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inglese > italiano
column
     1. sost. (architettura) colonna
     2. sost. (araldica) colonna
inglese > inglese
column
     1. subst. (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. subst. A vertical line of entries in a table, usually read from top to bottom.
     3. subst. A body of troops or army vehicles, usually strung out along a road.
     4. subst. A body of text meant to be read line by line, especially in printed material that has multiple adjacent such on a single page.
           It was too hard to read the text across the whole page, so I split it into two columns.
     5. subst. A unit of width, especially of advertisements, in a periodical, equivalent to the width of a usual column of text.
           Each column inch costs $300 a week; this ad is four columns by three inches, so will run $3600 a week.
     6. subst. (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.
           His initial foray into print media was as the author of a weekly column in his elementary-school newspaper.
     7. subst. Something having similar vertical form or structure to the things mentioned above, such as a spinal column.
     8. subst. (botany) The gynostemium
     9. subst. (chemistry) An object used to separate the different components of a liquid or to purify chemical compounds.
italiano > inglese
colonna
     1. subst. (architecture) column, pillar
     2. subst. tailback (of traffic)
     3. subst. (chess) file

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Esempi d'uso

A few weeks ago in this column, I wrote about the relationship between language and politics. 
Peter had filed a column whose introduction I found impenetrable. 
It was Baghdad's worst day, and it was compressed into just the few hours during which an exploratory column of tanks nibbled at the edges of the city before retreating. 



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