column
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noun- 1.
(architecture) A solid upright structure designed usually to support a larger structure above it, such as a roof or horizontal beam, but sometimes for decoration.
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A vertical line of entries in a table, usually read from top to bottom.
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A body of troops or army vehicles, usually strung out along a road.
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A body of text meant to be read line by line, especially in printed material that has multiple adjacent such on a single page.
It was too hard to read the text across the whole page, so I split it into two columns.
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A unit of width, especially of advertisements, in a periodical, equivalent to the width of a usual column of text.
Each column inch costs $300 a week; this ad is four columns by three inches, so will run $3600 a week.
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(broadly)(by extension) A recurring feature in a periodical, especially an opinion piece, especially by a single author or small rotating group of authors, or on a single theme.
His initial foray into print media was as the author of a weekly column in his elementary-school newspaper.
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Something having similar vertical form or structure to the things mentioned above, such as a spinal column.
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(botany) The gynostemium
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(chemistry) An instrument used to separate the different components of a liquid or to purify chemical compounds.
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ine-pro From Middle English columne, columpne, columpe, borrowed from Old French columne, from Latin columna (a column, pillar, post), originally a collateral form of columen, contraction culmen (a pillar, top, crown, summit). Akin to collis a hill, celsus (high), probably to κολοφών.