column : Idioms & Phrases

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agony column

  • noun a newspaper column devoted to personal problems
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Attached column

  • (Arch.), a column engaged in a wall, so that only a part of its circumference projects from it.
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Canted column

  • (Arch.), a column polygonal in plan.
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chromatography column

  • noun 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
    column.
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Clustered column

  • (Arch.), a column which is composed, or appears to be composed, of several columns collected together.
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column chromatography

  • noun chromatography that uses selective adsorption by a column of powders
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column inch

  • noun a unit of measurement for advertising space
    inch.
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Column rule

  • a thin strip of brass separating columns of type in the form, and making a line between them in printing.
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Diminished column

  • one whose upper diameter is less than the lower.
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Engaged column

  • . (Arch.) Same as Attached column. See under Attach, v. t.
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fifth column

  • noun a subversive group that supports the enemy and engages in espionage or sabotage; an enemy in your midst
    Trojan horse.
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Grouped columns

  • (Arch.), three or moro columns placed upon the same pedestal.
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lally column

  • noun support column consisting of a steel cylinder filled with concrete
    lally.
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newspaper column

  • noun an article giving opinions or perspectives
    column; editorial.
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Parallel columns, ∨ Parallels

  • (Printing), two or more passages of reading matter printed side by side, for the purpose of emphasizing the similarity or discrepancy between them.
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Persian columns

  • (Arch.), columns of which the shaft represents a Persian slave; called also Persians. See Atlantes.
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Spinal column

  • noun the series of vertebrae forming the axis of the skeleton and protecting the spinal cord
    rachis; spinal column; spine; backbone; back.
    • the fall broke his back
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  • the backbone, or connected series or vertebræ which forms the axis of the vertebrate skeleton; the spine; rachis; vertebral column.
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support column

  • noun a column that supports a heavy weight
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vertebral column

  • noun the series of vertebrae forming the axis of the skeleton and protecting the spinal cord
    rachis; spinal column; spine; backbone; back.
    • the fall broke his back
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Vesicular column

  • (Anat.), a series of nerve cells forming one of the tracts distinguished in the spinal; also called the ganglionic column.
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