Index of English words, starting with "co"

(1) - Collaborator (n.) An associate in labor, especially in literary or scientific labor.

(1) - Collagen (n.) The chemical basis of ordinary connective tissue, as of tendons or sinews and of bone. On being boiled in water it becomes gelatin or glue.

(1) - Collapse (n.) Extreme depression or sudden failing of all the vital powers, as the result of disease, injury, or nervous disturbance.
(2) - Collapse (n.) A sudden and complete failure; an utter failure of any kind; a breakdown.
(3) - Collapse (n.) A falling together suddenly, as of the sides of a hollow vessel.
(4) - Collapse (v. i.) To fail suddenly and completely, like something hollow when subject to too much pressure; to undergo a collapse; as, Maximilian's government collapsed soon after the French army left Mexico; many financial projects collapse after attaining some success and importance.
(5) - Collapse (v. i.) To fall together suddenly, as the sides of a hollow vessel; to close by falling or shrinking together; to have the sides or parts of (a thing) fall in together, or be crushed in together; as, a flue in the boiler of a steam engine sometimes collapses.