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Column

noun

1.

A line of units following one after another.

2.

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. Synonym: chromatography column.

3.

A vertical array of numbers or other information.

4.

Anything that approximates the shape of a column or tower. Synonyms: pillar, tower. "A tower of dust rose above the horizon" , "A thin pillar of smoke betrayed their campsite"

5.

An article giving opinions or perspectives. Synonyms: editorial, newspaper column.

6.

A vertical cylindrical structure standing alone and not supporting anything (such as a monument). Synonym: pillar.

7.

(architecture) a tall vertical cylindrical structure standing upright and used to support a structure. Synonym: pillar.

8.

A page or text that is vertically divided. "The bookkeeper used pages that were divided into columns"

9.

Any tubular or pillar-like supporting structure in the body.

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"Column" Quotes from Famous Books

... the troops landed they broke up, and rushed out of town like a herd of scalded hogs." If the Patriots generally were absent, it was from design. The Fourteenth Regiment remained near the Town-House until the Twenty-Ninth joined it, when the column marched to the Common. About four o'clock these troops were joined by the Fifty-Ninth Regiment, and a train of artillery with two field-pieces. This made a force of a thousand fine-appearing ...

— Atlantic Monthly, Vol. 9, No. 56, June, 1862 • Various

... feeling its oats. Accordingly, next morning, though the prisoners were meek on being started home by Stirling with twenty soldiers, and the majority of the Crows were meek at seeing them thus started, this was not all. Cheschapah, with a yelling swarm of his young friends, began to buzz about the column as it marched up ...

— Red Men and White • Owen Wister

... father, for every day Somebody passes forever away? Do the newspaper men print a column or more Of every person ...

— Shapes of Clay • Ambrose Bierce

... with my last—shortly after you saw him in St. Louis, I judge. There is one thing which I can't stand and won't stand, from many people. That is sham sentimentality—the kind a school-girl puts into her graduating composition; the sort that makes up the Original Poetry column of a country newspaper; the rot that deals in the "happy days of yore," the "sweet yet melancholy past," with its "blighted hopes" and its "vanished dreams" and all that sort of drivel. Will's were always of this stamp. I stood it years. When I get a letter like that from ...

— Innocents abroad • Mark Twain

... gaping as if you're going to snap at flies. We've got to do some work. There's no hay for those who don't work. Come on, Weary, and drill your men; you with the eyeglass, I mean! I want you to put the company through some close column movements." ...

— The Amateur Army • Patrick MacGill

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