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 column of something
something with a tall, narrow shape: …柱
A column of smoke rose from the chimney.烟囱里冒出了一柱烟。
a line of moving people or vehicles: 一队，一列（移动的人或车辆）
a column of refugees一队难民
Tanks led the column into enemy territory.
The central twelve-foot column is surmounted by a bronze angel with outspread wings.中央12英尺高的柱子顶上立着一座展翅欲飞的天使铜像。
The vertebral column surrounds and protects the spinal cord.
Could you recognize a Grecian column?
The entrance porch is supported by a row of majestic columns.

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Parts of buildings: arches, columns & beams
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capital
colonnade
Doric
ionic
joist
keystone
pedestal
portico
soffit
torus
vault
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Things collected in lines or rings

column | American Dictionary

column
noun[ C ]
us/ˈkɑl·əm/

columnnoun[C] (BUILDING)

a tall, vertical post used as a support for the roof of a building or for decoration
A column is also anything or any set of things having a long, narrow shape:
a column of soldiers
a column of smoke

columnnoun[C] (PRINTING)

one of several vertical blocks of print into which a page of a newspaper or magazine is divided:
The article filled two columns.
A column is also a piece of writing in a newspaper or magazine that is written by the same person and appears regularly, usually on a particular subject:
a column on sports
A column is also any vertical block of words or numbers:
a column of figures

column | Business English

column
noun[ C ]
uk /ˈkɒləm/us(written abbreviationcol.)
a vertical block of printed text on a page of a newspaper or magazine:
The article appears in the second column on page two.
a piece of writing in a newspaper or magazine which is always written by the same person and appears regularly, usually on a particular subject:
She continued to write her column until shortly before her death.
GRAPHS & CHARTS, ACCOUNTING
a vertical block of words or numbers:
Reading from left to right, the first four columns depict transactions with customers.

Examples of column

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Whatever claim the columns may have on us, they come from a source that is producing words at an unprecedented rate.
The figures in the columns give an idea of how the specific nationality is judged.
The data matrix analysed contains in all twenty-nine columns and 309 rows, corresponding respectively to the functional indicators and the towns selected for inclusion.
On the inside, eight granite columns supported, by means of galleries, the drum of the dome.
The arches, columns, and huge statuary of the exterior prepared the traveller or sightseer for the vast vaulted concourse and waiting-room within.
The order of rows and columns is arbitrary.
In the traditional table, the nucleotide types are displayed in the columns, while their frequencies are shown for each alignment in the rows.
How many rows and columns of characters may be displayed on the screen?
The division between two blocks of the relief of dancing putti is placed behind one of the pairs of columns.
There are methods of making saws, methods of replacing columns in a building and experiments with the geometric analysis of the human figure.
Where roofs and columns collapse, the spiders thrive.
The first has two parallel columns that support a beam with two faces.
Reflections ultimately determine the disposition of the columns, and on close inspection the pattern of the travertine floor slabs has irregularities.
However, the study provided some evidence that strabismus can induce columns to form in a species where normally they are wholly absent.
All five squirrel monkeys raised with strabismus exhibited well-developed ocular dominance columns in striate cortex of each hemisphere.
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Collocations withcolumn

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advice column
Anyone can be a columnist and create their own advicecolumn.
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