Definition of column

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Column (n.) A perpendicular line of figures.

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Amphiprostyle :: Amphiprostyle (a.) Doubly prostyle; having columns at each end, but not at the sides..
Line :: Line (n.) A row of letters, words, etc., written or printed; esp., a row of words extending across a page or column..
Decastyle :: Decastyle (a.) Having ten columns in front; -- said of a portico, temple, etc..
Scape :: Scape (n.) The shaft of a column.
Cross-reading :: Cross-reading (n.) The reading of the lines of a newspaper directly across the page, instead of down the columns, thus producing a ludicrous combination of ideas..
Row :: Row (n.) A series of persons or things arranged in a continued line; a line; a rank; a file; as, a row of trees; a row of houses or columns..
Peripteral :: Peripteral (a.) Having columns on all sides; -- said of an edifice. See Apteral.
Blast :: Blast (n.) The exhaust steam from and engine, driving a column of air out of a boiler chimney, and thus creating an intense draught through the fire; also, any draught produced by the blast..
Araeostyle :: Araeostyle (a. & n.) See Intercolumniation.
Infraspinal :: Infraspinal (a.) Below the vertebral column, subvertebral..
Stell :: Stelene (a.) Resembling, or used as, a stela; columnar..
Balaam :: Balaam (n.) A paragraph describing something wonderful, used to fill out a newspaper column; -- an allusion to the miracle of Balaam's ass speaking..
Footing :: Footing (n.) The act of adding up a column of figures; the amount or sum total of such a column.
Pillar :: Pillar (n.) A portable ornamental column, formerly carried before a cardinal, as emblematic of his support to the church..
Trochoid :: Trochoid (a.) Admitting of rotation on an axis; -- sometimes applied to a pivot joint like that between the atlas and axis in the vertebral column.
Pedestal :: Pedestal (n.) The base or foot of a column, statue, vase, lamp, or the like; the part on which an upright work stands. It consists of three parts, the base, the die or dado, and the cornice or surbase molding. See Illust. of Column..
Supraspinal :: Supraspinal (a.) Situated above the vertebral column.
Spur :: Spur (n.) A projection from the round base of a column, occupying the angle of a square plinth upon which the base rests, or bringing the bottom bed of the base to a nearly square form. It is generally carved in leafage..
Bandlet :: Bandlet (n.) A small band or fillet; any little band or flat molding, compassing a column, like a ring..
Cyclostylar :: Cyclostylar (a.) Relating to a structure composed of a circular range of columns, without a core or building within..
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