Colon vs Codon - What's the difference?
colon | codon |
(grammar) The punctuation mark " ".
* 2005 , William Strunk Jr. and E.B. White, The Elements of Style , Penguin Press, page 15:
(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.
(anatomy) Part of the large intestine; the final segment of the digestive system, after (distal to) the ileum and before (proximal to) the anus
(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:
(biochemistry) A sequence of three adjacent nucleotides, which encode for a specific amino acid during protein synthesis, or translation. Three special codons, called "stop codons," signal protein synthesis to terminate.
As a proper noun colon
is .As a noun codon is
codon.colon
English
Etymology 1
From (etyl) .Noun
(en-noun)- A colon tells the reader that what follows is closely related to the preceding clause.
See also
* * (punctuation)Etymology 2
From (etyl) .Noun
(en-noun)Synonyms
* (final segment of digestive system) large bowelHolonyms
* (segment of digestive system) large intestineDerived terms
* colectomy * colic * colitis * colonic * colonitis * colostomy * colonic irrigationSee also
* bowel * large intestine * rectumEtymology 3
From (etyl) colon.Noun
(en noun)- 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 aglossary of classical rhetorical terms. * * *
