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這個拼法是2個不同的字· 2 words spelled “col”

  1. 1
    col · dip between mountain peaks鞍部；山坳Picture the top edge of a mountain range as one long line, with two peaks standing on it.
  2. 2
    col (short for column/colour)column 或 color 的縮寫This col is not a word that grew; it is a word that got cut.
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col · dip between mountain peaks

noun

Picture the top edge of a mountain range as one long line, with two peaks standing on it. Between the peaks the line sags down, the way your shoulders leave a dip for your neck. That sagging place is a col. Everything the word does follows from it being the low point: paths cross there, walkers rest there, and the wind pours through from the valley on the far side.

可以想成：把山的稜線看成一條長線，線上立著兩座高峰。兩峰之間，線會往下凹一塊，就像兩邊肩膀中間留給脖子的位置。那個凹口就是 col，台灣登山的人叫它「鞍部」。這個字的用法都從「它是最低點」長出來：路從那裡翻過去，隊伍在那裡休息，風也從另一邊的山谷灌進來。

From the word’s history

The source records the word as borrowed from French col, from Latin collum, meaning neck. The dip between two peaks sits like a neck between two shoulders, which matches the modern picture.

來源記載這個字借自法文 col，再往前是拉丁文 collum，意思是「脖子」。兩座山峰之間那塊凹下去的地方，正好像兩邊肩膀中間的脖子，所以這條古老的線索跟今天的畫面完全對得上。

Wiktionary, "col" (etymology 1)

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col (short for column/colour)

noun

This col is not a word that grew; it is a word that got cut. Picture a narrow table heading with no room for the whole of column or colour, so the writer keeps the first three letters and stops. That is all it is: a long word wearing short clothes, living on paper and on screens. When someone reads the line out loud, the full word comes back.

這個 col 不是自己長出來的字，而是被砍短的字。畫面是一個很窄的表格標題，寫不下 column 或 colour 一整個字，所以只留開頭三個字母就停住。它就只是這樣：一個長字穿上短衣服，活在紙上和螢幕上。等有人把那一行念出來，完整的字又會回來。

容易混在一起的字在訂閱裡。容易混在一起的字需要訂閱帳號。

cols

意思相近

saddlepassgapnotch

用法接近

ridgevalleymountain pass

意思相反

peaksummit

同家族的字

cols

意思相近

columncolourcolor

原始詞典資料9 筆記錄

以下是外部詞典記錄的用法，摘錄並精簡格式，我們還沒有寫成教學內容。上面的說明才是我們自己寫的；有些用法可能上面已經講過了。

Colname

  • 1

    A diminutive of the male given name Colin.

colnoun詞源 1/kɒl/

  • 1

    geographynatural-sciencesA dip on a mountain ridge between two peaks.

    • We spent half an hour on the summit before returning to our camp, where we stuffed the frozen tent and all the gear into our packs and started the long descent of the southwest ridge to rejoin Harish and others who were still encamped on the col at the foot of it.
    • I recall one specific trip when we climbed to Madison Hut which is located in the col between Mount Madison and Mount Jefferson.
  • 2

    climatologymeteorologynatural-sciencesA pressure region between two anticyclones and two low-pressure regions.

這個拼法也被記錄為下列字的變化形：

摘錄自 英文維基詞典 English Wiktionary，已精簡格式；依 CC BY-SA 4.0 授權使用，改動後的內容同樣以此授權提供。