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-clam, clams, clammed, clamming.intransitive verbs
to hunt for clams; clams & oysters
clam.noun,.plural.clams
various types of marine and freshwater mollusks, many of which are edible
clam up.phrasal verb
to refuse to talk

colossus.noun,.plural.colosi
a colossus is an extremely large statue (India has the largest statue in the world)

Colossus of Rhodes
a giant statue of Greek god Apollo long ago now in ruins, destroyed by an earthquake; it was built to guard the entrance to the harbor on the island of Rhodes and was one of the Seven Wonders of the World in 224 B.C.E.

Colossus (computer) from Free Online Dictionary of Computing (FOLDOC)
The Colossus and Colossus Mark II computers used by Alan Turing at Bletchley Park, UK during the Second World War to crack the 'Tunny' cipher produced by the Lorenz SZ 40 and SZ 42 machines. 
   Colossus was a semi-fixed-program (vacuum tube) calculator, unlike its near-contemporary, the freely programmable Z3).
   Breaking the enemy's code, Glenn Zorpette, IEEE Spectrum, September 1987, pp. 47-51. The computer was in the film Colossus: The Forbin Project.
   Forbin is the designer of an incredibly sophisticated computer that will run all of America's nuclear defences. Shortly after being turned on, it detects the existence of Goliath, the Soviet counterpart, previously unknown to US Planners. Both computers insist that they be linked and after taking safeguards to preserve confidential material, each side agrees to allow it.  As soon as the link is established the two become a new super computer and threaten the world with the immediate launch of nuclear weapons if they are detached. Colossus begins to give its plans for the management of the world under its guidance. Forbin and the other scientists form a technological resistance to Colossus which must operate underground.

See The Internet Movie Database 07-28-2002
http://www.msstate.edu/M/title-exact?Colossus:%20The%20Forbin%20Project

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