column
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Topics: architecture
biology
botany
chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
Etymology: From Middle English columne, columpne, columpe, borrowed from Old French columne, from Latin columna (“a column, pillar, post”), originally a collateral form of columen, contraction culmen (“a pillar, top, crown, summit”). Akin to Latin collis (“a hill”), celsus (“high”), probably to Ancient Greek κολοφών (kolophṓn, “top, summit”).
Inflected forms:
form: columns
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A solid upright structure designed usually to support a larger structure above it, such as a roof or horizontal beam, but sometimes for decoration.
pos: noun
gloss: A vertical line of entries in a table, usually read from top to bottom.
pos: noun
gloss: A body of troops or army vehicles, usually strung out along a road.
pos: noun
gloss: A body of text meant to be read line by line, especially in printed material that has multiple adjacent such on a single page.
pos: noun
examples: It was too hard to read the text across the whole page, so I split it into two columns.
gloss: A unit of width, especially of advertisements, in a periodical, equivalent to the width of a usual column of text.
pos: noun
examples: Each column inch costs $300 a week; this ad is four columns by three inches, so will run $3600 a week.
gloss: A recurring feature in a periodical, especially an opinion piece, especially by a single author or small rotating group of authors, or on a single theme.
pos: noun
tags: broadly
examples: His initial foray into print media was as the author of a weekly column in his elementary-school newspaper.
I have always argued that despite my opposition to rail privatisation, I should be grateful that John Major won the 1992 election on a platform to sell off the railways, as otherwise my column would have disappeared given the paucity of things to write about.
gloss: Something having similar vertical form or structure to the things mentioned above, such as a spinal column.
pos: noun
examples: The desert storm was riding in its strength; the travellers lay beneath the mastery of the fell simoom. Whirling wreaths and columns of burning wind, rushed around and over them.
gloss: The gynostemium
pos: noun
gloss: An instrument used to separate the different components of a liquid or to purify chemical compounds.
pos: noun
Antonyms: row
Derived words: advice column
agony column
a little from column A and a little from column B
balloon column
clustered column
columnal
columnar
column density
column echelon form
columned
columniferous
columniform
column inch
columnist
columnization
columnize
columnless
columnlike
column of Türck
column shifter
column space
column still
column stinkhorn
column vector
column-wise
columnwise
control column
cortical column
cybercolumn
dodge the column
encolumned
engaged column
eruption column
fifth column
flying column
fractionating column
Hathor column
hypercolumn
immunocolumn
intercolumn
intracolumn
letter column
macrocolumn
microcolumn
minicolumn
Morris column
multicolumn
multiple-column
nanocolumn
personal column
positive column
postcolumn
precolumn
pseudo-column
pseudocolumn
semicolumn
semi-column
sixth column
social column
society column
steering column
subcolumn
supercolumn
Taylor column
Türck's column
vertebral column
water column
wide column store
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