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"COLM" is a name that signifies or is derived from: "a dove". |
| Domain | Definition |
Aerospace | International Astronomical Union Abbreviation for Columba. See constellation. (references) |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Subject | Topic | Quote |
Human Rights | United Kingdom | While over 20 suspects were detained, only 1, Colm Murphy, was charged (for aiding and abetting the crime). (references) |
Ireland | The trial of Colm Murphy, an Irish citizen charged in connection with the 1998 bombing in Omagh, Northern Ireland, continued at year's end. (references) | |
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits. | ||
| "COLM" is generally used as a noun (proper) -- approximately 94.59% of the time. "COLM" is used about 37 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) | 94.59% | 35 | 58,339 |
| Lexical Verb (base form) | 5.41% | 2 | 245,945 |
| Total | 100.00% | 37 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| "COLM" is a name that signifies or is derived from: "a dove". | |||
| The following table summarizes names related to "COLM." | |||
| Name | Gender | Language | Related Name |
| Columbine | Female | English | Columba |
| Malcolm | Male | English | Columba |
| Colombe | Male, Female | French | Columba |
| Colm | Male | Irish | Columba |
| Colum | Male | Irish | Columba |
| Colombina | Female | Italian | Columba |
| Columbano | Male | Italian | Columba |
| Columbo | Male | Italian | Columba |
| Columba | Male | Late Roman | N/A |
| Cailean | Male | Scottish | Columba |
| Calum | Male | Scottish | Columba |
| Malcolm | Male | Scottish | Columba |
| 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 |
colm wilkinson | 46 |
colm feore | 22 |
colm meaney | 19 |
colm | 15 |
colm meany | 4 |
colm doran | 3 |
brannigan colm | 2 |
colm hogan patrick | 2 |
colm feore interview | 2 |
colm mcevoy | 2 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "c-l-m-o" | |
-1 letter: col, moc, mol. | |
-2 letters: lo, mo, om. | |
| Words containing the letters "c-l-m-o" | |
+1 letter: celom, clomb, clomp, comal, cymol, locum. | |
+2 letters: celoms, clamor, cleome, clomps, coelom, column, comely, compel, comply, copalm, cormel, cymols, holmic, locums, moloch. | |
+3 letters: armlock, calomel, camphol, cembalo, chromyl, clamors, clamour, cleomes, clomped, clonism, coelome, coeloms, columel, columns, comical, compels, compile, complex, complin, complot, copalms, cormels, coulomb, domical, domicil, embolic, hemlock, leucoma, limacon, lockram, locoism, melodic, mochila, mollusc, molochs, monocle, mucosal, mullock, oilcamp, osculum, polemic, telomic, welcome. | |
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)43 4F 4C 4D |
| Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)
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| American Sign Language (origins from 1620-1817 in Italy and, especially, France) (references)
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| Semaphore (1791, in France) (references)
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| Braille (1829, in France) (references)
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Morse Code (1836) (references)-.-. --- .-.. -- |
| Dancing Men (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, 1903) (references)
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01000011 01001111 01001100 01001101 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)C O L M |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0043 004F 004C 004D |
| British Sign Language (Fingerspelling, BSL; 1992, British Deaf Association Dictionary of British Sign Language) (references)
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Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)37494647 |
| 1. Definition 2. Quotations: Non-fiction 3. Usage Frequency 4. Names: Derived from | 5. Expressions: Internet 6. Anagrams 7. Orthography 8. Bibliography |
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