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What does column mean?

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column Noun

— A column is a support that is standing up and is built to support something, usually on a building. The White House was built with several columns on the front side of the building to help support the building and prevent it from falling down. — A column is a line of items in a table that goes from top to bottom. The title of the second column in the table is "Population in 2009". — A column is a body of troops that are strung out along a road. — A column is a body of text in a newspaper that goes from top to bottom.

column

— noun a line of units following one after another — 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 a vertical array of numbers or other information he added a column of numbers — noun (= 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 — noun an article giving opinions or perspectives — 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 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 any tubular or pillar-like supporting structure in the body

Synonyms column synonyms

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column English » English

pillar post row line file pole rank support rubric editorial header cylinder train stanchion range pile mast heading category article tower strut string standard stake shaft series pylon prop plume place phalanx newspaper column chromatography column block beam zone vertical row upright bar upright tubing tube truss tree trabecula tie rod supporting strut supporting structure supporting pillar supporting column

Topics column topics

What do people use column to talk about?

Language and thought Communication Mass communication

Newspaper

What words refer to things written in a newspaper?

article editorial column

Work and occupation Working with buildings

Parts of a building

What words refer to the parts of a building?

structure section part wing rotunda pillar column arch archway tower foundation floor roof room wall door window entrance exit passage hall corridor courtyard

Person Body

Internal organs

What are the parts of the nervous system?

brain spinal column spinal cord nerve nervous nerve ending synapse synaptic cerebellum cerebrum ganglion hypothalamus neural neuron

Examples column examples

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Simple sentences

Add up this column of figures.

Tom described himself in the lonely hearts' column as a dependable, dedicated, God-fearing 40-year-old who was seeking a like-minded female for companionship.

Tom wrote to an advice column for help.

The geyser sends up a column of hot water every two hours.

I just love to read the agony column in teenage magazines.

Moscow residents witnessed a large column of military equipment moving on Tverskaya Street.

Movie subtitles

Column left, march!

Brutus, beside the column.

All I know about my private life I read in your column.

I had to do something to get my name into your column.

He's my own photographer. I bet I can get into your column this week, legitimately.

Read Sonny DeWitt's column?

It's a new read for his column.

I said something nice about him in my column. That was very nice of you.

Dewitt, it was downright decent of you to give me that little item in your column.

You can print it in your column and smoke it!

You're a one-man fifth column.

And right alongside it, double column, run your interview.

Column of twos.

Mr. Carter, here is a three-column headline in the Chronicle.

He wants you to write a daily column.

Yeah, in the obituary column.

How about a column?

Yes. With a column, the portrait will really stand out.

Put that item at the head of the society column.

His column fought for you. Didn't think you were guilty.

Every arch, every column, every statue is a carved leaf out of our history.

One of the girls recognized in Cholly Knickerbocker's column. and it was Haines.

You forgot she's writing a gossip column, and you told her something about me.

My, but you look lovely. Got any dirt for the column?

Why hasn't the Inquirer a three-column headline?

I didn't mean to look so stupid, but I never miss reading your column.

Didn't read my column this morning, did you?

I never read your column, Damery.

Then down at the bottom he finishes off his column with a cheap laugh at your expense.

The camps, the column, the posts to build, the trails.

The column is arriving!

So, Mr. Civilian. Tonight, the column.

This column?

And right alongside of it, you know, double column, run your interview.

Over there, near the column.

Column halfway. March.

A column of many tanks and many machines attacked us there.

News and current affairs

But ever-bigger business also had a profound social impact, and here the ledger entries were not all in the positive column.

PARIS - I began writing this column shortly after a remarkable anniversary.

More ominously, Muslims were often considered a Fifth Column within India, plotting to divide the country further.

The first generation of modern warfare reflected the tactics of line and column following the French Revolution.

The response, at least at the time of this column's writing, has mostly been deafening silence.

The first generation of modern warfare comprised battles fought with massed manpower, using Napoleonic line and column formations.

Consider for a moment the vast quantity of column inches and hours of television devoted to the allegations of detainee abuse at Abu Ghraib.

I have an old fountain pen that belonged to my grandmother; it's a nice memento of her, but I wouldn't dream of using it to write this column.

And then there has been the creation of something akin to a political fifth column across Europe.

Bernanke also noted the possibility of temporarily raising the Fed's medium-term inflation target (a policy that I suggested in this column in December 2008).

But that is a subject for another column.

The losers in the region are also clear: Saudi Arabia and the other Gulf states, which feel existentially threatened, and have come to regard their own Shia minorities as an Iranian fifth column.

But that is a subject for a future column.

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