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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.

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Column Quotations
Newspaper readership is declining like crazy. In fact, there's a good chance that nobody is reading my column.
Dave Barry

Objective journalism and an opinion column are about as similar as the Bible and Playboy magazine.
Walter Cronkite

Once I left out what I then considered my best line because there was a suspected column rat in the house.
Dick Cavett

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

I asked him, How could we have a press column if we can't write about other work done in the press?
Sydney Schanberg

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

Jake Green isn't just Jake Green. Jake represents all of us. The colour green is the central column of the spectrum and the name Jake has all sorts of numerical values. All things come back to him within the film's world of cons and games.
Guy Ritchie

As soon as I was old enough to drive, I got a job at a local newspaper. There was someone who influenced me. He wrote a column for The Guardian from this tiny village in India.
Nicholas D. Kristof

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

The bulk of the emails tend to come after a column. I can get about 2,000 after a column.
Nicholas D. Kristof



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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