Meaning of column | Babel Free

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1. A solid upright structure designed usually to support a larger structure above it, such as a roof or horizontal beam, but sometimes for decoration.
2. A solid upright structure designed usually to support a larger structure above it, such as a roof or horizontal beam, but sometimes for decoration
3. A group of people or things arranged in a row:file, line, queue, rank, row, string, tier.
4. A vertical line of entries in a table, usually read from top to bottom.
5. A vertical line of entries in a table, usually read from top to bottom
6. a person who writes regular articles for a newspaper. rubriekskrywer مُعَلِّق صَحَفي журналист в списание colunista redaktor, publicista der Kolumnist journalist, der skriver en fast spalte αρθρογράφοςcolumnista kolumnist ستون نگار؛ کسی که مرتباً در روزنامه مقاله می نویسد kolumnisti chroniqueur כּוֹתֵב טוֹר स्तम्भकार kolumnist rovatvezető kolumnis dálkahöfundur cronista, articolista コラムニスト 칼럼니스트 apžvalgininkas komentētājs (laikrakstā) penulis ruang columnistspaltist, journalist med fast spalt...
7. A body of troops or army vehicles, usually strung out along a road.
8. A body of troops or army vehicles, usually strung out along a road
9. columna.
10. A body of text meant to be read line by line, especially in printed material that has multiple adjacent such on a single page.
11. A body of text meant to be read line by line, especially in printed material that has multiple adjacent such on a single page
12. Architecture a. A vertical structure usually consisting of a base, a cylindrical shaft, and a capital, used as a support or standing alone as a monument.
    Architecture
13. A unit of width, especially of advertisements, in a periodical, equivalent to the width of a usual column of text.
14. A unit of width, especially of advertisements, in a periodical, equivalent to the width of a usual column of text
15. Something resembling an architectural column in form or function: a column of mercury in a thermometer.
16. 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.
    broadly
17. One of two or more vertical sections of text lying side by side in a document and separated by a rule or a blank space.
18. Something having similar vertical form or structure to the things mentioned above, such as a spinal column.
19. A feature article that appears regularly in a publication, such as a newspaper.
20. The gynostemium
21. A formation, as of troops or vehicles, in which all elements follow one behind the other.
22. An instrument used to separate the different components of a liquid or to purify chemical compounds.
23. Botany A columnlike structure, especially one formed by the union of a stamen and the style in an orchid flower, or one formed by the united staminal filaments in flowers such as those of the hibiscus or mallow.
    Botany
24. Anatomy Any of various tubular or pillarlike supporting structures in the body, each generally having a single tissue origin and function: the vertebral column.
    Anatomy

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Examples

“It was too hard to read the text across the whole page, so I split it into two columns.”

“Each column inch costs $300 a week; this ad is four columns by three inches, so will run $3600 a week.”

“His initial foray into print media was as the author of a weekly column in his elementary-school newspaper.”

“I have always argued that despite my opposition to rail privatisation, I should be grateful that John Major won the 1992 election on a platform to sell off the railways, as otherwise my column would have disappeared given the paucity of things to write about.”

“The desert storm was riding in its strength; the travellers lay beneath the mastery of the fell simoom. Whirling wreaths and columns of burning wind, rushed around and over them.”

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