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bowels | colon |

As nouns the difference between bowels and colon

is that bowels is plural of lang=en while colon is the punctuation mark ":".

As a proper noun Colon is

{{surname|lang=en}.

bowels

English

Noun

(head)
  • (plural only) The deepest or innermost part.
    • down in the bowels of the Earth
  • (plural only) The concept or quality that defines something at its very core.
    • the project's bowels
  • (plural only) The intestines.

    • Synonyms

    * (deepest or innermost part) centre/center, core, heart * (intestines) entrails, guts, intestines

    Anagrams

    * *

    colon

    English

    Etymology 1

    From (etyl) .

    Noun

    (en-noun)
  • (grammar) The punctuation mark " ".
  • * 2005 , William Strunk Jr. and E.B. White, The Elements of Style , Penguin Press, page 15:
    • A colon tells the reader that what follows is closely related to the preceding clause.
  • (rare) The triangular colon (especially in context of not being able to type the actual triangular colon).
  • (rhetoric) A rhetorical figure consisting of a clause which is grammatically, but not logically, complete.

    • See also

    * * (punctuation)

    Etymology 2

    From (etyl) .

    Noun

    (en-noun)
  • (anatomy) Part of the large intestine; the final segment of the digestive system, after (distal to) the ileum and before (proximal to) the anus
    • Synonyms
    * (final segment of digestive system) large bowel
    Holonyms
    * (segment of digestive system) large intestine
    Derived terms
    * colectomy * colic * colitis * colonic * colonitis * colostomy * colonic irrigation

    See also

    * bowel * large intestine * rectum

    Etymology 3

    From (etyl) colon.

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • (obsolete) A husbandman.
  • A European colonial settler, especially in a French colony.
  • * 1977 , (Alistair Horne), A Savage War of Peace , New York Review Books 2006, p. 28:
    • 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.

    External links

    * http://humanities.byu.edu/rhetoric/Figures/C/colon.htm Part of a glossary of classical rhetorical terms. * * *

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