Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun In anatomy and zoology, the neck, in the most general sense; the whole neck.
- noun The necklike prolongation of some flask-shaped infusorians, or of the choanocytes of sponges, which ends in the flagellum and is surrounded by the collar.
- noun In entomology, the upper part or collar of the prothorax of a beetle, usually called the pronotum.
- noun In botany: Same as
collar , 2 . - noun In mosses, the neck or tapering base of the capsule.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun (Anat.) A neck or cervix.
- noun (Bot.) Same as
Collar .
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun anatomy A
neck orcervix . - noun botany A
collar .
Etymologies
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Examples
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Franks collum is rubish – too many fallacies and loaded words for my time right now, but the most glaring is the regurgitation of the Downing Street Memo.
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An armoured collum of prime movers & Hummers is going to attract unwanted attention & is very picky on road quality.
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Captain Watson is a clown who measures his success by the collum inches he generates.
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His coverage of the Valery Plame affair from the Novack collum all the way to the end of the Libby trial was Immaculaet.
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If she keeps this going for 10 more minutes Lake county could come in while she is speaking and move this thing over to the Obama win collum.
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Spinal collum — rillee moar a gidelien den a rool.
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This is great, I was looking for some time for an way of showing the results in an different collum from the search box!
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Ah wil taek wun frum collum A an wun frum collum B.
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Clik awn “contactus” in teh rite hand collum an tell teh Cheezes, so yu can get proper credit for yur pritteh kittehs
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March 17, 2008 at 2:31 pm and anudda 1 in the splort collum
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fbharjo commented on the word collum
headless neck no matter what you column
January 9, 2009
fbharjo commented on the word collum
a contraction of accolade
January 9, 2009