost of living adjustment, cost-of-living-adjustment), à filtrer. (various references) | |
German | coletur (to be filtered), colet (to be filtered), Colagetränk (cola beverage, cola drink), Colabaum, Cola (cola beverage, cola drink), Angleichung der Lebenshaltungskosten (cost of living adjustment, cost-of-living-adjustment). (various references) | |
Greek | να διηθηθεί (to be filtered), ποτό κόλα (cola beverage, cola drink), χυμόσ Του Δέντρου Των Τροπικών (Kola), Δένδρο Των Τροπικών (Kola), διήθησις (seepage, to be filtered), ίαρπόσ Του Δέντρου Των Τροπικών (Kola). (various references) | |
Hungarian | kóla (coke). (various references) | |
Italian | coletur (to be filtered), colet. (to be filtered), cola (sieve, sifter), variazione nella contingenza (cost of living adjustment, cost-of-living-adjustment), adeguamento per costo della vita (cost of living adjustment, cost-of-living-adjustment). (various references) | |
Japanese Kanji | コーヒー豆 (call, call broker, call girl, call loan, call money, call rate, call sign, call-back, called, called game, choir exercises, chorus, chorus girl, coal tar, coffee bean, Cohen, cold, cold beef, cold chain, cold chicken, cold coffee, cold cream, cold meat, cold permanent wave, cold war, cold wave, coleslaw, coop, coral, coral island, cord, corded velveteen, corduroy, corporate identity, corporated house, corporation, corpse, Koran). (various references) | |
Japanese Katakana | コーラ . (various references) | |
Korean | 콜라. (various references) | |
Pig Latin | olacay.(various references) | |
Portuguese | cola (crib, glue, gum, kola, size). (various references) | |
Russian | Кола (Kola), кола. (various references) | |
Serbo-Croatian | kola (car, kola, wain). (various references) | |
Spanish | cola (bottom, cement, glue, gum, line, queue, rear, size, tail, trail, train), Reajuste Salarial, para filtrar (to be filtered), ajuste de los salarios de acuerdo con el índice del coste de la vida (cost of living adjustment, cost-of-living-adjustment). (various references) | |
Swedish | cola-dryck (cola beverage, cola drink), Cola, kolaträd. (various references) | |
Turkish | Kola (coke, soda, starch, stiffening). (various references) | |
Ukrainian | Кола (Kola), Гуру, Горіх Кола. (various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
| Language | Period | Translations |
| Latin | 500 BCE-Modern | Cola spp.. (various references) |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | ||
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "Cola": colander, colanders, colas, colatitude, colatitudes. (additional references) | |
Words ending with "Cola": noncola. (additional references) | |
Words containing "Cola": accolade, accolades, bricolage, bricolages, chocolate, chocolates, chocolatey, chocolatier, chocolatiers, chocolaty, escolar, escolars, machicolated, machicolation, machicolations, percolate, percolated, percolates, percolating, percolation, percolations, percolator, percolators. (additional references) | |
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"Cola" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: cala, calaa, calax, Caolan, Cawla, ceal, cela, cfla, choal, chola, chollah, cholo, cial, cila, cile, ckl, cla, clo, Cload, cloau, cloe, cloi, Cloxam, coa, coalay, coaln, cobla, cocle, cofa, coga, Cohla, Coila, cokle, Colaba, Colap, colar, colax, colb, colea, coley, colf, coli, colim, colip, collah, Collam, Collan, colle, collf, colli, colm, colmap, coln, colou, colpa, Colpan, Colta, comla, cona, cooga, Coole, cooli, coolmax, copa, copam, copaw, cosa, cova, cowa, Cowlam, cowle, cual, Cula, Culag, Culra, cxli, Cylla, ecoli, Ecolo, Gcol, jola, nola, ocle, Ocli, Oclo, scola, solla, wola. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "Cola" (pronounced kō"lu) |
| 3 | -ō" l u | Ayatollah, Bola, canola, granola, Mola, payola, pergola, Sola, Viola. |
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
Direct Anagrams: calo, coal, loca. | |
| Words within the letters "a-c-l-o" | |
-1 letter: col, lac, oca. | |
-2 letters: al, la, lo. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-c-l-o" | |
+1 letter: acold, calos, carol, claro, cloak, coala, coals, coaly, colas, colza, comal, copal, coral, coxal, focal, loach, local, octal, vocal. | |
+2 letters: alcove, alnico, cajole, calico, callow, calory, canola, caroli, carols, catalo, chalot, cholla, choral, citola, clamor, claros, claxon, cloaca, cloaks, clonal, coalas, coaled, coaler, coaxal, cobalt, coccal, coeval, coital, colead, collar, colzas, copalm, copals, copula, corals, corral, costal, cupola, falcon, flacon, locale, locals, locate, lochan, lochia, lorica, ocular, oilcan, oracle, oscula, oxalic, recoal, social, solace, vocals. | |
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