Definition:
- (n.) 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.
- (n.) 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.
- (n.) A body of troops formed in ranks, one behind the other; -- contradistinguished from line. Compare Ploy, and Deploy.
- (n.) A small army.
- (n.) 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.
- (n.) 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.
- (n.) A perpendicular line of figures.
- (n.) The body formed by the union of the stamens in the Mallow family, or of the stamens and pistil in the orchids.
Compare column with other words:
bollard vs. column
column vs. footnote
column vs. pole
column vs. section
column vs. monopteral
column vs. semicolumn
column vs. stylometer
column vs. tetrastyle
column vs. octastyle
column vs. columniation
column vs. intercolumniation
astylar vs. column
column vs. pampre
column vs. diastyle
column vs. gorgerin
column vs. systyle
column vs. intercolumnar
column vs. peripteral
column vs. pluteus
cantoned vs. column
amphiprostyle vs. column
column vs. essay
column vs. feature
bridge vs. column
bull vs. column
column vs. piling
column vs. pylon
column vs. mobile
column vs. piller
collum vs. column
column vs. strut
column vs. filar
column vs. firedog
column vs. pier
column vs. scape
column vs. decastyle
column vs. tambour
chapiter vs. column
column vs. columnated
column vs. entablature
column vs. pilaster
column vs. cyclostyle
cincture vs. column
bague vs. column
column vs. pediment
column vs. columned
column vs. entasis
column vs. stump
column vs. marker
column vs. peristyle
column vs. footing
colonnade vs. column
column vs. ploy
apophyge vs. column
column vs. portico
architrave vs. column
column vs. header
column vs. proscenium
bodkin vs. column
annulet vs. column
column vs. columnar
column vs. tab
column vs. impost
column vs. shaft
column vs. widow
ciborium vs. column
column vs. transpose
bearing vs. column
column vs. thermal
column vs. pedestal
column vs. dipteral
column vs. stack
column vs. lineage
column vs. dolly
column vs. schema
column vs. vortex
column vs. orphan
chimney vs. column
column vs. sile
column vs. pillar
column vs. theme
column vs. rotating
author vs. column
column vs. opinion
column vs. periodical
column vs. width
advertisement vs. column
adjacent vs. column
column vs. page
column vs. text
column vs. troops
bottom vs. column
column vs. top
column vs. vertical
column vs. decoration
beam vs. column
column vs. roof
column vs. support
column vs. upright
column vs. solid
column vs. place
column vs. culture
column vs. table
column vs. torus
column vs. mast
column vs. monolith
column vs. plinth
column vs. line
base vs. column
cable vs. column
column vs. facet
capital vs. column
cast vs. column
column vs. cord
column vs. row
column vs. post
abacus vs. column
column vs. head