Dictionary entry details
• COLUMN (noun)
Meaning:
A line of (usually military) units following one after another
Classified under:
Nouns denoting groupings of people or objects
Hypernyms ("column" is a kind of...):
file; Indian file; single file (a line of persons or things ranged one behind the other)
Domain category:
armed forces; armed services; military; military machine; war machine (the military forces of a nation)
Meaning:
A vertical glass tube used in column chromatography; a mixture is poured in the top and washed through a stationary substance where components of the mixture are adsorbed selectively to form colored bands
Classified under:
Nouns denoting man-made objects
Synonyms:
chromatography column; column
Hypernyms ("column" is a kind of...):
tube; tubing (conduit consisting of a long hollow object (usually cylindrical) used to hold and conduct objects or liquids or gases)
Meaning:
A linear array of numbers one above another
Classified under:
Nouns denoting groupings of people or objects
Hypernyms ("column" is a kind of...):
array (an orderly arrangement)
Holonyms ("column" is a member of...):
table; tabular array (a set of data arranged in rows and columns)
Meaning:
Anything tall and relatively thin that approximates the shape of a column or tower
Classified under:
Nouns denoting two and three dimensional shapes
Synonyms:
pillar; tower; column
Context examples:
the test tube held a column of white powder / a tower of dust rose above the horizon / a thin pillar of smoke betrayed their campsite
Hypernyms ("column" is a kind of...):
form; shape (the spatial arrangement of something as distinct from its substance)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "column"):
columella (a small column (or structure resembling a column) that is a part of a plant or animal)
hoodoo ((geology) a column of weathered and unusually shaped rock)
Meaning:
An article giving opinions or perspectives
Classified under:
Nouns denoting communicative processes and contents
Synonyms:
newspaper column; editorial; column
Hypernyms ("column" is a kind of...):
article (nonfictional prose forming an independent part of a publication)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "column"):
agony column (a newspaper column devoted to personal problems)
Holonyms ("column" is a part of...):
newspaper; paper (a daily or weekly publication on folded sheets; contains news and articles and advertisements)
Meaning:
A vertical cylindrical structure standing alone and not supporting anything (such as a monument)
Classified under:
Nouns denoting man-made objects
Synonyms:
pillar; column
Hypernyms ("column" is a kind of...):
construction; structure (a thing constructed; a complex entity constructed of many parts)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "column"):
totem pole (a tribal emblem consisting of a pillar carved and painted with totemic figures; erected by Indian tribes of the northwest Pacific coast)
obelisk (a stone pillar having a rectangular cross section tapering towards a pyramidal top)
Meaning:
(architeture) a tall cylindrical vertical upright and used to support a structure
Classified under:
Nouns denoting man-made objects
Synonyms:
pillar; column
Hypernyms ("column" is a kind of...):
upright; vertical (a vertical structural member as a post or stake)
Meronyms (parts of "column"):
cap; capital; chapiter (the upper part of a column that supports the entablature)
footstall; pedestal; plinth (an architectural support or base (as for a column or statue))
scape; shaft ((architecture) upright consisting of the vertical part of a column)
entasis (a slight convexity in the shaft of a column; compensates for the illusion of concavity that viewers experience when the sides are perfectly straight)
Domain category:
architecture (the discipline dealing with the principles of design and construction and ornamentation of fine buildings)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "column"):
atlas; telamon (a figure of a man used as a supporting column)
caryatid (a supporting column carved in the shape of a person)
newel (the central pillar of a circular staircase)
pilaster (a rectangular column that usually projects about a third of its width from the wall to which it is attached)
pile; piling; spile; stilt (a column of wood or steel or concrete that is driven into the ground to provide support for a structure)
support column (a column that supports a heavy weight)
Holonyms ("column" is a part of...):
temple (an edifice devoted to special or exalted purposes)
