column
Architecture.
a rigid, relatively slender, upright support, composed of relatively few pieces.
a decorative pillar, most often composed of stone and typically having a cylindrical or polygonal shaft with a capital and usually a base.
any columnlike object, mass, or formation: a column of smoke.
a vertical row or list: Add this column of figures.
a vertical arrangement on a page of horizontal lines of type, usually typographically justified: There are three columns on this page.
a regular feature or series of articles in a newspaper, magazine, or the like, usually having a readily identifiable heading and the byline of the writer or editor, that reports or comments upon a particular field of interest, as politics, theater, or etiquette, or which may contain letters from readers, answers to readers' queries, etc.
a long, narrow formation of troops in which there are more members in line in the direction of movement than at right angles to the direction (distinguished from line1 def. 35).
a formation of ships in single file.
Botany. a columnlike structure in an orchid flower, composed of the united stamens and style.
Origin of column
1synonym study For column
Other words from column
- columned [kol-uhmd], /ˈkɒl əmd/, col·um·nat·ed [kol-uhm-ney-tid], /ˈkɒl əmˌneɪ tɪd/, adjective
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How to use column in a sentence
In the figure below, the column on the left is a list of all pages.
In a recent newspaper column, Josefowitz wrote about the pandemic affording free time to tackle procrastinated tasks.
No Visitors Leading to Despair and Isolation in Senior Care Homes | Jared Whitlock | July 28, 2020 | Voice of San DiegoWhen placed on the column, each ring slid down to its correct position, if possible.
A pressure sensor on a tag attached to a shark’s fin recorded the animal’s swimming depth at one-second intervals as the shark moved up and down in the water column.
At the end of my five-day experiment, I created a spreadsheet of my results, with each group getting its own column.
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Sometimes a column has the economy and rhythm of a short story.
Later that night, that same black-and-red banner would be seen again—in the column of marchers chanting for dead cops.
He branded it a fifth-column invasion into popular culture, normalizing radical, even communist ambitions.
Glenn Beck Is Now Selling Hipster Clothes. Really. | Ana Marie Cox | December 20, 2014 | THE DAILY BEASTMy editor called and said, “Do a column on this Lena Dunham flap!”
Up to a Point: They Made Me Write About Lena Dunham | P. J. O’Rourke | December 13, 2014 | THE DAILY BEASTHis sign was the last one people saw as the column of marchers passed them, it read, “Am I next?”
‘They Let Him Off?’ Scenes from NYC in Disbelief | Jacob Siegel | December 4, 2014 | THE DAILY BEASTMy two eyes haven't quite the same focal length and this often puts me out of the straight with a column of figures.
The Salvaging Of Civilisation | H. G. (Herbert George) WellsThe very first chords which Mademoiselle Reisz struck upon the piano sent a keen tremor down Mrs. Pontellier's spinal column.
The Awakening and Selected Short Stories | Kate ChopinHe leaned against that same stone column, thinking, searching in his mind, feeling acutely.
The Wave | Algernon BlackwoodTrack of the count may be kept by placing a mark for each leukocyte in its appropriate column, ruled upon paper.
A Manual of Clinical Diagnosis | James Campbell ToddThe last thing—against the skyline—a little column of French soldiers of the line charging back upwards towards the lost redoubt.
Gallipoli Diary, Volume I | Ian Hamilton
British Dictionary definitions for column
/ (ˈkɒləm) /
an upright post or pillar usually having a cylindrical shaft, a base, and a capital
a form or structure in the shape of a column: a column of air
a monument
a row, line, or file, as of people in a queue
military a narrow formation in which individuals or units follow one behind the other
journalism
any of two or more vertical sections of type on a printed page, esp on a newspaper page
a regular article or feature in a paper: the fashion column
a vertical array of numbers or mathematical terms
botany a long structure in a flower, such as that of an orchid, consisting of the united stamens and style
anatomy zoology any elongated structure, such as a tract of grey matter in the spinal cord or the stalk of a crinoid
Origin of column
1Derived forms of column
- columnar (kəˈlʌmnə), adjective
- columned or columnated (ˈkɒləmˌneɪtɪd), adjective
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