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US
/ˈkɑɫəm/
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[ UK /kˈɒlʌm/ ]
[ UK /kˈɒlʌm/ ]
NOUN
- (architecture) a tall vertical cylindrical structure standing upright and used to support a structure
- any tubular or pillar-like supporting structure in the body
- 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
- an article giving opinions or perspectives
- a vertical cylindrical structure standing alone and not supporting anything (such as a monument)
- a line of units following one after another
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a vertical array of numbers or other information
he added a column of numbers -
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 -
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
How To Use column In A Sentence
- 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
- 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).
- 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
- And thus the Washington Post column on David's congressional testimony, where he is described "hunched" and said to have "barked," "growled" and "snarled" -- language you would use to describe an animal. Humanizing al Qaeda, Demonizing the Bush Team
- The gossip columnist was paid to chronicle the latest escapades of the socially prominent celebrities.
- 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
