[ US /ˈkɑɫəm/ ]
[ UK /kˈɒlʌm/ ]
NOUN
  1. (architecture) a tall vertical cylindrical structure standing upright and used to support a structure
  2. any tubular or pillar-like supporting structure in the body
  3. 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
  4. an article giving opinions or perspectives
  5. a vertical cylindrical structure standing alone and not supporting anything (such as a monument)
  6. a line of units following one after another
  7. a vertical array of numbers or other information
    he added a column of numbers
  8. a page or text that is vertically divided
    the bookkeeper used pages that were divided into columns
    the newspaper devoted several columns to the subject
  9. 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
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How To Use column In A Sentence

  • Note that you'll be able to find the demonstration projects themselves as open-source projects on the companion site to the column (see Resources).
  • Beard is rather dismissive of their optical sophistication, shown in the curvature of the stylobate and in the entasis of the columns — the slight outward swelling of a column designed to counter the optical illusion of concavity, were the columns 'sides to be perfectly straight. Looking for the Lost Greeks
  • I leaned a minute against a Corinthian column; I lamented that no pontiff arrived with victims and aruspices, of whom I might inquire, what, in the name of birds and garbage, put me so terribly out of humour! for you must know I was very near being disappointed, and began to think Piranesi and Paolo Panini had been a great deal too colossal in their view of this venerable structure. Dreams Waking Thoughts and Incidents
  • Press Y to select evenly spaced columns.
  • But that previous column leads one to question whether a session bean is necessary at all, introducing the possibility of using entity beans and their Home methods instead of session beans.
  • There be sixty-and-four flowers-de-luce, and the riddle is to show how I may remove six of these so that there may yet be an even number of the flowers in every row and every column. The Canterbury Puzzles And Other Curious Problems
  • Last April I wrote a column that suggested it was unwise to try to load the .45 Colt to levels approaching the .44 Magnum.
  • This shows that _for every tone an air column of a certain size most powerfully reinforces that tone_. Resonance in Singing and Speaking
  • He stacked the books on pedestals, making three mysterious columns on one side of the shadowy gallery, two on the other.
  • The extracts obtained were prefiltered through glass wool and sodium sulfate anhydride and filtered by column chromatography (clean-up performed using sodium sulfate anhydride and Celite 545).
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