Crossword clues for colossus
colossus
- Someone or something that is abnormally large and powerful
- A person of exceptional importance and reputation
- Gigantic statue
- Rhodes wonder
- VIP stirs souls in Greek island
- Gigantic statue that once stood at the Rhodes harbour entrance
- Gigantic figure
- Company with deficit states large figure
- Abnormally powerful person
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Colossus \Co*los"sus\, n.; pl. L. Colossi, E. Colossuses.
-
A statue of gigantic size. The name was especially applied to certain famous statues in antiquity, as the Colossus of Nero in Rome, the Colossus of Apollo at Rhodes.
He doth bestride the narrow world Like a colossus.
--Shak.Note: There is no authority for the statement that the legs of the Colossus at Rhodes extended over the mouth of the harbor.
--Dr. Wm. Smith. Any man or beast of gigantic size. [1913 Webster] ||
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
"gigantic statue," late 14c., from Latin colossus "a statue larger than life," from Greek kolossos "gigantic statue," which is of unknown origin, used by Herodotus of giant Egyptian statues, and used by Romans of the bronze Apollo at the entrance to the harbor of Rhodes. Figurative sense of "any thing of awesome greatness or vastness" is from 1794.
Wiktionary
n. 1 A statue of gigantic size. The name was especially applied to certain famous statues in antiquity, as the Colossus of Nero in Rome and the Colossus of Rhodes, one of the Seven Wonders of the Ancient World. 2 Any creature or thing of gigantic size. 3 (label en figurative) Somebody or something very greatly admired and respected.
WordNet
Wikipedia
Colossus, Colossos, or Colossi may refer to:
Colossus (Piotr Nikolaievitch Rasputin) is a fictional superhero appearing in American comic books published by Marvel Comics, commonly associated with the X-Men. Created by writer Len Wein and illustrator Dave Cockrum, he first appeared in Giant-Size X-Men #1 (May 1975). A Russian mutant, the character is a member of the X-Men, and he is by far the physically strongest member of the team, being able to transform into a strong metallic form. Even without his powers he holds a physically imposing figure standing at . Throughout the series, he has been portrayed as a quiet, honest, and innocent man. He has had a fairly consistent presence in X-Men-related comic books since his debut. A talented artist, he only reluctantly agrees to use his powers in combat, feeling that it is his responsibility to use his abilities for the betterment of human and mutant-kind.
Actor Daniel Cudmore has portrayed Colossus in X2, X-Men: The Last Stand, and X-Men: Days of Future Past, and Stefan Kapičić provided the voice of a CGI Colossus in the 2016 film Deadpool. Wizard ranked Colossus at 184 on the Top 200 Comic Book Characters of All Time. In 2006, IGN placed Colossus in the 10th spot of their list of "The Top 25 X-Men". In 2013, ComicsAlliance ranked Colossus as #22 on their list of the "50 Sexiest Male Characters in Comics".
- Redirect Colossus: The Forbin Project
Colossus ( 1966) is a science fiction novel by British author Dennis Feltham Jones (as D. F. Jones), about super-computers assuming control of man. Two sequels, The Fall of Colossus (1974) and Colossus and the Crab (1977) continued the story. Colossus was adapted cinematically as Colossus: The Forbin Project (1970).
Colossus is an album by Scorn, originally released in 1993 on Earache Records.
Colossus: The Collected Science Fiction of Donald Wandrei is a collection of science fiction short stories by author Donald Wandrei. It was released in 1989 by Fedogan & Bremer in an edition of 1,000 copies.Many of the stories originally appeared in the magazines Weird Tales, Astounding Stories, The Minnesota Quarterly, Thrilling Wonder Stories and Leaves.
Colossus is the fourth and final studio album by the American alternative rock band Walt Mink, released in June 1997.
Colossus are an American Christian metal band who primarily play metalcore. They come from Sioux Falls, South Dakota. The band started making music in 2010. Facedown Records signed the band. Time & Eternal is the first work by Colossus. Their second work is Badlands.
Colossus is the first EP by Australian progressive rock band Caligula’s Horse. It was released independently in September 2011 to showcase their recently expanded lineup after the positive online response for their debut album Moments from Ephemeral City, which was originally intended to be a one-off project between vocalist Jim Grey and guitarist Sam Vallen.
Colossus is a roller coaster at Thorpe Park in Surrey, England, and the park's first major attraction. It was built by Swiss manufacturers Intamin and designed by Werner Stengel as an adaptation of Monte Makaya in Brazil. Tussauds designer John Wardley adapted the project to include an extra two inversions as well as reducing its height. Colossus was the world's first roller coaster with ten inversions; an exact replica, called the 10 Inversion Roller Coaster, was later built at Chimelong Paradise in Guangzhou, China. It retained its title of having the most inversions on any other roller coaster in the world until The Smiler at Alton Towers took the record in 2013.
Manufacturers Intamin used a similar train style to their Hyper Coaster models which are exposed by removing the sides of the train. This caused problems as riders could lift their legs outside of the train whilst it was in motion. For a brief period in 2002 and 2003 the ride was equipped with metal bars on the sides of the train to prevent this. During 2003 the trains were fitted with new style restraints to prevent riders from doing this and the metal plates were removed.
The roller coaster is located in the Lost City area, in the south-east of the park. The ride is formed of a vertical loop, a cobra roll, two corkscrews and five heartline rolls. The ride's rough theme is the ruins of a recently unearthed Atlantean civilisation. The music for the ride and surrounding area was composed by Ian Habgood and is shared with the roller coaster Colossos in Heide Park, Germany. During planning and construction Colossus was known as Project Odyssey; both names allude to Ancient Greece, albeit in different ways. In 2009, the ride's lift hill chain was replaced and station area was cleaned of rust. In 2010, Colossus's signs and station were repainted.
Colossus is a Ferris wheel at the Six Flags St. Louis theme park in Eureka, Missouri, United States. It is in diameter, weighs , and has a maximum capacity of 320 people.
Colossus was originally debuted at the 1984 New Orleans World's Fair. It and the other rides there were operated by Six Flags, Inc. It cost $2.50 per passenger at that point. It turned at a rate of 1½ revolutions per minute which equates to .
Colossus stands where the Pet-A-Pet petting zoo used to be. That was removed in 1985 to make room for the addition of Colossus in the 1986 season.
As of 1992 Colossus was lit by 2200 lights which displayed a 24-pattern performance with a starburst finale. During the months that the park was closed they displayed a giant clock face which was visible to those passing on nearby Interstate 44.
On June 17, 2009 there was a power outage at the park and as a result several guests had to be manually released from certain rides. Colossus was the most difficult one for the employees to release riders from, because, with no power, it had to be manually cranked to get the passengers to the ground, which took about 75 minutes.
Usage examples of "colossus".
Pale pink in color, the benthic colossus had surfaced less than a mile from the ship.
Commanded and paid by the IP to isolate himself, Dagenham had abandoned research and built the colossus of Dagenham Couriers, Inc.
There you stand, a hundred feet above the silent decks, striding along the deep, as if the masts were gigantic stilts, while beneath you and between your legs, as it were, swim the hugest monsters of the sea, even as ships once sailed between the boots of the famous Colossus at old Rhodes.
Not only did she take the evening meal in company, she commanded Colossus to arm her into the sitting room where she sat enthroned on the only Louis XIV chair of which Beau Repos was possessed.
Highway, a broad, rutted, well-travelled way curving south through Fabeque like a slow dusty river, through the villages and hamlets, through ancient, sleepy towns such as Gram mantes, Fleuvine and Beronde, before crossing the Niay Rise into Sevagne Province, a great lush expanse of lake-riddled farmland, at whose southernmost point the capital city of Sherreen straddled the water of the River Vir like a colossus.
But the colossus was made to lift not little glasses or pebbles but multiton pipes, beams, and boulders.
He caused temples to be erected in most of the great cities of the kingdom, he added to the temple of Ptah at Memphis, and erected immense colossi in front of its pylons in memory of his deliverance from the fire.
And the vast majority of net users were residents of the two North-American colossi, chiefly the USA.
To a certain extent I was acquainted with the ways of the Colossus which was crushing me under foot, but there are things on earth which one can only truly understand by experience.
Then, obeying a radio signal, the immersed colossus pushed its Dirac emitter above the surface of the water.
Nevertheless, the steel colossus floated softly through the night, as if carried by gently rolling waves.
After all installations had been checked, the armored colossus slid down the ramp effortlessly and passed through the openings in the energy dome which had been marked by blue lights.
Meanwhile the Cyclops had come so close to the Invincible that they could recognize the colossus as soon as the second probe had gained a little altitude.
Banbury Valley they flew north and east aboard the Shark, a thundering colossus of black armor-plated weaponry.
By slow degrees this amiable weakness of the Colossus became known to the business world, which exulted greatly in the knowledge.