Dictionary Entry
column
column is a 6-letter English word with 17 senses as noun in the JumbleFix dictionary. One common meaning is: A kind of pillar; a cylindrical or polygonal support for a roof, ceiling, statue, etc., somewhat ornamented, and usually composed of base, shaft, and capital. See Order. Face value is 10 in Scrabble and 15 in Words With Friends. Use the entries below when you need a playable sense, a nearby word, or another arrangement of the same letters.
6 letters · Scrabble 10 · Words With Friends 15 · 17 senses
Definitions
- 1noun
A kind of pillar; a cylindrical or polygonal support for a roof, ceiling, statue, etc., somewhat ornamented, and usually composed of base, shaft, and capital. See Order.
- 2noun
Anything resembling, in form or position, a column in architecture; an upright body or mass; a shaft or obelisk; as, a column of air, of water, of mercury, etc.; the Column Vendome; the spinal column.
- 3noun
A body of troops formed in ranks, one behind the other; -- contradistinguished from line. Compare Ploy, and Deploy.
- 4noun
A small army.
- 5noun
A number of ships so arranged as to follow one another in single or double file or in squadrons; -- in distinction from "line", where they are side by side.
- 6noun
A perpendicular set of lines, not extending across the page, and separated from other matter by a rule or blank space; as, a column in a newspaper.
- 7noun
A perpendicular line of figures.
- 8noun
The body formed by the union of the stamens in the Mallow family, or of the stamens and pistil in the orchids.
- 9noun
(architecture) a tall vertical cylindrical structure standing upright and used to support a structure
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- 10noun
a vertical cylindrical structure standing alone and not supporting anything (such as a monument)
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- 11noun
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
- 12noun
any tubular or pillar-like supporting structure in the body
- 13noun
a page or text that is vertically divided
"the newspaper devoted several columns to the subject"
"the bookkeeper used pages that were divided into columns"
- 14noun
an article giving opinions or perspectives
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- 15noun
a line of units following one after another
- 16noun
a vertical array of numbers or other information
"he added a column of numbers"
- 17noun
anything that approximates the shape of a column or tower
"the test tube held a column of white powder"
"a tower of dust rose above the horizon"
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