Column
['kɒləm] or ['kɑləm]
Definition
(noun.) (architecture) a tall vertical cylindrical structure standing upright and used to support a structure.
(noun.) a vertical cylindrical structure standing alone and not supporting anything (such as a monument).
(noun.) 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.
(noun.) any tubular or pillar-like supporting structure in the body.
(noun.) 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'.
(noun.) an article giving opinions or perspectives.
(noun.) a line of units following one after another.
(noun.) a vertical array of numbers or other information; 'he added a column of numbers'.
(noun.) 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'.
Typed by Brandon--From WordNet
Definition
(n.) 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.
(n.) 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.
(n.) A body of troops formed in ranks, one behind the other; -- contradistinguished from line. Compare Ploy, and Deploy.
(n.) A small army.
(n.) 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.
(n.) 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.
(n.) A perpendicular line of figures.
(n.) The body formed by the union of the stamens in the Mallow family, or of the stamens and pistil in the orchids.
Editor: Ronda
Synonyms and Synonymous
n. [1]. Pillar (that is round).[2]. File, line, row.
Editor: Lucia
Definition
n. a long round body used to support or adorn a building: any upright body or mass like a column: a body of troops drawn up in deep files: a perpendicular row of lines in a book.—ns. Col′ūmel a small column; Colūmel′la the central axis of a spiral univalve; the auditory ossicle of the amphibian ear: the central axis of the spore-case of mosses: in the opening of fruits what remains in the centre after the carpels have split away.—adjs. Colum′nal Colum′nar formed in columns.—n. Columna′rity.—adjs. Col′umned Colum′niāted Colum′nated having columns.—n. Colum′niātion.
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Examples
- The shortness of the mercury column as compared with that of water makes the mercury more convenient for both experimental and practical purposes. Bertha M. Clark. General Science.
- I turned and rode around the block the other way, so as to meet the head of the column. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
- We passed a long column of loaded mules, the drivers walking along beside the mules wearing red fezzes. Ernest Hemingway. A Farewell To Arms.
- This automatic electrocuting device attracted so much attention, and got half a column in an evening paper, that the manager made me stop it. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
- The column moving detached from the army still in the trenches was, excluding the cavalry, very small. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
- I was the last to leave the chamber of the submarine, and as I followed the rear of the column toward the corridor, I moved through water to my knees. Edgar Rice Burroughs. The Gods of Mars.
- No, no, no my friend; not to the top of the column; you know better than that; to the bottom, to the bottom. Charles Dickens. Great Expectations.
- From the position I occupied I could see column after column of Bragg's forces moving against Sherman. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
- If the vacuum passes over water, the water may rise in it in a body or column to near the height of thirty-two feet. Benjamin Franklin. Memoirs of Benjamin Franklin.
- In 1868, Glasgow and Wood patented a process of dropping the shot through a column of glycerine or oil. Edward W. Byrn. The Progress of Invention in the Nineteenth Century.
- On the 10th of June the pursuing column was all back at Corinth. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
- I could see the stalled column between the trees in the rain as I went forward across from it in the field. Ernest Hemingway. A Farewell To Arms.
- Her body was long and elegant, her face was crushed tiny like a beetle's, she had rows of round heavy collars, like a column of quoits, on her neck. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
- It was for a ten-key adding machine which did not print and only added in one column. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
- During this day I accompanied General Meade's column, and about midnight received the following communication from General Lee: April 8, 1865. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
- A good skirmish line preceded each of these columns. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
- First there had been columns, then there were regiments, then there were brigades. Hemingway, Ernest. For Whom The Bell Tolls.
- I sat at the foot of these vast columns. Mary Shelley. The Last Man.
- As we moved out through the town it was empty in the rain and the dark except for columns of troops and guns that were going through the main street. Ernest Hemingway. A Farewell To Arms.
- And yet its arches, its columns, and its statues proclaim it to have been built by an enlightened race. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
- Another column marched on the direct road and went into camp at the point designated for the two columns to meet. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
- It had fifty-four columns around it, but only six are standing now--the others lie broken at its base, a confused and picturesque heap. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
- The plan had been for an advance of Sigel's forces in two columns. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
- In the so-called wind instruments, sound is produced by vibrating columns of air inclosed in tubes or pipes of different lengths. Bertha M. Clark. General Science.
- There are small lateral columns of water outside which receive the force, and which transmit and multiply it in the manner which is familiar to you. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes.
- The six columns are their bases, Corinthian capitals and entablature--and six more shapely columns do not exist. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
- At eleven o'clock, our eyes fell upon the walls and columns of Baalbec, a noble ruin whose history is a sealed book. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
- Air columns vibrate in segments just as do strings, and the tone emitted by a pipe of given length is complex, consisting of the fundamental and one or more overtones. Bertha M. Clark. General Science.
- If I had come in here as a journalist, I should have interviewed myself and had two columns in every evening paper. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Return of Sherlock Holmes.
- The balcony of the second floor merged into the barn and there was hay coming Out between the columns. Ernest Hemingway. A Farewell To Arms.
Editor: Rufus