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Colin (security Robot)
Colin may refer to: * Colin (given name) * Colin (surname) * Colin (film), ''Colin'' (film), a 2008 Cannes film festival zombie movie * Colin (horse) (1905–1932), Thoroughbred racehorse * Colin (humpback whale), a humpback whale calf abandoned north of Sydney, Australia, in August 2008 * Colin (river), a river in France * Colin (security robot), in ''Mostly Harmless'' of ''The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy'' series by Douglas Adams * Tropical Storm Colin (other) * Collin (District Electoral Area), Collin, a District Electoral Area in Belfast, Northern Ireland which is sometimes spelt "Colin" See also * Colinus * Collin (other) * Kolin (other) * Colyn {{disambiguation ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Colin (given Name)
Colin is an English-language masculine given name. It has two distinct origins: # A diminutive form of "Colle", itself an Old French short form of the name Nicolas (given name), Nicolas (Nicholas). This name, but not the anglicized Gaelic name, is also found in the spelling Collin. This name is formed by the Old French diminutive ''-in'' also found in Robin (name), Robin. # An anglicisation (linguistics), anglicisation of the Irish language, Irish given name or the Scottish Gaelic name , which both come from the Old Irish word "pup, cub". The Scottish Gaelic name is recorded in the spelling ''Colin'' from as early as the 14th century. ''MacCailean'' was a patronymic used by Clan Campbell, after Cailean Mór (died 1296). As a surname, Colin (surname), Colin can be derived from the given name, but can also be of unrelated (French) origin. The Irish patronymic gave rise to the surname ''Cullen (surname), Cullen'' (which is also the anglicization of the unrelated patronymic ). I ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Colin (surname)
Colin is a surname, variously derived including the given name ''Colin'' and the common name in French of some species of bird and fish. * Alexander Colin or Colyn (1527/29–1612), Flemish sculptor * Alexandre-Marie Colin (1798–1875), French painter of historical and genre subjects * André Colin (1910–1978), French politician * Andrew Colin (born 1936), British professor of computer science * Andrew Colin (financial analyst), Australian specialist in portfolio theory * Christie Colin (born 1982) American archer * Denis Colin (born 1956), French bass clarinettist and composer * Enrique Colin (born 1982), Mexican professional boxer * Fabrice Colin (born 1972), French author of fantasy, science fiction, and magic realism * Frédéric-Louis Colin (1835–1902), French-Canadian priest and educator * Georges Colin (1880–1945), French actor * Gerald Colin (1913–1995), Irish priest, Bishop of Grimsby, England * Grégoire Colin (born 1975), French actor, producer, screenwriter, and ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Colin (film)
''Colin'' is a 2008 British zombie film written and directed by Marc Price. After a successful run in a number of film festivals, it went on to be shown at Cannes in 2009. Applauded for its success despite its low budget, the total cost of production was reportedly £45. The director, actor and comedian Marc Price, shot ''Colin'' on a standard definition Panasonic mini-dv camcorder that he had owned for 10 years and edited the film on his home PC using Adobe Premiere 6 software which had come bundled with a video capture card he'd purchased a few years earlier. Facebook and Myspace were used to gather actors to play the zombies. Plot Injured in the arm, Colin arrives home to the house he shares with Damien only to find it empty. While cleaning his wound in the kitchen sink, he is attacked by Damien, now a zombie. He manages to "kill" Damien by stabbing him multiple times in the head with a kitchen knife, but soon afterward, dies. Now a zombie, Colin wanders the streets of Lond ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Colin (horse)
Colin (1905 – 1932) was an undefeated champion American Thoroughbred racehorse who won all his 15 races including the 1908 Belmont Stakes and was the 1907 and 1908 Horse of the Year as well as the 1907 Champion Two-Year-Old Male and 1908 Champion 3-Year-Old Male and was inducted into the National Museum of Racing and Hall of Fame. In 1907, he swept the major two-year-old stakes races including the Belmont Futurity and Champagne Stakes and was the consensus Horse of the Year. His three-year-old campaign was cut short by injury but he was still Horse of the Year based on his three wins including the Belmont Stakes. As a sire, he suffered from fertility problems but still sired multiple stakes winners. Colin was inducted into the National Museum of Racing and Hall of Fame in 1956. In the Blood-Horse magazine List of the Top 100 Racehorses of the 20th Century, he was ranked number 15. Pedigree Colin was a brown stallion with one white sock, one pastern, one partial fetlock, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Colin (humpback Whale)
The humpback whale (''Megaptera novaeangliae'') is a species of baleen whale. It is a rorqual (a member of the family Balaenopteridae) and is the only species in the genus ''Megaptera''. Adults range in length from and weigh up to . The humpback has a distinctive body shape, with long pectoral fins and tubercles on its head. It is known for breaching and other distinctive surface behaviors, making it popular with whale watchers. Males produce a complex song that typically lasts from 4 to 33 minutes. Found in oceans and seas around the world, humpback whales typically migrate between feeding areas towards the poles and breeding areas near the equator. They feed in polar waters and migrate to tropical or subtropical waters to breed and give birth. Their diet consists mostly of krill and small fish, and they usually use bubbles to catch prey. They are polygynandrous breeders, with both sexes having multiple partners. Males will follow females and fight off rivals. Mothers gi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Colin (river)
The Colin is a long river in the department of Cher in central France. It is a tributary of the Yèvre, its waters eventually reaching the sea through the river Loire. Geography The river's source is at Humbligny, where it drains La Motte d'Humbligny, the highest point in the Sancerrois region. It runs through Les Aix-d'Angillon and Sainte-Solange and joins the Yèvre at Saint-Germain-du-Puy. Communes Humbligny, Morogues, Aubinges, Les Aix-d'Angillon, Sainte-Solange, Saint-Germain-du-Puy, References Rivers of France Rivers of Centre-Val de Loire Rivers of Cher (department) {{France-river-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Colin (security Robot)
Colin may refer to: * Colin (given name) * Colin (surname) * Colin (film), ''Colin'' (film), a 2008 Cannes film festival zombie movie * Colin (horse) (1905–1932), Thoroughbred racehorse * Colin (humpback whale), a humpback whale calf abandoned north of Sydney, Australia, in August 2008 * Colin (river), a river in France * Colin (security robot), in ''Mostly Harmless'' of ''The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy'' series by Douglas Adams * Tropical Storm Colin (other) * Collin (District Electoral Area), Collin, a District Electoral Area in Belfast, Northern Ireland which is sometimes spelt "Colin" See also * Colinus * Collin (other) * Kolin (other) * Colyn {{disambiguation ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tropical Storm Colin (other)
The name Colin has been used for three tropical cyclone A tropical cyclone is a rapidly rotating storm system with a low-pressure area, a closed low-level atmospheric circulation, strong winds, and a spiral arrangement of thunderstorms that produce heavy rain and squalls. Depending on its locat ...s in the Atlantic Ocean, one in the Australian region of the South Pacific Ocean and one in the South-West Indian Ocean. In the Atlantic: * Tropical Storm Colin (2010), heavily sheared storm which moved across the Atlantic, dissipated before reaching Bermuda * Tropical Storm Colin (2016), poorly organized and weak tropical storm that made landfall in Florida causing considerable damage * Tropical Storm Colin (2022), short-lived and weak tropical storm that made landfall in South Carolina causing minimal damage In the South Pacific: * Cyclone Colin (1976), moved parallel to the eastern coast of Australia without making landfall In the South-West Indian: * Cyclone Colin (2 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Collin (District Electoral Area)
Collin is one of the ten district electoral areas (DEA) in Belfast, Northern Ireland. The district elects six members to Belfast City Council and contains the wards of Dunmurry; Ladybrook; Lagmore; Poleglass; Twinbrook and Stewartstown. ARK, accessed 24 May 2014 Collin, along with neighbouring Black Mountain and most of the Court District Electoral Area, forms the greater part of the Belfast West constituencies for the |
Belfast
Belfast (, , , ; from ) is the capital city and principal port of Northern Ireland, standing on the banks of the River Lagan and connected to the open sea through Belfast Lough and the North Channel (Great Britain and Ireland), North Channel. It is the second-largest city in Ireland (after Dublin), with an estimated population of in , and a Belfast metropolitan area, metropolitan area population of 671,559. First chartered as an English settlement in 1613, the town's early growth was driven by an influx of Scottish people, Scottish Presbyterian Church in Ireland, Presbyterians. Their descendants' disaffection with Kingdom of Ireland, Ireland's Protestant Ascendancy, Anglican establishment contributed to the Irish Rebellion of 1798, rebellion of 1798, and to the Acts of Union 1800, union with Kingdom of Great Britain, Great Britain in 1800—later regarded as a key to the town's industrial transformation. When granted City status in the United Kingdom#Northern Ireland, city s ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Northern Ireland
Northern Ireland ( ; ) is a Countries of the United Kingdom, part of the United Kingdom in the north-east of the island of Ireland. It has been #Descriptions, variously described as a country, province or region. Northern Ireland shares Republic of Ireland–United Kingdom border, an open border to the south and west with the Republic of Ireland. At the 2021 United Kingdom census, 2021 census, its population was 1,903,175, making up around 3% of the Demographics of the United Kingdom#Population, UK's population and 27% of the population on the island of Ireland#Demographics, Ireland. The Northern Ireland Assembly, established by the Northern Ireland Act 1998, holds responsibility for a range of Devolution, devolved policy matters, while other areas are reserved for the Government of the United Kingdom, UK Government. The government of Northern Ireland cooperates with the government of Ireland in several areas under the terms of the Good Friday Agreement. The Republic of Ireland ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Colinus
''Colinus'' is a genus of birds in the New World quail family, Odontophoridae. Members of the genus are commonly known as bobwhites. Taxonomy The genus ''Colinus'' was introduced in 1820 by the German naturalist Georg August Goldfuss to accommodate a single species, ''Perdrix mexicanus'', a junior synonym of ''Tetrao virginiatus'' Linnaeus, 1758, the northern bobwhite, which is the type species by monotypy. The genus name come from the Nahuatl Nahuatl ( ; ), Aztec, or Mexicano is a language or, by some definitions, a group of languages of the Uto-Aztecan language family. Varieties of Nahuatl are spoken by about Nahuas, most of whom live mainly in Central Mexico and have smaller popul ... language ''Zölin'' meaning "quail". Species The genus contains four species. Fossil species * †''Colinus eatoni'' * †''Colinus suilium'' Brodkorb 1959 * †''Colinus hibbardi'' Wetmore 1944 References Bird genera Birds of Central America Taxa named by Georg Au ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
