| column | | |
| n. (group) | 1. column | a line of units following one after another. |
| ~ armed forces, armed services, military, military machine, war machine | the military forces of a nation.; "their military is the largest in the region"; "the military machine is the same one we faced in 1991 but now it is weaker" |
| ~ indian file, single file, file | a line of persons or things ranged one behind the other. |
| n. (artifact) | 2. chromatography column, column | 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. |
| ~ tube, tubing | conduit consisting of a long hollow object (usually cylindrical) used to hold and conduct objects or liquids or gases. |
| n. (group) | 3. column | a vertical array of numbers or other information.; "he added a column of numbers" |
| ~ array | an orderly arrangement.; "an array of troops in battle order" |
| ~ table, tabular array | a set of data arranged in rows and columns.; "see table 1" |
| n. (shape) | 4. column, pillar, tower | anything that approximates the shape of a column or tower.; "the test tube held a column of white powder"; "a tower of dust rose above the horizon"; "a thin pillar of smoke betrayed their campsite" |
| ~ shape, form | the spatial arrangement of something as distinct from its substance.; "geometry is the mathematical science of shape" |
| ~ columella | a small column (or structure resembling a column) that is a part of a plant or animal. |
| ~ hoodoo | (geology) a column of weathered and unusually shaped rock.; "a tall sandstone hoodoo" |
| n. (communication) | 5. column, editorial, newspaper column | an article giving opinions or perspectives. |
| ~ newspaper, paper | a daily or weekly publication on folded sheets; contains news and articles and advertisements.; "he read his newspaper at breakfast" |
| ~ article | nonfictional prose forming an independent part of a publication. |
| ~ agony column | a newspaper column devoted to personal problems. |
| n. (artifact) | 6. column, pillar | a vertical cylindrical structure standing alone and not supporting anything (such as a monument). |
| ~ obelisk | a stone pillar having a rectangular cross section tapering towards a pyramidal top. |
| ~ structure, construction | a thing constructed; a complex entity constructed of many parts.; "the structure consisted of a series of arches"; "she wore her hair in an amazing construction of whirls and ribbons" |
| ~ totem pole | a tribal emblem consisting of a pillar carved and painted with totemic figures; erected by Indian tribes of the northwest Pacific coast. |
| n. (artifact) | 7. column, pillar | (architecture) a tall vertical cylindrical structure standing upright and used to support a structure. |
| ~ telamon, atlas | a figure of a man used as a supporting column. |
| ~ chapiter, capital, cap | the upper part of a column that supports the entablature. |
| ~ caryatid | a supporting column carved in the shape of a person. |
| ~ newel | the central pillar of a circular staircase. |
| ~ footstall, plinth, pedestal | an architectural support or base (as for a column or statue). |
| ~ pilaster | a rectangular column that usually projects about a third of its width from the wall to which it is attached. |
| ~ piling, spile, stilt, pile | a column of wood or steel or concrete that is driven into the ground to provide support for a structure. |
| ~ scape, shaft | (architecture) upright consisting of the vertical part of a column. |
| ~ support column | a column that supports a heavy weight. |
| ~ temple | an edifice devoted to special or exalted purposes. |
| ~ upright, vertical | a vertical structural member as a post or stake.; "the ball sailed between the uprights" |
| ~ architecture | the discipline dealing with the principles of design and construction and ornamentation of fine buildings.; "architecture and eloquence are mixed arts whose end is sometimes beauty and sometimes use" |
| ~ entasis | a slight convexity in the shaft of a column; compensates for the illusion of concavity that viewers experience when the sides are perfectly straight. |
| n. (communication) | 8. column | a page or text that is vertically divided.; "the newspaper devoted several columns to the subject"; "the bookkeeper used pages that were divided into columns" |
| ~ text, textual matter | the words of something written.; "there were more than a thousand words of text"; "they handed out the printed text of the mayor's speech"; "he wants to reconstruct the original text" |
| n. (body) | 9. column | any tubular or pillar-like supporting structure in the body. |
| ~ skeletal structure | any structure created by the skeleton of an organism. |
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