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Definition of 'column'

Random House Webster's College Dictionary

1. (n.) column
a rigid, slender upright support composed of relatively few pieces.

2.  column
a decorative pillar, often of stone, typically having a cylindrical or polygonal shaft with a capital and usu. a base.

3.  column
any columnlike object, mass, or formation:
a column of smoke.

4.  column
a vertical row or list:
Add this column of figures.

5.  column
a vertical arrangement on a page of horizontal lines of type, usu. typographically justified:
There are two columns on this page.

6.  column
an article constituting a regular feature of a newspaper or magazine, and usu. reporting or commenting on political or social affairs, the arts, etc.

7.  column
a long, narrow file of troops

8.  column
a formation of ships in single file.

Etymology: (1400–50; late ME colompne, columne (< AF) < L columna, akin to columen peak; cf. hill)

Definition of 'column'

Princeton's WordNet

1. (noun) column
a line of units following one after another

2. (noun) column, chromatography column
a vertical glass tube used in column chromatography; a mixture is poured in the top and washed through a stationary substance where components of the mixture are adsorbed selectively to form colored bands

3. (noun) column
a vertical array of numbers or other information
"he added a column of numbers"

4. (noun) column, tower, pillar
anything that approximates the shape of a column or tower
"the test tube held a column of white powder"; "a tower of dust rose above the horizon"; "a thin pillar of smoke betrayed their campsite"

5. (noun) column, editorial, newspaper column
an article giving opinions or perspectives

6. (noun) column, pillar
a vertical cylindrical structure standing alone and not supporting anything (such as a monument)

7. (noun) column, pillar
(architecture) a tall vertical cylindrical structure standing upright and used to support a structure

8. (noun) column
a page or text that is vertically divided
"the newspaper devoted several columns to the subject"; "the bookkeeper used pages that were divided into columns"

9. (noun) column
any tubular or pillar-like supporting structure in the body

Definition of 'column'

Kernerman English Learner’s Dictionary

1. (noun) column
a stone post supporting a building
decorated columns

2.  column
a vertical section of a page in a newspaper, dictionary, etc.
at the top of the second column

3.  column
writing by a journalist on a particular subject, which appears regularly in a publication
the sports column in the newspaper; in her opinion column

4.  column
a long line of people or things
a column of numbers on a page; a column of blue smoke; a column of refugees moving southward

Definition of 'column'

Webster Dictionary

1. (noun) column
a kind of pillar; a cylindrical or polygonal support for a roof, ceiling, statue, etc., somewhat ornamented, and usually composed of base, shaft, and capital. See Order

2. (noun) column
anything resembling, in form or position, a column in architecture; an upright body or mass; a shaft or obelisk; as, a column of air, of water, of mercury, etc.; the Column Vendome; the spinal column

3. (noun) column
a body of troops formed in ranks, one behind the other; -- contradistinguished from line. Compare Ploy, and Deploy

4. (noun) column
a small army

5. (noun) column
a number of ships so arranged as to follow one another in single or double file or in squadrons; -- in distinction from "line", where they are side by side

6. (noun) column
a perpendicular set of lines, not extending across the page, and separated from other matter by a rule or blank space; as, a column in a newspaper

7. (noun) column
a perpendicular line of figures

8. (noun) column
the body formed by the union of the stamens in the Mallow family, or of the stamens and pistil in the orchids

Translation of 'column'

Kernerman English Multilingual Dictionary

Sense: a stone or wooden pillar used to support or adorn a building the carved columns in the temple.
Afrikaans: pilaar	Arabic: عَمود	Bulgarian: арх. колона
Brazilian: coluna	Czech: sloup	German: die Säule
Danish: søjle	Greek: στήλη, κολόνα	Spanish: columna
Estonian: sammas	Farsi: ستون	Finnish: pylväs
French: colonne	Hebrew: עַמוּד	Hindi: स्तम्भ
Croatian: kolona	Hungarian: oszlop	Indonesian: tiang
Icelandic: súla	Italian: colonna	Japanese: 柱
Korean: 기둥	Lithuanian: kolona	Latvian: kolonna
Malay: tiang	Dutch: zuil	Norwegian: søyle
Polish: kolumna	Persian: ستون	Pashto: ټه، ستن (ستون) (چه چت ته
Portuguese: coluna	Romanian: coloană	Russian: колонна
Slovak: stĺp	Slovenian: steber	Serbian: stub
Swedish: pelare, kolonn	Thai: เสาค้ำ	Turkish: sütun
Taiwanese: 圓柱	Ukrainian: колона	Urdu: ستون کھمبا
Vietnamese: cột	Chinese: 圆柱
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