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column
  1. (architecture) A solid upright structure designed usually to support a larger structure above it, such as a roof or horizontal beam, but sometimes for decoration.
  2. A vertical line of entries in a table, usually read from top to bottom.
  3. A body of troops or army vehicles, usually strung out along a road.
  4. A body of text meant to be read line by line, especially in printed material that has multiple adjacent such on a single page.
  5. A unit of width, especially of advertisements, in a periodical, equivalent to the width of a usual column of text.
  6. (by extension) 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.
  7. Something having similar vertical form or structure to the things mentioned above, such as a spinal column.
  8. (botany) The gynostemium
  9. (chemistry) An object used to separate the different components of a liquid or to purify chemical compounds.
  10. Synonyms:
  11. Examples:
    1. “And we saw one brave young man defy a column of tanks.”
      “The city of Naxos, on the other hand, erected a huge column supporting the image of a Sphinx.”
      “My thanks to the Dallas Morning News for accepting a guest column on the subject.”
columella
  1. (biology) Any of various small structures in plants or animals that are columnar in shape.
  2. (anatomy) The skin at the end of the septum which separates the nostrils.
  3. (comparative anatomy) In birds, reptiles, and amphibians, the small bone which carries vibration from the tympanum to the inner ear.
  4. (malacology) In gastropods, the structure at the center of the whorls of the shell.
  5. (coral) The structure at the center of the calyx where the septa join together.
  6. (mycology) The central sterile portion of the sporangium in various fungi.
  7. Examples:
    1. “A reduced hyomandibula associated with the quadrate in a fish's visceral skull evolved to form the ear ossicle called the stapes, or columella.”
      “On most specimens, the very thin columella in the median part of the shell is either broken or missing.”
      “These structures, along with the columella and apophysis are present in the asexual state.”
columnist
  1. A regular writer of a column, such as in a magazine or newspaper
  2. Synonyms:
  3. Examples:
    1. “New York Post columnist Ken Moran hits the jackpot in the opening of a recent column.”
      “If you know somebody will repeat everything you say over the dinner table to a gossip columnist it will probably put you off the person.”
      “Following complaints from readers, the newspaper's faith in its columnist plummeted and he was sacked.”
columnal
  1. A disklike part of the stem of a crinoid
columnarity
  1. The state or quality of being columnar.
columniation
  1. (architecture) An arrangement or grouping of columns
  2. Synonyms:
  3. Examples:
    1. “The diffracted beam columniation depends on the variable detector distance from the fixed scattering volume.”
      “So it is likely that this is actually a double star, a binary which is very close in separation that may be the mechanism that generates the columniation.”
      “Lamp positions adjust for maximum columniation and optimum coverage.”
columns
  1. plural of column
  2. (juggling) pattern which involves throwing props in the air alternately.
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  4. Examples:
    1. “The superstructure was built atop several huge columns, criss-crossed with stabilising struts, protruding from the waves.”
      “When a church leader asked him to tone down his use of racy language in his columns, his answer was swift.”
      “They were Sumerian and Akkadian words inscribed in parallel columns on clay tablets in cuneiform writing and were organized thematically.”
columniations
columellae
  1. plural of columella
  2. Examples:
    1. “Its most interesting feature was the profusion of not only the cut columellae of whelks, but the hundreds of small bits broken out of the anterior end of gigantic hard clams.”
columnists
columellas
  1. plural of columella
columnals
  1. plural of columnal
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