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Two dots that promise something good is coming next.
means A punctuation mark of two vertically stacked dots used to introduce a list, explanation, or quotation; also the largest part of the large intestine.
from From Latin colon, itself borrowed from Greek kôlon, meaning a 'limb,' 'member,' or — in rhetoric — a 'clause' or section of a sentence. Ancient grammarians used the term for a rhythmic unit of a sentence, and the mark that came to set off such units inherited the name. The anatomical 'colon' comes from a separate but identical-looking Greek word, kolon, meaning the large intestine — so the two meanings are near-twins in spelling but arrive from different doorways of the same language.
- length
- Five feet of coiled water-reclaiming tube
- job
- Squeezes liquid out before the exit
- grammar twin
- Introduces lists, quotes, and dramatic pauses
- gut tenants
- Houses trillions of bacteria, mostly friendly
- removable
- You can live without it entirely
panama canal — colón, panama is the caribbean terminus of the canal, handling millions of tons of cargo annually