colt

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If you buy a Colt, you're stuck buying Colt parts forever.

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Quick take

A young male horse.

Meaning at a glance

The clearest senses and uses of colt gathered in one view.

noun

A young male horse.

noun

A young crane (bird).

noun

A revolver (gun) (from Colt's Manufacturing Company), associated especially but not exclusively with the American Wild West.

Definitions

Core meanings and parts of speech for colt.

noun

A young male horse.

noun

A young crane (bird).

noun

A revolver (gun) (from Colt's Manufacturing Company), associated especially but not exclusively with the American Wild West.

noun

A surname originating as an occupation.

Example sentences

If you buy a Colt, you're stuck buying Colt parts forever.

For those are are totally new to Flatbuffers, here is a good video by Colt from Google.

Sort=5 (on the first page), ranging in price from $10K to $35K for an unfired Colt AR-15.

So Colt came up with the propitiatory M4 and lo and behold, the Army switched to it.

Patents were originally on the specific mechanical system (like the Colt revolver) or chemical composition.

The only reason Colt / Armalite isn't in the same position is probably because our military is way more active than Russia's.

I can't think of any others, but a $60 Colt M1911 is indeed a hell of a bargain.

I used to have a Piper Colt parked at San Carlos (CA) that had a 50kt stall.

It's not just our military - dozens of countries import the M-16 and it's variants from Colt or manufacturers who've licensed the IP.

The applied stuff tends to use netlib, gams, gsl, colt, apache math...mostly a lot of gsl these days...again no CT there.

Flintlocks were still widespread when the Colt revolver was invented.

God made men Sam Colt made them equal Hyperbole, but I love it.

Quote examples

Those aren't really "US Army" gun sights, as in the stock iron sights on the M16 and M4 rifles produced to government specifications by Colt, or now FNH since Colt has lost all their contracts.

"Abe Lincoln may have freed all men, but Sam Colt made them equal."

While i am not much of a gun person, i find it "hilarious" that Smith and Weston was sitting on refinements for Colts revolver for 20 years (the duration of the Colt patent) before going into production.

Then again, and echoing all of our comments on the completely screwed up procurement system, the failures to stop he cited would be less common with 20 inch barrel M16s instead of "Made By Colt" 14.5 inch barrel M4s.

Proper noun examples

Ooops, I wasn't clear, the lower prices were for guns that I'm sure have been fired, the $35K was for an unfired Colt.

Or, when I was at TripAdvisor, we (not me originally, though I inherited it) greatly improved typeahead performance by dropping the built-in collections classes (which used boxed primitives, because lolbrokengenerics) in favor of Trove (or Colt, I can't remember) and the reified primitive types.