The Collaborative International Dictionary
Collin \Col"lin\, n. [Gr. ko`lla glue.] A very pure form of gelatin.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1882, from Greek kolla "glue" + chemical suffix -in (2).
Wiktionary
n. A very pure form of gelatin.
Gazetteer
Housing Units (2000): 194892
Land area (2000): 847.557094 sq. miles (2195.162704 sq. km)
Water area (2000): 38.289415 sq. miles (99.169125 sq. km)
Total area (2000): 885.846509 sq. miles (2294.331829 sq. km)
Located within: Texas (TX), FIPS 48
Location: 33.129610 N, 96.646461 W
Headwords:
Collin, TX
Collin County
Collin County, TX
Wikipedia
Collin may refer to:
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. 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 Northern Ireland Assembly and UK Parliament.
The DEA was created for the 2014 local elections, combining parts of the Upper Falls District Electoral Area, which had existed since 1985, with parts of the abolished Lisburn City Council.
Usage examples of "collin".
As Collins and Jegalian point out, the annotated human genome will have profound effects on our society as well as on our science.
If he could reach 10 cents, the gene sequencers could tackle the mouse as well, something Collins wants to do because comparisons would shed light on how the genome is organized.
I had worked with cattle all the time, and had made one trip over the trail from Collin County to Abilene, Kansas.
Dan Collins and the one other staff officer of the NATO-Europe Plans and Policy Branch, Division of Politico-Military Policy, Directorate of Plans, Policy, and Operations, Office of the Chief of Naval Operations or code OP-614 for short.
At thirty-seven, Dan Collins was beginning to show the lines and traces of his career as a line officer in the surface-ship Navy.
He looked around again, as if to see who might be watching, then turned back to Collins, ignoring Grace now.
But the public team immediately cried foul, as Collins noted that Celera fell far short of its original genome-sequencing goals.
In 1993, after turning down the invitation six months earlier, Collins left Michigan to become director of what is now the National Human Genome Research Institute.
Testing for genes predisposed to multiple endocrine neoplasia type 1 and, possibly, breast and ovarian cancer may in time save lives, Collins judges.
But for most of the diseases to which Collins has made important contributions, the only intervention at present is abortion of an affected fetus.
Fletcher, former director of the Center for Biomedical Ethics of the University of Virginia and an Episcopalian minister before he left the church, faults Collins for not pushing to remove the current ban on using federal funds for human embryo research.
After Collins confronted him with a dossier of evidence, the student made a full confession.
So far a few hundred of people who are at risk of future illness because of their genetic makeup are known to have lost jobs or insurance, Collins states.
Francis Collins, director of the National Human Research Institute at the NIH.
Theosophical University Press Online Edition Light on the Path By Mabel Collins A TREATISE WRITTEN FOR THE PERSONAL USE OF THOSE WHO ARE IGNORANT OF THE EASTERN WISDOM, AND WHO DESIRE TO ENTER WITHIN ITS INFLUENCE Written down by M.