column
nounEtymology
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 Latin collis (“a hill”), celsus (“high”), probably to Ancient Greek κολοφών (kolophṓn, “top, summit”).
Definitions
A solid upright structure designed usually to support a larger structure above it, such…
A solid upright structure designed usually to support a larger structure above it, such as a roof or horizontal beam, but sometimes for decoration.
A vertical line of entries in a table, usually read from top to bottom.
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…
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.
A unit of width, especially of advertisements, in a periodical, equivalent to the width…
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.
A recurring feature in a periodical, especially an opinion piece, especially by a single…
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.
Something having similar vertical form or structure to the things mentioned above, such…
Something having similar vertical form or structure to the things mentioned above, such as a spinal column.
- 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.
The gynostemium
An instrument used to separate the different components of a liquid or to purify chemical…
An instrument used to separate the different components of a liquid or to purify chemical compounds.
The neighborhood
- antonymrowantonym(s) of “line of table entries”
Derived
advice column, agony column, a little from column A and a little from column B, balloon column, clustered column, columnal, columnar, column density, column echelon form, columned, columniferous, columniform, column inch, columnist, columnization, columnize, columnless, columnlike, column of Türck, column shifter, column space, column still, column stinkhorn, column vector, column-wise, columnwise, control column, cortical column, cybercolumn, dodge the column, encolumned, engaged column, eruption column, fifth column, flying column, fractionating column, Hathor column, hypercolumn, immunocolumn, intercolumn · +28 more
Vish — recursive loop
A definitional loop anchored at column. Each word in the ring is defined by the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself. Scroll to it and watch.
A definitional loop anchored at column. Each word in the ring appears in the definition of the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself.
7 hops · closes at column
curated · pre-corpus. live cycle detection across the full graph is the next major milestone.
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