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| column | |
| 1. s. Columna. | |
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| column | |
| 1. s. (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. s. A vertical line of entries in a table, usually read from top to bottom. | |
| 3. s. A body of troops or army vehicles, usually strung out along a road. | |
| 4. s. 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. s. 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. s. (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. s. Something having similar vertical form or structure to the things mentioned above, such as a spinal column. | |
| 8. s. (botany) The gynostemium | |
| 9. s. (chemistry) An object used to separate the different components of a liquid or to purify chemical compounds. | |
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| columna | |
| 1. n-f. (architecture) a column; a circular support | |
| 2. n-f. (chess) file | |
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