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Definition of Column

Column A kind of pillar; a cylindrical or polygonal support for a roof, ceiling, statue, etc., somewhat ornamented, and usually composed of base, shaft, and capital. See Order. Anything resembling, in form or position, a column in architecture; an upright body or mass; a shaft or obelisk; as, a column of air, of water, of mercury, etc.; the Column Vendome; the spinal column. A body of troops formed in ranks, one behind the other; -- contradistinguished from line. Compare Ploy, and Deploy. A small army. A number of ships so arranged as to follow one another in single or double file or in squadrons; -- in distinction from "line", where they are side by side. A perpendicular set of lines, not extending across the page, and separated from other matter by a rule or blank space; as, a column in a newspaper. A perpendicular line of figures. The body formed by the union of the stamens in the Mallow family, or of the stamens and pistil in the orchids. Related Definitions: Across, Air, An, And, Another, Anything, Architecture, Are, Army, Arranged, As, Base, Behind, Blank, Body, By, Capital, Ceiling, Column, Compare, Composed, Contradistinguished, Cylindrical, Deploy, Distinction, Double, Extending, Family, File, Follow, For, Form, Formed, From, In, Kind, Line, Mallow, Mass, Matter, Mercury, Newspaper, Not, Number, Obelisk, Of, One, Or, Order, Ornamented, Other, Page, Perpendicular, Pillar, Pistil, Ploy, Polygonal, Position, Resembling, Roof, Rule, See, Separated, Set, Shaft, Side, Single, Small, So, Somewhat, Space, Spinal, Stamens, Statue, Support, The, They, To, Union, Upright, Water, Where

Column Quotations One column of truth cannot hold an institution of ideas from falling into ignorance. It is wiser that a person of prudence and purpose save his strength for battles that can be won. Bryant H. McGill Newspaper readership is declining like crazy. In fact, there's a good chance that nobody is reading my column. Dave Barry Never in our country's history have we witnessed a natural disaster that has impacted so many people in such a wide area. In fact, as of the writing of this column, millions of people along the Gulf Coast have been displaced from their homes in a period of only five days. Jo Bonner And the big issue here, I think, is that the publisher took over the editorial pages, a guy named Jeff Johnson. He's an accountant from Chicago, doesn't know anything about what newspapers are supposed to be about, and he made a decision to get rid of the column. Robert Scheer For a while there, I was a stringer. The expression comes from the old habit of stringing together the column inches that you had written. They'd measure it and pay you 10 cents an inch for your printed copy. Charles Kuralt

Column Translations column in Afrikaans is kolom, rubriek column in Dutch is kolom, steunpilaar, pilaar, colonne column in French is fissure, colonne, file, rubrique, pilier column in German is Druckspalte, Spalte column in Italian is colonna, spaccature column in Portuguese is coluna column in Spanish is columna, fisura column in Swedish is kolumn, pelare, kolonn

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