Colt vs Cola - What's the difference?
colt | cola |
A young male horse.
A youthful or inexperienced person; a novice.
* 1594 , , I. ii. 38:
(nautical) A short piece of rope once used by petty officers as an instrument of punishment.
(obsolete) To horse; to get with young.
* 1610 , , II. iv. 133:
(obsolete) To befool.
* 1594 , , II. ii. 36:
To frisk or frolic like a colt; to act licentiously or wantonly.
* Spenser
The kola plant, genus Cola , famous for its nut, or one of these nuts.
A beverage or a made with kola nut flavoring, caramel and carbonated water.
(obsolete)
* 2008 , Alexandre Allauzen,
As nouns the difference between colt and cola
is that colt is a young male horse while cola is the kola plant, genus Cola, famous for its nut, or one of these nuts.As a verb colt
is to horse; to get with young.As a proper noun COLA is
comp.os.linux.advocacy (a Usenet newsgroup.colt
English
Noun
(en noun)- Ay, that's a colt indeed, for he doth nothing but / talk of his horse, and he makes it a great appropriation to / his own good parts that he can shoe him himself.
Derived terms
* colt's toothSee also
* stallion, mare, foal, filly, horselingVerb
(en verb)- Never talk on't: / She hath been colted by him.
- What a plague mean ye to colt me thus?
- They shook off their bridles and began to colt .
Anagrams
*cola
English
Etymology 1
From a (etyl) language, compare Temne kola, Mandinka kola. The beverage "Coca-Cola" was what made the term widely known.Alternative forms
* (the plant or nut) kolaNoun
See also
* (projectlink) * * (projectlink)Etymology 2
See colonNoun
(head)Review of “Mathematical Linguistics” by Andras Kornai
- In this part, the author presents a prosodic hierarchy describing syllables, moras, feet, cola and a typology for words and stress.