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Definition: COLL |
COLLTransitive verb1. To embrace. |
Date "COLL" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1380. (references) |
Etymology: Coll \Coll\, transitive verb. [Old French expression coler, from the Latin expression collum neck.]. (Websters 1913) |
Crosswords: COLL |
| Specialty definitions using "COLL": SUS PER COLL. (references) |
| Etymologies containing "COLL": Colling, Colstaff. (references) |
| Non-English Usage: "COLL" is also a word in the following language with English translations in parentheses. Welsh (defect, failing, loss). |
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Movie/TV Titles | Mad Dog Coll (1999) | |
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| Thumbnail | Description & Credit | Thumbnail | Description & Credit |
 | Plate XXVIII. 104. Rhinoscopelus Coccoi, (Cocco), Goode and Bean. From ALBATROS S, in N. Lat. 39, W. Lon. 72. 105. Tarletonbeania tenua, Eigenmann and Eigenmann . From off Point Loma, Calif. 106. Dasyscopelus asper, (Richardson), Goode and Bean. From Richardson, "Voyage of the Erebus and Terror." 107. Electrona Risso i, (Cocco), Goode and Bean. From Cent. Coll. of Italian Vertebrata, Florence. Credit: National Marine Fisheries Historical Image Collection. |  | Robertus Cony M.D. Coll. Reg. Medicor. Lond. Socius. / E. Luttrell delin. & fecit. Credit: National Library of Medicine. |
 | Is christened by Mrs. Margarita Coll de Santori, during launching ceremonies at the Bethlehem Steel Company's Fore River Shipyard, Quincy, Massachusetts, 6 September 1941. Credit: NAVY. |  | Mr. and Mrs. Vincent Coll, full-length portrait, walking through a crowd with their faces covered after being released from court. Credit: Library of Congress. |
 | The telephone booth in which Vincent Coll was murdered. Credit: Library of Congress. |  | Vincent Coll, half-length portrait, facing left, in Bathgate Police Station, Bronx, N.Y. Credit: Library of Congress. |
 | The tidal wave--July 4, 1918, 95 ships launched / Coll ; Thomsen-Ellis Co., Baltimore, New York. Credit: Library of Congress. | ||
Source: pictures compiled by the editor from various references; see picture credits. | |||
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Economic History | Slovak Rep | Price liberalization began in 1991 and is defined by Act No. 526/1990 Coll. (references) |
Trade | Slovak Rep | Under Slovak legislation, customs valuation is specified by articles 20, 21, 22 and 28 of law No.618/1992 Coll. (references) |
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits. | ||
| "COLL" is generally used as a noun (proper) -- approximately 85.71% of the time. "COLL" is used about 42 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) | 85.71% | 36 | 57,479 |
| Unclassified Items | 14.29% | 6 | 143,867 |
| Total | 100.00% | 42 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| The following table summarizes the usage of "COLL" 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 |
| Coll | Last name | 1,000 | 11,256 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits. | |||
Expression using "COLL": Mc Coll. Additional references. | |
| Hyphenated Usage | |
Beginning with "COLL": Coll-oh-nell. | |
Ending with "COLL": Esteve-coll. | |
| 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 |
coll | 172 | coll wallpaper | 3 |
coll j ll | 27 | coll game | 3 |
coll emilio pedro | 11 | cayetano coll toste y | 3 |
cesar coll | 10 | car coll | 3 |
celia coll | 9 | coll d es oreilles | 3 |
am cardiol coll j | 6 | brevet coll des e8ges | 3 |
mad dog coll | 4 | coll nassau | 2 |
cavaille coll | 4 | alabama coll comm marshall | 2 |
aint coll it news | 4 | coll ge hazebrouck | 2 |
coll enrique lacalle | 4 | buddy coll icon | 2 |
coll doll | 4 | am coll j surg | 2 |
coll outao.qc.ca | 3 | coll isle | 2 |
coll crimp o | 2 | ||
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |||
| Language | Translations for "COLL"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Manx | Ellan Colley (Isle of Coll). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | ollcay колледж (clg, Coll College, college). (various references) Colla. (various references) Колекція, Зібрання, Збірка (Miscellanea), Стригти. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
| Language | Period | Translations |
| Latin | 500 BCE-Modern | Collegium. (various references) |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | ||
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "COLL": collaborate, collaborated, collaborates, collaborating, collaboration, collaborationism, collaborationisms, collaborationist, collaborationists, collaborations, collaborative, collaboratively, collaboratives, collaborator, collaborators, collage, collaged, collagen, collagenase, collagenases, collagenous, collagens, collages, collaging, collagist, collagists, collapse, collapsed, collapses, collapsibilities, collapsibility, collapsible, collapsing, collar, collarbone, collarbones, collard, collards, collared, collaret, collarets, collaring, collarless, collars, collate, collated, collateral, collateralities, collaterality, collateralize, collateralized. (additional references) | |
Words containing "COLL": anticollision, caracolled, caracolling, decollate, decollated, decollates, decollating, decollation, decollations, decolletage, decolletages, decollete, decolletes, hydrocolloid, hydrocolloidal, hydrocolloids, intercollegiate, misrecollection, misrecollections, noncollector, noncollectors, noncollege, noncolleges, noncollegiate, noncollinear, postcollege, postcolleges, postcollegiate, precollege, precolleges, precollegiate, protocolled, protocolling, recollect, recollected, recollecting, recollection, recollections, recollects, scollop, scolloped, scolloping, scollops, subcollection, subcollections, subcollege, subcolleges, subcollegiate, supercollider, supercolliders, torticollis. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| Words ending with "oll": Noll, Woll. (additional references) |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "c-l-l-o" | |
-1 letter: col. | |
-2 letters: lo. | |
| Words containing the letters "c-l-l-o" | |
+1 letter: cello, colly, local. | |
+2 letters: callow, cellos, cholla, clonal, coldly, collar, collet, collie, collop, coolly, glycol, locale, locals, locule, loculi, ocelli, scroll. | |
+3 letters: alcohol, bullock, callboy, callose, callous, calomel, challot, chloral, chollas, cloacal, closely, collage, collard, collars, collate, collect, colleen, college, collets, collide, collied, collier, collies, collins, colloid, collops, collude, colonel, columel, corolla, cowbell, criollo, cullion, elflock, focally, glycols, hillock, illogic, killock, locales, locally, lochial, locular, loculed, locules, loculus, logical, mollusc, mullock, ocellar, ocellus, pollack, pollock, rollick, scallop, scollop, scrolls, vocally. | |
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