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noun
1.
Architecture.
a.
a rigid, relatively slender, upright support, composed of relatively few pieces.
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a decorative pillar, most often composed of stone and typically having a cylindrical or polygonal shaft with a capital and usually a base.
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any columnlike object, mass, or formation: a column of smoke.
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a vertical row or list: Add this column of figures.
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a vertical arrangement on a page of horizontal lines of type, usually typographically justified: There are three columns on this page.
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EXPANDa regular feature or series of articles in a newspaper, magazine, or the like, usually having a readily identifiable heading and the byline of the writer or editor, that reports or comments upon a particular field of interest, as politics, theater, or etiquette, or which may contain letters from readers, answers to readers' queries, etc.
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a formation of ships in single file.
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COLLAPSEBotany. a columnlike structure in an orchid flower, composed of the united stamens and style.
Origin:
1400–50; late Middle English columne < Latin columna, equivalent to colum(e)n peak + -a feminine ending; akin to excel; replacing late Middle English colompne < Anglo-French < Latin, as above
1400–50; late Middle English columne < Latin columna, equivalent to colum(e)n peak + -a feminine ending; akin to excel; replacing late Middle English colompne < Anglo-French < Latin, as above
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1. Column, pillar refer to upright supports in architectural structures. Pillar is the general word: the pillars supporting the roof. A column is a particular kind of pillar, especially one with an identifiable shaft, base, and capital: columns of the Corinthian order.
1. Column, pillar refer to upright supports in architectural structures. Pillar is the general word: the pillars supporting the roof. A column is a particular kind of pillar, especially one with an identifiable shaft, base, and capital: columns of the Corinthian order.
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Etymonline
Word Origin & History
column
c.1440, "vertical division of a page," from O.Fr. colombe, from L. columna "pillar," collateral form of columen "top, summit," from PIE base *kel- "to project" (see hill). Sense of "matter written for a newspaper" dates from 1785. Literal, architectural sense is attested from 1481.
Online Etymology Dictionary, © 2010 Douglas Harper
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Medical Dictionary
column col·umn (kŏl'əm)
n.
Any of various tubular or pillarlike supporting structures in the body, such as the spinal column, each generally having a single tissue origin and function.
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