Definition of column in English:

column

noun ˈkɒləmˈkɑləm

1An upright pillar, typically cylindrical, supporting an arch, entablature, or other structure or standing alone as a monument.
柱，圆柱（尤指用以支撑拱形或其他建筑结构，或独立作为纪念碑的石柱或混凝土柱）
a wide entrance portico of eight Ionic columns
the pulpit is hexagonal and stands on seven columns
Example sentencesExamples
- In the Patio de los Leones, over one hundred slender marble columns support ornate arches, shielding the rather chubby marble lions.
- Mirrors covered the side walls, and there were four columns supporting the structure next to them.
- The stage is oval in plan, behind a proscenium arch, flanked by paired piers and columns that support a parted impediment.
- The main idea is a big roof supported on only four columns.
- It is partnered by a stepped gallery running back under the cloister arcade, with round columns beneath those supporting the arches above.
- In structural terms, long and slender reinforced-concrete columns support the floors in an unobtrusive 8.4m grid.
- The station's main entrance is characterized by three elegant arches that are supported on huge Ionic columns.
- The room was rectangular, and there were murals of columns supporting Gothic arches on the walls within.
- It is supported by wood columns and creates a passageway that lets in fresh air and sunlight but blocks inclement weather.
- They stood in a hallway with huge stone columns supporting the ceiling over their heads.
- Roof overhangs are supported by steel columns also encased in stone.
- Inside, the handsome structure with cast iron columns and jack arches was cleaned and repaired.
- Tension gives the thin strips their form and causes them to retain their locations on the cylindrical concrete columns that support the parking slab and roof.
- At this ripe old age, the tree's enormous limbs are supported by steel columns and cables.
- Cardboard tubes acting as structural columns support the roof panels around the perimeter.
- The tower was built of massive columns, great white pillars, supported by beams and buttresses.
- In the centrally focused pantheon of the original bank building, the round dome was supported by interior Ionic columns.
- A coin of Augustus shows what is presumably a square superstructure, with arches on the two faces in view, pilasters or columns, and an entablature but no roof.
- Each pillar has four bronze columns supporting American eagles that hold a victory laurel.
- But all seem to have porches supported by columns of cobblestone brick, or stucco.
Synonyms
pillar, post, pole, support, upright, vertical, baluster, pier, pile, piling, pilaster, stanchion, standard, prop, buttress
rod, shaft, leg, mast, tower, pylon
obelisk, monolith
technical newel, caryatid, telamon, herm
1. 1.1 A vertical, roughly cylindrical thing.
  柱状物
  a great column of smoke
  巨大的烟柱。
  Example sentencesExamples
  She looked out, seeing the dark columns of smoke in the distance.
  The north face incorporates three openings framed by massive stone columns, and the east and west faces each have a single door.
  His cropping of a Maine forest into a grid of vertical pine trunk columns and horizontal branches creates a kind of natural cityscape.
  She turned her head north and saw a column of gray smoke, rising quickly, then blowing away.
  The cards are sorted by artist, in configurations of vertical columns, horizontal bands, rectangles and T-shapes.
  He nodded to himself incessantly as if his spinal column had been magically replaced with a spring.
  Meanwhile the steering column only has height adjustment.
  The car doorframe was damaged and the covering around the steering column had been removed.
  Thick columns of boiling brown smoke are pluming from somewhere among the tower blocks in the centre.
  As a result the water welled up, forming a vertical column through the sandstone.
  Throughout the rest of the garden, raised beds with low stone columns at the corners form living tapestries of plants in complementary colors.
  At first sight I saw small columns of smoke coming from the street.
  She begins with two vertical columns of small squares of pale ocher watercolor laid down dark to light in a grid running four marks across and eight down.
  The chill air was calm and utterly still, columns of smoke rising vertically from the city's chimneys, reaching toward the drab overcast.
  We cannot afford to leave the matter aside until the next column of smoke clouds the horizon and yet more carnage is upon us.
  Now you can see the columns of smoke all over the city.
  On the left edge is a thin column of vertical multicolored stripes divided roughly into thirds horizontally.
  We saw columns of smoke from heavy shells and realised the conflict had taken a turn for the worse.
  A shoal formed by several fish species filled the water column from the coral almost to the surface.
2. 1.2 An upright shaft for controlling a machine or vehicle.
  a Spitfire control column
  喷火式战斗机操纵杆。
  Example sentencesExamples
  An aileron booster system used the main system hydraulic pressure to supplement the pilot's pressure on the control column.
  By keeping my head just above the control column, I could keep my eyes out of the glare and onto the gyrations of the instrument panel's flight indicator.
  Flashing down the runway, I gently pull back on my control column.
  The aircraft is controlled with the aid of a central control column.
  Before anyone knew what was what, the device, which was set on cutter, had gone off, making three wavy holes through the edge of the column where the controls had been.
  The control column gathers the quality procedures and the quality records recommended for management review.
  The controls on the centre column for the dual-zone climate control, DVD-Audio system, and optional GPS are well laid out and easy to locate at touch.
  It enables pilots to use the avionics, radar and weapons systems without having to remove their hands from the control column or the throttle.
  He takes the control column to save his native clan from all the dangers, to destroy all the enemies himself, and to survive where nobody else could.
  No more skittish landings because of sluggish control columns.
  The pitch continued to increase despite the forward movement of the control column.
  This rigid, high-strength, shock-resisting material is used for diesel crankshafts, gears and machine columns.
  The machines are controlled from a column of six isolating switches and two stop buttons.
  All weapons were manually charged and electrically fired by solenoid units that were activated by the two firing switches located on the pilot's control column.
  Circling just outside the target area, I flew with one hand on the control column and the fingers of the other hand on the landing light switches.
  It was in Newfoundland that he took his first aerial photographs - using his knees to hold the control column and manhandling a large plate camera over the aircraft's side.
2A vertical division of a page or text.
（页或正文的）直栏
turn to page five, column seven
detail your expenses in the left-hand column
Example sentencesExamples
- This list took up two columns on the page, though, and it was only a matter of time before something caught her eye.
- It is a large volume of about one thousand pages of text in double columns.
- The editor provided a brief general introduction, a plain text in double columns per page, and a glossary at the end.
- As you saw when first examining the layout, there are basic divisions already in the page: Header, columns, and footer.
- The volume ends with a magnificent mass of notes, some ninety-four pages of double columns and smaller print.
- At the bottom of the right-hand column of this page, I've added links to some fine little organisations who need your help in their brave fight against the forces of darkness.
- One specific comment, though, is that you should change the color of the lettering in the left-hand column on the main page.
- The subject of most newspaper column inches wasn't even a person.
- In appearance it is very like a modern newspaper, though slightly worse printed, and with only five columns on the page.
- If you would like to help, please contact me via the e-mail link at the bottom of the left column on my home page.
- On the verso where the poem concludes the page is divided into two columns with this hemistich division.
- The headline suggests an enormous mouthful to bite off in five columns ' worth of text, but that didn't hold us back in a spring issue 58 years ago.
- The one difference is that I'm displaying the last few movies I've seen (with ratings) on the front page in the main column.
- The first is at the bottom of the right-hand column under the heading " Borrowing by a Limited Partnership".
- The right page is occupied by the text (in two columns, with German on the left and French on the right).
- Its gray trout page and long vertical columns resemble newspapers of the 1800s.
- Chambers English Dictionary of 1872 included an eight page appendix of Americanisms printed in small type, three columns to a page.
- Weights are listed for each character in the right-hand column of table 1.
- You'll notice a new map of the US at the top of the right-hand column of this page.
- Actually, it had no pagination, and I could see right away that it was in black letter, two columns to a page.
1. 2.1 A vertical arrangement of figures or other information.
  （数字或其他资料的）列；纵行
  list your strengths and weaknesses in two columns
  the typical business report consists of columns and rows of numeric information
  Example sentencesExamples
  Imagine a square table consisting of 111 columns and 111 rows.
  She found a piece of paper with a list of names on one column, and a list of figures on the next column.
  Carefully crafted summary reports, with columns of figures, spreadsheets, and graphs appended at the end, take time to digest and appreciate.
  The first column of figures represents the percentage of half days lost through unauthorised absence.
  The memory cell may be implemented in an array of cells to perform a method of creating a reverse breakdown condition in an array of memory cells arranged in columns and rows in the array.
  Your program uses objects, and those objects are automatically transformed into rows, columns and tables in a relational database.
  If it's not unethical corporate moles and scratching through somebody else's rubbish, it's scratching through long columns of your own figures in the hope of an elusive clue.
  It remains the only significant figure in the debit column of the 17th Commonwealth Games.
  You stare at a column of financial figures and your heart sings songs of how woeful it is to be locked up on such a lovely day.
  The higher the pixel resolution (the more rows and columns of pixels), the more information can be displayed.
  In the initial view the times of five trains will be displayed next to each other, with each column listing information about a single train.
  In this case, we should put at the intersections between the rows and columns the figures corresponding to the required initial levels of preceding themes or subjects.
  I feel oppressed and confused by neat columns of figures marching down the page or screen, disoriented by colour-coded graphs and the arcane jargon of statistical analysis.
  Such men found commerce more congenial than industry, and went into the expanding banking sector where the sweat and gore of the factory floor and labour relations were sterilized into columns of figures.
  The third and fourth columns are the corresponding figures for the CLP Budget of 1998 / 99.
  The left column contains information about the visual appearance, or form, of writing produced.
  The base portions are disposed in a matrix arrangement having rows and columns.
  For each faculty member, the following information was requested with each point of information being a column of a table.
  Users are instructed in even the most basic details, such as how to move from one worksheet to another within a workbook, how to select multiple cells, rows or columns, and so on.
  A matrix is a rectangular array of symbols, usually numbers, neatly arranged in columns and rows.
2. 2.2 A regular section of a newspaper or magazine devoted to a particular subject or written by a particular person.
  （报刊的）栏；专栏
  he has a weekly column in a Sydney newspaper
  I've been reading your column for five years
  Example sentencesExamples
  Our gossip columns are filled not with movie stars, but sporting celebrities.
  He also began writing columns in magazines and newspapers, most recently in Metro, a daily newspaper distributed without charge in railway stations and other public places.
  So this week's column is devoted to one of the great men of New Zealand sport.
  Last year he devoted just three of his weekly syndicated newspaper columns to the subject.
  He has been a sports journalist, writing a regular column for a newspaper and a magazine.
  His syndicated column appears in 150 newspapers in some thirty countries.
  My thanks to the Dallas Morning News for accepting a guest column on the subject.
  In fact there are very good reasons why unread - or more or less unreadable - art critics continue to write regular columns for reputable newspapers.
  Both gentlemen above also raise another issue that merits airing in today's column.
  Both rowers write regular newspaper columns and both are frequently contacted by the media for comment on a wide range of topics.
  Well, it was a pity she didn't run the gossip column.
  His syndicated column appears in newspapers across the country.
  Returning to Alaska he wrote a regular column for an Anchorage newspaper and also worked on sculpting.
  He never thought a silly gossip column in a school paper could be so influential.
  He writes a weekly column for the Guardian newspaper.
  Barely had the ink dried on last week's column than the phone rang.
  He trained as a singer and wrote a weekly newspaper column on the social scene.
  Tracy has also written a syndicated weekly column since March of 1986.
  So we asked the Martens to share their wisdom, stories and innovations with us through a regular monthly column.
  Offer to write a weekly advice column in your local paper.
  Synonyms
  article, piece (of writing), item, story, report, account, write-up, feature, essay, composition, study, review, criticism, critique, notice, commentary, editorial, leader
  British informal crit
3One or more lines of people or vehicles moving in the same direction.
（人或交通工具的）队；行
a column of tanks moved north-west
一队坦克向西北行进。
we walked in a column
我们列队步行。
Example sentencesExamples
- The ten baggage carts carrying the tents were the only wheeled vehicles in the column.
- A long column of cars and motorcycles drove through the city, honking horns and waving national flags.
- A silent column of peace protesters marched to a York market.
- But then again, maybe that's realistic - you just can't fit a column of 10 tanks down the average single-lane dirt road.
- Soon a small column of figures appears on the horizon, snaking down an embankment in the glittering morning light.
- Knowing she couldn't read it at the moment, she tucked the volume into one of her own saddlebags and spurred her borrowed mount ahead to keep up with the moving column.
- It is no strange sight to meet columns of foreign tourist vehicles hugging and tugging through the pass in search of the real Africa.
- Long columns of vehicles were seen snaking through the moonlit desert towards the border, after repeated salvoes that lit up the horizon with flashes of fire.
- The real question is how on earth they have got so many busy and placid people so utterly disillusioned with the political process that they are marching in columns thousands deep through the streets of the capital.
- The massed columns of camouflaged vehicles threw up clouds of desert sand as far as the eye could see as they fanned out across the vast featureless landscape.
- There's a long column of tanks returning from a day in the capital.
- During a lull in the fighting, some of the Russians tried to wave down a column of armored vehicles using white flags, but they were ignored.
- I was led to believe from the news stories that the fighters were not charging into tank columns with bomb belts, but using some intelligent and extremely effective guerilla tactics.
- And we saw one brave young man defy a column of tanks.
- Hurriedly, he moved to the front of the column where Faulkner was walking.
- There are 500 kids within these walls, but it's calm and quiet even when columns of pupils move from one activity to another.
- He signaled the tank column, and the accompanying infantry carriers, to stop.
- An assault jeep quickly zoomed ahead of the rest of the moving column, three gunmen disembarking and running forward.
- In these conflicts, fast-moving tank columns had performed great feats; the more armour intensive the operation, the more impressive the results had been.
Synonyms
line, file, queue, procession, rank, row, string, chain, train, trail, progression, succession, cavalcade, parade, motorcade, carcade, cortège, convoy
1. 3.1Military A narrow-fronted deep formation of troops in successive lines.
  〔军〕纵队（队形）
  a column of 300 to 400 troops
  Example sentencesExamples
  While settlers routinely carry weapons, they displayed none when the columns of soldiers and police marched into their communities.
  Targets of opportunity, including a column of marching troops, were attacked.
  Another column of soldiers marched out of the gate, and lined the quay, weapons ready.
  The artillery and mounted horse holders remained in the center of the square between two additional columns of troops advancing on the formation's east and west flanks.
  His portrayals always feature them as masses of men, either moving in columns or lying in exhausted heaps.
2. 3.2 A military force or convoy of ships.
  Moran had commanded a column in the war
  he organized his column for the coming march
  Example sentencesExamples
  Most assaults were directed against U.S. military convoys, columns, or checkpoints.
  Early yesterday a column of armoured vehicles moved into the outskirts in a manoeuvre designed to draw out rebels and provide fresh targets for the air power and artillery.
  The general commandeered the entire column and Cooper found himself deploying this massive force for action.
  The Dutch left Yogjakarta and I heard that the general who led out that military column from Yogja died of apoplexy on the way - it was too much for him.
  This column came into contact with Govt forces at Gutierrez, approx 75 km south of Bogota, and in the ensuing firefights the army lost 37 men.
  About 3,000 soldiers will take part in the review, including nine columns of infantry, two columns of armoured vehicles, helicopters and a military band.
  They were to protect the column against enemy troops at close range who were armed with satchel and pole charges, bazookas and bangalore torpedoes.
  The RAF attacked the retreating Turkish columns, and helped force the Turks back to the Jordan.
  Each brigade was made up of four small battalions and each battalion was organized into two columns.
  The French were handicapped by their lack of artillery and cavalry, which had ensured the success of the column elsewhere.
  Forming two columns, three mounted platoons of the 26th Cavalry set out for Morong.
  The massive French cavalry charge was met by a storm of English arrows, as a result of which the cavalry fled back through the front columns of the French infantry.
  We crossed the line of departure at daybreak in formation as a column of platoons.
  The general commanding the advance tank column was persuaded of the need to divert resources to our assistance.
  He criticised France's reliance on the Maginot Line for defence against Germany and called for the formation of mechanised armoured columns.
  However, the Panzer Regiment destroyed a motorized column and an artillery battery before the French could withdraw.
  He then made the unwise decision to divide his force into three columns, he himself commanding one.
  As the corps entered Belgium, each division planned to move a covering force in advance of its column to seize key objectives assigned for each day.
  The US government was determined to force them back on their reservations, and three army columns were dispatched to do this job by 1876.
  A corps column on a single road without its wagon trains could occupy 5 to 10 miles of road and up to 15 miles with its wagon trains.
  Synonyms
  line, file, queue, procession, rank, row, string, chain, train, trail, progression, succession, cavalcade, parade, motorcade, carcade, cortège, convoy

Derivatives

columnar

adjective kəˈlʌmnəkəˈləmnər

1Resembling an upright pillar or column.
a phalanx of long, columnar crystals
Example sentencesExamples
- the baobab tree trunk, massive and columnar and reaching towards the sky
- The Hot Spring's design is about function as well as good looks - although its columnar shape takes up minimal space, its spiral form ensures maximum surface area for heat output.
- Suddenly the path crosses a tableland of rock to a deep inlet where the sea surges into the first of the two arches - a headland of columnar basalt with a sea cave that has eroded right through the rock like a tunnel.
- In their columnar form, these former poems have retroactively come to represent skyscrapers or apartment high-rises.
- a columnar database
- rows are converted to columnar format
2(of figures or other information) arranged vertically.

columned

adjective ˈkɒləmdˈkɑləmd

often in combination a four-columned portico
Example sentencesExamples
- The columned lobby which doubles as the main office, spells opulence.
- From the outside, with its enormous windows and columned entrance, the hotel is most impressive.
- Flowing gowns with side-splits reveal slim-line trousers and overtly high necks have dangerously low backs, whilst knitted snoods and jumpers are layered over strapless columned dresses.
- He took a picture of it, though, that haunted me for years - a crumbling, columned building, hung about with Spanish moss.
- Lining one side of the Forum are stone Medusa faces with eyes that still bedevil the onlooker, whilst at the far end, under a columned portico, the remains of a Roman bar recall present-day cafes in Florentine or Venetian piazzas.

Origin

Late Middle English: partly from Old French columpne, reinforced by its source, Latin columna 'pillar'.

Rhymes

olm, solemn

Definition of column in US English:

column

nounˈkäləmˈkɑləm

1An upright pillar, typically cylindrical and made of stone or concrete, supporting an entablature, arch, or other structure or standing alone as a monument.
柱，圆柱（尤指用以支撑拱形或其他建筑结构，或独立作为纪念碑的石柱或混凝土柱）
Example sentencesExamples
- Inside, the handsome structure with cast iron columns and jack arches was cleaned and repaired.
- It is supported by wood columns and creates a passageway that lets in fresh air and sunlight but blocks inclement weather.
- Cardboard tubes acting as structural columns support the roof panels around the perimeter.
- Mirrors covered the side walls, and there were four columns supporting the structure next to them.
- The stage is oval in plan, behind a proscenium arch, flanked by paired piers and columns that support a parted impediment.
- Tension gives the thin strips their form and causes them to retain their locations on the cylindrical concrete columns that support the parking slab and roof.
- The station's main entrance is characterized by three elegant arches that are supported on huge Ionic columns.
- In the centrally focused pantheon of the original bank building, the round dome was supported by interior Ionic columns.
- The tower was built of massive columns, great white pillars, supported by beams and buttresses.
- The room was rectangular, and there were murals of columns supporting Gothic arches on the walls within.
- In the Patio de los Leones, over one hundred slender marble columns support ornate arches, shielding the rather chubby marble lions.
- They stood in a hallway with huge stone columns supporting the ceiling over their heads.
- A coin of Augustus shows what is presumably a square superstructure, with arches on the two faces in view, pilasters or columns, and an entablature but no roof.
- It is partnered by a stepped gallery running back under the cloister arcade, with round columns beneath those supporting the arches above.
- Roof overhangs are supported by steel columns also encased in stone.
- In structural terms, long and slender reinforced-concrete columns support the floors in an unobtrusive 8.4m grid.
- Each pillar has four bronze columns supporting American eagles that hold a victory laurel.
- The main idea is a big roof supported on only four columns.
- At this ripe old age, the tree's enormous limbs are supported by steel columns and cables.
- But all seem to have porches supported by columns of cobblestone brick, or stucco.
Synonyms
pillar, post, pole, support, upright, vertical, baluster, pier, pile, piling, pilaster, stanchion, standard, prop, buttress
1. 1.1 A vertical, roughly cylindrical thing.
  柱状物
  a great column of smoke
  巨大的烟柱。
  Example sentencesExamples
  Meanwhile the steering column only has height adjustment.
  His cropping of a Maine forest into a grid of vertical pine trunk columns and horizontal branches creates a kind of natural cityscape.
  The north face incorporates three openings framed by massive stone columns, and the east and west faces each have a single door.
  As a result the water welled up, forming a vertical column through the sandstone.
  She looked out, seeing the dark columns of smoke in the distance.
  She turned her head north and saw a column of gray smoke, rising quickly, then blowing away.
  Now you can see the columns of smoke all over the city.
  At first sight I saw small columns of smoke coming from the street.
  A shoal formed by several fish species filled the water column from the coral almost to the surface.
  The car doorframe was damaged and the covering around the steering column had been removed.
  The chill air was calm and utterly still, columns of smoke rising vertically from the city's chimneys, reaching toward the drab overcast.
  We saw columns of smoke from heavy shells and realised the conflict had taken a turn for the worse.
  She begins with two vertical columns of small squares of pale ocher watercolor laid down dark to light in a grid running four marks across and eight down.
  The cards are sorted by artist, in configurations of vertical columns, horizontal bands, rectangles and T-shapes.
  On the left edge is a thin column of vertical multicolored stripes divided roughly into thirds horizontally.
  Thick columns of boiling brown smoke are pluming from somewhere among the tower blocks in the centre.
  We cannot afford to leave the matter aside until the next column of smoke clouds the horizon and yet more carnage is upon us.
  Throughout the rest of the garden, raised beds with low stone columns at the corners form living tapestries of plants in complementary colors.
  He nodded to himself incessantly as if his spinal column had been magically replaced with a spring.
2. 1.2 An upright shaft forming part of a machine and typically used for controlling it.
  （机器中的）控制杆（或轴）；操纵杆（或轴）
  a Spitfire control column
  喷火式战斗机操纵杆。
  Example sentencesExamples
  It enables pilots to use the avionics, radar and weapons systems without having to remove their hands from the control column or the throttle.
  Flashing down the runway, I gently pull back on my control column.
  It was in Newfoundland that he took his first aerial photographs - using his knees to hold the control column and manhandling a large plate camera over the aircraft's side.
  Circling just outside the target area, I flew with one hand on the control column and the fingers of the other hand on the landing light switches.
  The aircraft is controlled with the aid of a central control column.
  All weapons were manually charged and electrically fired by solenoid units that were activated by the two firing switches located on the pilot's control column.
  An aileron booster system used the main system hydraulic pressure to supplement the pilot's pressure on the control column.
  The control column gathers the quality procedures and the quality records recommended for management review.
  This rigid, high-strength, shock-resisting material is used for diesel crankshafts, gears and machine columns.
  The pitch continued to increase despite the forward movement of the control column.
  By keeping my head just above the control column, I could keep my eyes out of the glare and onto the gyrations of the instrument panel's flight indicator.
  The machines are controlled from a column of six isolating switches and two stop buttons.
  No more skittish landings because of sluggish control columns.
  Before anyone knew what was what, the device, which was set on cutter, had gone off, making three wavy holes through the edge of the column where the controls had been.
  The controls on the centre column for the dual-zone climate control, DVD-Audio system, and optional GPS are well laid out and easy to locate at touch.
  He takes the control column to save his native clan from all the dangers, to destroy all the enemies himself, and to survive where nobody else could.
2A vertical division of a page or text.
（页或正文的）直栏
Example sentencesExamples
- One specific comment, though, is that you should change the color of the lettering in the left-hand column on the main page.
- Chambers English Dictionary of 1872 included an eight page appendix of Americanisms printed in small type, three columns to a page.
- Weights are listed for each character in the right-hand column of table 1.
- This list took up two columns on the page, though, and it was only a matter of time before something caught her eye.
- On the verso where the poem concludes the page is divided into two columns with this hemistich division.
- You'll notice a new map of the US at the top of the right-hand column of this page.
- It is a large volume of about one thousand pages of text in double columns.
- The one difference is that I'm displaying the last few movies I've seen (with ratings) on the front page in the main column.
- The headline suggests an enormous mouthful to bite off in five columns ' worth of text, but that didn't hold us back in a spring issue 58 years ago.
- At the bottom of the right-hand column of this page, I've added links to some fine little organisations who need your help in their brave fight against the forces of darkness.
- The editor provided a brief general introduction, a plain text in double columns per page, and a glossary at the end.
- The first is at the bottom of the right-hand column under the heading " Borrowing by a Limited Partnership".
- In appearance it is very like a modern newspaper, though slightly worse printed, and with only five columns on the page.
- Its gray trout page and long vertical columns resemble newspapers of the 1800s.
- If you would like to help, please contact me via the e-mail link at the bottom of the left column on my home page.
- Actually, it had no pagination, and I could see right away that it was in black letter, two columns to a page.
- The volume ends with a magnificent mass of notes, some ninety-four pages of double columns and smaller print.
- As you saw when first examining the layout, there are basic divisions already in the page: Header, columns, and footer.
- The right page is occupied by the text (in two columns, with German on the left and French on the right).
- The subject of most newspaper column inches wasn't even a person.
1. 2.1 A vertical arrangement of figures or other information.
  （数字或其他资料的）列；纵行
  Example sentencesExamples
  Carefully crafted summary reports, with columns of figures, spreadsheets, and graphs appended at the end, take time to digest and appreciate.
  Such men found commerce more congenial than industry, and went into the expanding banking sector where the sweat and gore of the factory floor and labour relations were sterilized into columns of figures.
  In this case, we should put at the intersections between the rows and columns the figures corresponding to the required initial levels of preceding themes or subjects.
  A matrix is a rectangular array of symbols, usually numbers, neatly arranged in columns and rows.
  Users are instructed in even the most basic details, such as how to move from one worksheet to another within a workbook, how to select multiple cells, rows or columns, and so on.
  Your program uses objects, and those objects are automatically transformed into rows, columns and tables in a relational database.
  Imagine a square table consisting of 111 columns and 111 rows.
  The third and fourth columns are the corresponding figures for the CLP Budget of 1998 / 99.
  For each faculty member, the following information was requested with each point of information being a column of a table.
  The left column contains information about the visual appearance, or form, of writing produced.
  In the initial view the times of five trains will be displayed next to each other, with each column listing information about a single train.
  I feel oppressed and confused by neat columns of figures marching down the page or screen, disoriented by colour-coded graphs and the arcane jargon of statistical analysis.
  You stare at a column of financial figures and your heart sings songs of how woeful it is to be locked up on such a lovely day.
  The memory cell may be implemented in an array of cells to perform a method of creating a reverse breakdown condition in an array of memory cells arranged in columns and rows in the array.
  The first column of figures represents the percentage of half days lost through unauthorised absence.
  It remains the only significant figure in the debit column of the 17th Commonwealth Games.
  The higher the pixel resolution (the more rows and columns of pixels), the more information can be displayed.
  The base portions are disposed in a matrix arrangement having rows and columns.
  If it's not unethical corporate moles and scratching through somebody else's rubbish, it's scratching through long columns of your own figures in the hope of an elusive clue.
  She found a piece of paper with a list of names on one column, and a list of figures on the next column.
2. 2.2 A section of a newspaper or magazine regularly devoted to a particular subject or written by a particular person.
  （报刊的）栏；专栏
  Example sentencesExamples
  Our gossip columns are filled not with movie stars, but sporting celebrities.
  He also began writing columns in magazines and newspapers, most recently in Metro, a daily newspaper distributed without charge in railway stations and other public places.
  Well, it was a pity she didn't run the gossip column.
  His syndicated column appears in 150 newspapers in some thirty countries.
  Returning to Alaska he wrote a regular column for an Anchorage newspaper and also worked on sculpting.
  Both gentlemen above also raise another issue that merits airing in today's column.
  Barely had the ink dried on last week's column than the phone rang.
  He trained as a singer and wrote a weekly newspaper column on the social scene.
  Both rowers write regular newspaper columns and both are frequently contacted by the media for comment on a wide range of topics.
  His syndicated column appears in newspapers across the country.
  My thanks to the Dallas Morning News for accepting a guest column on the subject.
  He has been a sports journalist, writing a regular column for a newspaper and a magazine.
  In fact there are very good reasons why unread - or more or less unreadable - art critics continue to write regular columns for reputable newspapers.
  Offer to write a weekly advice column in your local paper.
  He writes a weekly column for the Guardian newspaper.
  So we asked the Martens to share their wisdom, stories and innovations with us through a regular monthly column.
  Last year he devoted just three of his weekly syndicated newspaper columns to the subject.
  He never thought a silly gossip column in a school paper could be so influential.
  So this week's column is devoted to one of the great men of New Zealand sport.
  Tracy has also written a syndicated weekly column since March of 1986.
  Synonyms
  article, piece, piece of writing, item, story, report, account, write-up, feature, essay, composition, study, review, criticism, critique, notice, commentary, editorial, leader
3One or more lines of people or vehicles moving in the same direction.
（人或交通工具的）队；行
a column of tanks moved northwest
一队坦克向西北行进。
we walked in a column
我们列队步行。
Example sentencesExamples
- During a lull in the fighting, some of the Russians tried to wave down a column of armored vehicles using white flags, but they were ignored.
- An assault jeep quickly zoomed ahead of the rest of the moving column, three gunmen disembarking and running forward.
- The real question is how on earth they have got so many busy and placid people so utterly disillusioned with the political process that they are marching in columns thousands deep through the streets of the capital.
- In these conflicts, fast-moving tank columns had performed great feats; the more armour intensive the operation, the more impressive the results had been.
- But then again, maybe that's realistic - you just can't fit a column of 10 tanks down the average single-lane dirt road.
- Soon a small column of figures appears on the horizon, snaking down an embankment in the glittering morning light.
- A silent column of peace protesters marched to a York market.
- The massed columns of camouflaged vehicles threw up clouds of desert sand as far as the eye could see as they fanned out across the vast featureless landscape.
- I was led to believe from the news stories that the fighters were not charging into tank columns with bomb belts, but using some intelligent and extremely effective guerilla tactics.
- And we saw one brave young man defy a column of tanks.
- It is no strange sight to meet columns of foreign tourist vehicles hugging and tugging through the pass in search of the real Africa.
- There's a long column of tanks returning from a day in the capital.
- Knowing she couldn't read it at the moment, she tucked the volume into one of her own saddlebags and spurred her borrowed mount ahead to keep up with the moving column.
- He signaled the tank column, and the accompanying infantry carriers, to stop.
- Hurriedly, he moved to the front of the column where Faulkner was walking.
- There are 500 kids within these walls, but it's calm and quiet even when columns of pupils move from one activity to another.
- A long column of cars and motorcycles drove through the city, honking horns and waving national flags.
- Long columns of vehicles were seen snaking through the moonlit desert towards the border, after repeated salvoes that lit up the horizon with flashes of fire.
- The ten baggage carts carrying the tents were the only wheeled vehicles in the column.
Synonyms
line, file, queue, procession, rank, row, string, chain, train, trail, progression, succession, cavalcade, parade, motorcade, carcade, cortège, convoy
1. 3.1Military A narrow-fronted deep formation of troops in successive lines.
  〔军〕纵队（队形）
  Example sentencesExamples
  Targets of opportunity, including a column of marching troops, were attacked.
  The artillery and mounted horse holders remained in the center of the square between two additional columns of troops advancing on the formation's east and west flanks.
  While settlers routinely carry weapons, they displayed none when the columns of soldiers and police marched into their communities.
  Another column of soldiers marched out of the gate, and lined the quay, weapons ready.
  His portrayals always feature them as masses of men, either moving in columns or lying in exhausted heaps.
2. 3.2 A military force or convoy of ships.
  Example sentencesExamples
  The general commanding the advance tank column was persuaded of the need to divert resources to our assistance.
  About 3,000 soldiers will take part in the review, including nine columns of infantry, two columns of armoured vehicles, helicopters and a military band.
  The RAF attacked the retreating Turkish columns, and helped force the Turks back to the Jordan.
  Most assaults were directed against U.S. military convoys, columns, or checkpoints.
  A corps column on a single road without its wagon trains could occupy 5 to 10 miles of road and up to 15 miles with its wagon trains.
  As the corps entered Belgium, each division planned to move a covering force in advance of its column to seize key objectives assigned for each day.
  Early yesterday a column of armoured vehicles moved into the outskirts in a manoeuvre designed to draw out rebels and provide fresh targets for the air power and artillery.
  They were to protect the column against enemy troops at close range who were armed with satchel and pole charges, bazookas and bangalore torpedoes.
  Forming two columns, three mounted platoons of the 26th Cavalry set out for Morong.
  The general commandeered the entire column and Cooper found himself deploying this massive force for action.
  This column came into contact with Govt forces at Gutierrez, approx 75 km south of Bogota, and in the ensuing firefights the army lost 37 men.
  The Dutch left Yogjakarta and I heard that the general who led out that military column from Yogja died of apoplexy on the way - it was too much for him.
  The French were handicapped by their lack of artillery and cavalry, which had ensured the success of the column elsewhere.
  The massive French cavalry charge was met by a storm of English arrows, as a result of which the cavalry fled back through the front columns of the French infantry.
  Each brigade was made up of four small battalions and each battalion was organized into two columns.
  He criticised France's reliance on the Maginot Line for defence against Germany and called for the formation of mechanised armoured columns.
  The US government was determined to force them back on their reservations, and three army columns were dispatched to do this job by 1876.
  We crossed the line of departure at daybreak in formation as a column of platoons.
  However, the Panzer Regiment destroyed a motorized column and an artillery battery before the French could withdraw.
  He then made the unwise decision to divide his force into three columns, he himself commanding one.
  Synonyms
  line, file, queue, procession, rank, row, string, chain, train, trail, progression, succession, cavalcade, parade, motorcade, carcade, cortège, convoy

Origin

Late Middle English: partly from Old French columpne, reinforced by its source, Latin columna ‘pillar’.

词汇	column
释义	Definition of column in English: column noun ˈkɒləmˈkɑləm 1An upright pillar, typically cylindrical, supporting an arch, entablature, or other structure or standing alone as a monument. 柱，圆柱（尤指用以支撑拱形或其他建筑结构，或独立作为纪念碑的石柱或混凝土柱） a wide entrance portico of eight Ionic columns the pulpit is hexagonal and stands on seven columns Example sentencesExamples In the Patio de los Leones, over one hundred slender marble columns support ornate arches, shielding the rather chubby marble lions. Mirrors covered the side walls, and there were four columns supporting the structure next to them. The stage is oval in plan, behind a proscenium arch, flanked by paired piers and columns that support a parted impediment. The main idea is a big roof supported on only four columns. It is partnered by a stepped gallery running back under the cloister arcade, with round columns beneath those supporting the arches above. In structural terms, long and slender reinforced-concrete columns support the floors in an unobtrusive 8.4m grid. The station's main entrance is characterized by three elegant arches that are supported on huge Ionic columns. The room was rectangular, and there were murals of columns supporting Gothic arches on the walls within. It is supported by wood columns and creates a passageway that lets in fresh air and sunlight but blocks inclement weather. They stood in a hallway with huge stone columns supporting the ceiling over their heads. Roof overhangs are supported by steel columns also encased in stone. Inside, the handsome structure with cast iron columns and jack arches was cleaned and repaired. Tension gives the thin strips their form and causes them to retain their locations on the cylindrical concrete columns that support the parking slab and roof. At this ripe old age, the tree's enormous limbs are supported by steel columns and cables. Cardboard tubes acting as structural columns support the roof panels around the perimeter. The tower was built of massive columns, great white pillars, supported by beams and buttresses. In the centrally focused pantheon of the original bank building, the round dome was supported by interior Ionic columns. A coin of Augustus shows what is presumably a square superstructure, with arches on the two faces in view, pilasters or columns, and an entablature but no roof. Each pillar has four bronze columns supporting American eagles that hold a victory laurel. But all seem to have porches supported by columns of cobblestone brick, or stucco. Synonyms pillar, post, pole, support, upright, vertical, baluster, pier, pile, piling, pilaster, stanchion, standard, prop, buttress rod, shaft, leg, mast, tower, pylon obelisk, monolith technical newel, caryatid, telamon, herm 1.1 A vertical, roughly cylindrical thing. 柱状物 a great column of smoke 巨大的烟柱。 Example sentencesExamples She looked out, seeing the dark columns of smoke in the distance. The north face incorporates three openings framed by massive stone columns, and the east and west faces each have a single door. His cropping of a Maine forest into a grid of vertical pine trunk columns and horizontal branches creates a kind of natural cityscape. She turned her head north and saw a column of gray smoke, rising quickly, then blowing away. The cards are sorted by artist, in configurations of vertical columns, horizontal bands, rectangles and T-shapes. He nodded to himself incessantly as if his spinal column had been magically replaced with a spring. Meanwhile the steering column only has height adjustment. The car doorframe was damaged and the covering around the steering column had been removed. Thick columns of boiling brown smoke are pluming from somewhere among the tower blocks in the centre. As a result the water welled up, forming a vertical column through the sandstone. Throughout the rest of the garden, raised beds with low stone columns at the corners form living tapestries of plants in complementary colors. At first sight I saw small columns of smoke coming from the street. She begins with two vertical columns of small squares of pale ocher watercolor laid down dark to light in a grid running four marks across and eight down. The chill air was calm and utterly still, columns of smoke rising vertically from the city's chimneys, reaching toward the drab overcast. We cannot afford to leave the matter aside until the next column of smoke clouds the horizon and yet more carnage is upon us. Now you can see the columns of smoke all over the city. On the left edge is a thin column of vertical multicolored stripes divided roughly into thirds horizontally. We saw columns of smoke from heavy shells and realised the conflict had taken a turn for the worse. A shoal formed by several fish species filled the water column from the coral almost to the surface. 1.2 An upright shaft for controlling a machine or vehicle. a Spitfire control column 喷火式战斗机操纵杆。 Example sentencesExamples An aileron booster system used the main system hydraulic pressure to supplement the pilot's pressure on the control column. By keeping my head just above the control column, I could keep my eyes out of the glare and onto the gyrations of the instrument panel's flight indicator. Flashing down the runway, I gently pull back on my control column. The aircraft is controlled with the aid of a central control column. Before anyone knew what was what, the device, which was set on cutter, had gone off, making three wavy holes through the edge of the column where the controls had been. The control column gathers the quality procedures and the quality records recommended for management review. The controls on the centre column for the dual-zone climate control, DVD-Audio system, and optional GPS are well laid out and easy to locate at touch. It enables pilots to use the avionics, radar and weapons systems without having to remove their hands from the control column or the throttle. He takes the control column to save his native clan from all the dangers, to destroy all the enemies himself, and to survive where nobody else could. No more skittish landings because of sluggish control columns. The pitch continued to increase despite the forward movement of the control column. This rigid, high-strength, shock-resisting material is used for diesel crankshafts, gears and machine columns. The machines are controlled from a column of six isolating switches and two stop buttons. All weapons were manually charged and electrically fired by solenoid units that were activated by the two firing switches located on the pilot's control column. Circling just outside the target area, I flew with one hand on the control column and the fingers of the other hand on the landing light switches. It was in Newfoundland that he took his first aerial photographs - using his knees to hold the control column and manhandling a large plate camera over the aircraft's side. 2A vertical division of a page or text. （页或正文的）直栏 turn to page five, column seven detail your expenses in the left-hand column Example sentencesExamples This list took up two columns on the page, though, and it was only a matter of time before something caught her eye. It is a large volume of about one thousand pages of text in double columns. The editor provided a brief general introduction, a plain text in double columns per page, and a glossary at the end. As you saw when first examining the layout, there are basic divisions already in the page: Header, columns, and footer. The volume ends with a magnificent mass of notes, some ninety-four pages of double columns and smaller print. At the bottom of the right-hand column of this page, I've added links to some fine little organisations who need your help in their brave fight against the forces of darkness. One specific comment, though, is that you should change the color of the lettering in the left-hand column on the main page. The subject of most newspaper column inches wasn't even a person. In appearance it is very like a modern newspaper, though slightly worse printed, and with only five columns on the page. If you would like to help, please contact me via the e-mail link at the bottom of the left column on my home page. On the verso where the poem concludes the page is divided into two columns with this hemistich division. The headline suggests an enormous mouthful to bite off in five columns ' worth of text, but that didn't hold us back in a spring issue 58 years ago. The one difference is that I'm displaying the last few movies I've seen (with ratings) on the front page in the main column. The first is at the bottom of the right-hand column under the heading " Borrowing by a Limited Partnership". The right page is occupied by the text (in two columns, with German on the left and French on the right). Its gray trout page and long vertical columns resemble newspapers of the 1800s. Chambers English Dictionary of 1872 included an eight page appendix of Americanisms printed in small type, three columns to a page. Weights are listed for each character in the right-hand column of table 1. You'll notice a new map of the US at the top of the right-hand column of this page. Actually, it had no pagination, and I could see right away that it was in black letter, two columns to a page. 2.1 A vertical arrangement of figures or other information. （数字或其他资料的）列；纵行 list your strengths and weaknesses in two columns the typical business report consists of columns and rows of numeric information Example sentencesExamples Imagine a square table consisting of 111 columns and 111 rows. She found a piece of paper with a list of names on one column, and a list of figures on the next column. Carefully crafted summary reports, with columns of figures, spreadsheets, and graphs appended at the end, take time to digest and appreciate. The first column of figures represents the percentage of half days lost through unauthorised absence. The memory cell may be implemented in an array of cells to perform a method of creating a reverse breakdown condition in an array of memory cells arranged in columns and rows in the array. Your program uses objects, and those objects are automatically transformed into rows, columns and tables in a relational database. If it's not unethical corporate moles and scratching through somebody else's rubbish, it's scratching through long columns of your own figures in the hope of an elusive clue. It remains the only significant figure in the debit column of the 17th Commonwealth Games. You stare at a column of financial figures and your heart sings songs of how woeful it is to be locked up on such a lovely day. The higher the pixel resolution (the more rows and columns of pixels), the more information can be displayed. In the initial view the times of five trains will be displayed next to each other, with each column listing information about a single train. In this case, we should put at the intersections between the rows and columns the figures corresponding to the required initial levels of preceding themes or subjects. I feel oppressed and confused by neat columns of figures marching down the page or screen, disoriented by colour-coded graphs and the arcane jargon of statistical analysis. Such men found commerce more congenial than industry, and went into the expanding banking sector where the sweat and gore of the factory floor and labour relations were sterilized into columns of figures. The third and fourth columns are the corresponding figures for the CLP Budget of 1998 / 99. The left column contains information about the visual appearance, or form, of writing produced. The base portions are disposed in a matrix arrangement having rows and columns. For each faculty member, the following information was requested with each point of information being a column of a table. Users are instructed in even the most basic details, such as how to move from one worksheet to another within a workbook, how to select multiple cells, rows or columns, and so on. A matrix is a rectangular array of symbols, usually numbers, neatly arranged in columns and rows. 2.2 A regular section of a newspaper or magazine devoted to a particular subject or written by a particular person. （报刊的）栏；专栏 he has a weekly column in a Sydney newspaper I've been reading your column for five years Example sentencesExamples Our gossip columns are filled not with movie stars, but sporting celebrities. He also began writing columns in magazines and newspapers, most recently in Metro, a daily newspaper distributed without charge in railway stations and other public places. So this week's column is devoted to one of the great men of New Zealand sport. Last year he devoted just three of his weekly syndicated newspaper columns to the subject. He has been a sports journalist, writing a regular column for a newspaper and a magazine. His syndicated column appears in 150 newspapers in some thirty countries. My thanks to the Dallas Morning News for accepting a guest column on the subject. In fact there are very good reasons why unread - or more or less unreadable - art critics continue to write regular columns for reputable newspapers. Both gentlemen above also raise another issue that merits airing in today's column. Both rowers write regular newspaper columns and both are frequently contacted by the media for comment on a wide range of topics. Well, it was a pity she didn't run the gossip column. His syndicated column appears in newspapers across the country. Returning to Alaska he wrote a regular column for an Anchorage newspaper and also worked on sculpting. He never thought a silly gossip column in a school paper could be so influential. He writes a weekly column for the Guardian newspaper. Barely had the ink dried on last week's column than the phone rang. He trained as a singer and wrote a weekly newspaper column on the social scene. Tracy has also written a syndicated weekly column since March of 1986. So we asked the Martens to share their wisdom, stories and innovations with us through a regular monthly column. Offer to write a weekly advice column in your local paper. Synonyms article, piece (of writing), item, story, report, account, write-up, feature, essay, composition, study, review, criticism, critique, notice, commentary, editorial, leader British informal crit 3One or more lines of people or vehicles moving in the same direction. （人或交通工具的）队；行 a column of tanks moved north-west 一队坦克向西北行进。 we walked in a column 我们列队步行。 Example sentencesExamples The ten baggage carts carrying the tents were the only wheeled vehicles in the column. A long column of cars and motorcycles drove through the city, honking horns and waving national flags. A silent column of peace protesters marched to a York market. But then again, maybe that's realistic - you just can't fit a column of 10 tanks down the average single-lane dirt road. Soon a small column of figures appears on the horizon, snaking down an embankment in the glittering morning light. Knowing she couldn't read it at the moment, she tucked the volume into one of her own saddlebags and spurred her borrowed mount ahead to keep up with the moving column. It is no strange sight to meet columns of foreign tourist vehicles hugging and tugging through the pass in search of the real Africa. Long columns of vehicles were seen snaking through the moonlit desert towards the border, after repeated salvoes that lit up the horizon with flashes of fire. The real question is how on earth they have got so many busy and placid people so utterly disillusioned with the political process that they are marching in columns thousands deep through the streets of the capital. The massed columns of camouflaged vehicles threw up clouds of desert sand as far as the eye could see as they fanned out across the vast featureless landscape. There's a long column of tanks returning from a day in the capital. During a lull in the fighting, some of the Russians tried to wave down a column of armored vehicles using white flags, but they were ignored. I was led to believe from the news stories that the fighters were not charging into tank columns with bomb belts, but using some intelligent and extremely effective guerilla tactics. And we saw one brave young man defy a column of tanks. Hurriedly, he moved to the front of the column where Faulkner was walking. There are 500 kids within these walls, but it's calm and quiet even when columns of pupils move from one activity to another. He signaled the tank column, and the accompanying infantry carriers, to stop. An assault jeep quickly zoomed ahead of the rest of the moving column, three gunmen disembarking and running forward. In these conflicts, fast-moving tank columns had performed great feats; the more armour intensive the operation, the more impressive the results had been. Synonyms line, file, queue, procession, rank, row, string, chain, train, trail, progression, succession, cavalcade, parade, motorcade, carcade, cortège, convoy 3.1Military A narrow-fronted deep formation of troops in successive lines. 〔军〕纵队（队形） a column of 300 to 400 troops Example sentencesExamples While settlers routinely carry weapons, they displayed none when the columns of soldiers and police marched into their communities. Targets of opportunity, including a column of marching troops, were attacked. Another column of soldiers marched out of the gate, and lined the quay, weapons ready. The artillery and mounted horse holders remained in the center of the square between two additional columns of troops advancing on the formation's east and west flanks. His portrayals always feature them as masses of men, either moving in columns or lying in exhausted heaps. 3.2 A military force or convoy of ships. Moran had commanded a column in the war he organized his column for the coming march Example sentencesExamples Most assaults were directed against U.S. military convoys, columns, or checkpoints. Early yesterday a column of armoured vehicles moved into the outskirts in a manoeuvre designed to draw out rebels and provide fresh targets for the air power and artillery. The general commandeered the entire column and Cooper found himself deploying this massive force for action. The Dutch left Yogjakarta and I heard that the general who led out that military column from Yogja died of apoplexy on the way - it was too much for him. This column came into contact with Govt forces at Gutierrez, approx 75 km south of Bogota, and in the ensuing firefights the army lost 37 men. About 3,000 soldiers will take part in the review, including nine columns of infantry, two columns of armoured vehicles, helicopters and a military band. They were to protect the column against enemy troops at close range who were armed with satchel and pole charges, bazookas and bangalore torpedoes. The RAF attacked the retreating Turkish columns, and helped force the Turks back to the Jordan. Each brigade was made up of four small battalions and each battalion was organized into two columns. The French were handicapped by their lack of artillery and cavalry, which had ensured the success of the column elsewhere. Forming two columns, three mounted platoons of the 26th Cavalry set out for Morong. The massive French cavalry charge was met by a storm of English arrows, as a result of which the cavalry fled back through the front columns of the French infantry. We crossed the line of departure at daybreak in formation as a column of platoons. The general commanding the advance tank column was persuaded of the need to divert resources to our assistance. He criticised France's reliance on the Maginot Line for defence against Germany and called for the formation of mechanised armoured columns. However, the Panzer Regiment destroyed a motorized column and an artillery battery before the French could withdraw. He then made the unwise decision to divide his force into three columns, he himself commanding one. As the corps entered Belgium, each division planned to move a covering force in advance of its column to seize key objectives assigned for each day. The US government was determined to force them back on their reservations, and three army columns were dispatched to do this job by 1876. A corps column on a single road without its wagon trains could occupy 5 to 10 miles of road and up to 15 miles with its wagon trains. Synonyms line, file, queue, procession, rank, row, string, chain, train, trail, progression, succession, cavalcade, parade, motorcade, carcade, cortège, convoy Derivatives columnar adjective kəˈlʌmnəkəˈləmnər 1Resembling an upright pillar or column. a phalanx of long, columnar crystals Example sentencesExamples the baobab tree trunk, massive and columnar and reaching towards the sky The Hot Spring's design is about function as well as good looks - although its columnar shape takes up minimal space, its spiral form ensures maximum surface area for heat output. Suddenly the path crosses a tableland of rock to a deep inlet where the sea surges into the first of the two arches - a headland of columnar basalt with a sea cave that has eroded right through the rock like a tunnel. In their columnar form, these former poems have retroactively come to represent skyscrapers or apartment high-rises. a columnar database rows are converted to columnar format 2(of figures or other information) arranged vertically. columned adjective ˈkɒləmdˈkɑləmd often in combination a four-columned portico Example sentencesExamples The columned lobby which doubles as the main office, spells opulence. From the outside, with its enormous windows and columned entrance, the hotel is most impressive. Flowing gowns with side-splits reveal slim-line trousers and overtly high necks have dangerously low backs, whilst knitted snoods and jumpers are layered over strapless columned dresses. He took a picture of it, though, that haunted me for years - a crumbling, columned building, hung about with Spanish moss. Lining one side of the Forum are stone Medusa faces with eyes that still bedevil the onlooker, whilst at the far end, under a columned portico, the remains of a Roman bar recall present-day cafes in Florentine or Venetian piazzas. Origin Late Middle English: partly from Old French columpne, reinforced by its source, Latin columna 'pillar'. Rhymes olm, solemn Definition of column in US English: column nounˈkäləmˈkɑləm 1An upright pillar, typically cylindrical and made of stone or concrete, supporting an entablature, arch, or other structure or standing alone as a monument. 柱，圆柱（尤指用以支撑拱形或其他建筑结构，或独立作为纪念碑的石柱或混凝土柱） Example sentencesExamples Inside, the handsome structure with cast iron columns and jack arches was cleaned and repaired. It is supported by wood columns and creates a passageway that lets in fresh air and sunlight but blocks inclement weather. Cardboard tubes acting as structural columns support the roof panels around the perimeter. Mirrors covered the side walls, and there were four columns supporting the structure next to them. The stage is oval in plan, behind a proscenium arch, flanked by paired piers and columns that support a parted impediment. Tension gives the thin strips their form and causes them to retain their locations on the cylindrical concrete columns that support the parking slab and roof. The station's main entrance is characterized by three elegant arches that are supported on huge Ionic columns. In the centrally focused pantheon of the original bank building, the round dome was supported by interior Ionic columns. The tower was built of massive columns, great white pillars, supported by beams and buttresses. The room was rectangular, and there were murals of columns supporting Gothic arches on the walls within. In the Patio de los Leones, over one hundred slender marble columns support ornate arches, shielding the rather chubby marble lions. They stood in a hallway with huge stone columns supporting the ceiling over their heads. A coin of Augustus shows what is presumably a square superstructure, with arches on the two faces in view, pilasters or columns, and an entablature but no roof. It is partnered by a stepped gallery running back under the cloister arcade, with round columns beneath those supporting the arches above. Roof overhangs are supported by steel columns also encased in stone. In structural terms, long and slender reinforced-concrete columns support the floors in an unobtrusive 8.4m grid. Each pillar has four bronze columns supporting American eagles that hold a victory laurel. The main idea is a big roof supported on only four columns. At this ripe old age, the tree's enormous limbs are supported by steel columns and cables. But all seem to have porches supported by columns of cobblestone brick, or stucco. Synonyms pillar, post, pole, support, upright, vertical, baluster, pier, pile, piling, pilaster, stanchion, standard, prop, buttress 1.1 A vertical, roughly cylindrical thing. 柱状物 a great column of smoke 巨大的烟柱。 Example sentencesExamples Meanwhile the steering column only has height adjustment. His cropping of a Maine forest into a grid of vertical pine trunk columns and horizontal branches creates a kind of natural cityscape. The north face incorporates three openings framed by massive stone columns, and the east and west faces each have a single door. As a result the water welled up, forming a vertical column through the sandstone. She looked out, seeing the dark columns of smoke in the distance. She turned her head north and saw a column of gray smoke, rising quickly, then blowing away. Now you can see the columns of smoke all over the city. At first sight I saw small columns of smoke coming from the street. A shoal formed by several fish species filled the water column from the coral almost to the surface. The car doorframe was damaged and the covering around the steering column had been removed. The chill air was calm and utterly still, columns of smoke rising vertically from the city's chimneys, reaching toward the drab overcast. We saw columns of smoke from heavy shells and realised the conflict had taken a turn for the worse. She begins with two vertical columns of small squares of pale ocher watercolor laid down dark to light in a grid running four marks across and eight down. The cards are sorted by artist, in configurations of vertical columns, horizontal bands, rectangles and T-shapes. On the left edge is a thin column of vertical multicolored stripes divided roughly into thirds horizontally. Thick columns of boiling brown smoke are pluming from somewhere among the tower blocks in the centre. We cannot afford to leave the matter aside until the next column of smoke clouds the horizon and yet more carnage is upon us. Throughout the rest of the garden, raised beds with low stone columns at the corners form living tapestries of plants in complementary colors. He nodded to himself incessantly as if his spinal column had been magically replaced with a spring. 1.2 An upright shaft forming part of a machine and typically used for controlling it. （机器中的）控制杆（或轴）；操纵杆（或轴） a Spitfire control column 喷火式战斗机操纵杆。 Example sentencesExamples It enables pilots to use the avionics, radar and weapons systems without having to remove their hands from the control column or the throttle. Flashing down the runway, I gently pull back on my control column. It was in Newfoundland that he took his first aerial photographs - using his knees to hold the control column and manhandling a large plate camera over the aircraft's side. Circling just outside the target area, I flew with one hand on the control column and the fingers of the other hand on the landing light switches. The aircraft is controlled with the aid of a central control column. All weapons were manually charged and electrically fired by solenoid units that were activated by the two firing switches located on the pilot's control column. An aileron booster system used the main system hydraulic pressure to supplement the pilot's pressure on the control column. The control column gathers the quality procedures and the quality records recommended for management review. This rigid, high-strength, shock-resisting material is used for diesel crankshafts, gears and machine columns. The pitch continued to increase despite the forward movement of the control column. By keeping my head just above the control column, I could keep my eyes out of the glare and onto the gyrations of the instrument panel's flight indicator. The machines are controlled from a column of six isolating switches and two stop buttons. No more skittish landings because of sluggish control columns. Before anyone knew what was what, the device, which was set on cutter, had gone off, making three wavy holes through the edge of the column where the controls had been. The controls on the centre column for the dual-zone climate control, DVD-Audio system, and optional GPS are well laid out and easy to locate at touch. He takes the control column to save his native clan from all the dangers, to destroy all the enemies himself, and to survive where nobody else could. 2A vertical division of a page or text. （页或正文的）直栏 Example sentencesExamples One specific comment, though, is that you should change the color of the lettering in the left-hand column on the main page. Chambers English Dictionary of 1872 included an eight page appendix of Americanisms printed in small type, three columns to a page. Weights are listed for each character in the right-hand column of table 1. This list took up two columns on the page, though, and it was only a matter of time before something caught her eye. On the verso where the poem concludes the page is divided into two columns with this hemistich division. You'll notice a new map of the US at the top of the right-hand column of this page. It is a large volume of about one thousand pages of text in double columns. The one difference is that I'm displaying the last few movies I've seen (with ratings) on the front page in the main column. The headline suggests an enormous mouthful to bite off in five columns ' worth of text, but that didn't hold us back in a spring issue 58 years ago. At the bottom of the right-hand column of this page, I've added links to some fine little organisations who need your help in their brave fight against the forces of darkness. The editor provided a brief general introduction, a plain text in double columns per page, and a glossary at the end. The first is at the bottom of the right-hand column under the heading " Borrowing by a Limited Partnership". In appearance it is very like a modern newspaper, though slightly worse printed, and with only five columns on the page. Its gray trout page and long vertical columns resemble newspapers of the 1800s. If you would like to help, please contact me via the e-mail link at the bottom of the left column on my home page. Actually, it had no pagination, and I could see right away that it was in black letter, two columns to a page. The volume ends with a magnificent mass of notes, some ninety-four pages of double columns and smaller print. As you saw when first examining the layout, there are basic divisions already in the page: Header, columns, and footer. The right page is occupied by the text (in two columns, with German on the left and French on the right). The subject of most newspaper column inches wasn't even a person. 2.1 A vertical arrangement of figures or other information. （数字或其他资料的）列；纵行 Example sentencesExamples Carefully crafted summary reports, with columns of figures, spreadsheets, and graphs appended at the end, take time to digest and appreciate. Such men found commerce more congenial than industry, and went into the expanding banking sector where the sweat and gore of the factory floor and labour relations were sterilized into columns of figures. In this case, we should put at the intersections between the rows and columns the figures corresponding to the required initial levels of preceding themes or subjects. A matrix is a rectangular array of symbols, usually numbers, neatly arranged in columns and rows. Users are instructed in even the most basic details, such as how to move from one worksheet to another within a workbook, how to select multiple cells, rows or columns, and so on. Your program uses objects, and those objects are automatically transformed into rows, columns and tables in a relational database. Imagine a square table consisting of 111 columns and 111 rows. The third and fourth columns are the corresponding figures for the CLP Budget of 1998 / 99. For each faculty member, the following information was requested with each point of information being a column of a table. The left column contains information about the visual appearance, or form, of writing produced. In the initial view the times of five trains will be displayed next to each other, with each column listing information about a single train. I feel oppressed and confused by neat columns of figures marching down the page or screen, disoriented by colour-coded graphs and the arcane jargon of statistical analysis. You stare at a column of financial figures and your heart sings songs of how woeful it is to be locked up on such a lovely day. The memory cell may be implemented in an array of cells to perform a method of creating a reverse breakdown condition in an array of memory cells arranged in columns and rows in the array. The first column of figures represents the percentage of half days lost through unauthorised absence. It remains the only significant figure in the debit column of the 17th Commonwealth Games. The higher the pixel resolution (the more rows and columns of pixels), the more information can be displayed. The base portions are disposed in a matrix arrangement having rows and columns. If it's not unethical corporate moles and scratching through somebody else's rubbish, it's scratching through long columns of your own figures in the hope of an elusive clue. She found a piece of paper with a list of names on one column, and a list of figures on the next column. 2.2 A section of a newspaper or magazine regularly devoted to a particular subject or written by a particular person. （报刊的）栏；专栏 Example sentencesExamples Our gossip columns are filled not with movie stars, but sporting celebrities. He also began writing columns in magazines and newspapers, most recently in Metro, a daily newspaper distributed without charge in railway stations and other public places. Well, it was a pity she didn't run the gossip column. His syndicated column appears in 150 newspapers in some thirty countries. Returning to Alaska he wrote a regular column for an Anchorage newspaper and also worked on sculpting. Both gentlemen above also raise another issue that merits airing in today's column. Barely had the ink dried on last week's column than the phone rang. He trained as a singer and wrote a weekly newspaper column on the social scene. Both rowers write regular newspaper columns and both are frequently contacted by the media for comment on a wide range of topics. His syndicated column appears in newspapers across the country. My thanks to the Dallas Morning News for accepting a guest column on the subject. He has been a sports journalist, writing a regular column for a newspaper and a magazine. In fact there are very good reasons why unread - or more or less unreadable - art critics continue to write regular columns for reputable newspapers. Offer to write a weekly advice column in your local paper. He writes a weekly column for the Guardian newspaper. So we asked the Martens to share their wisdom, stories and innovations with us through a regular monthly column. Last year he devoted just three of his weekly syndicated newspaper columns to the subject. He never thought a silly gossip column in a school paper could be so influential. So this week's column is devoted to one of the great men of New Zealand sport. Tracy has also written a syndicated weekly column since March of 1986. Synonyms article, piece, piece of writing, item, story, report, account, write-up, feature, essay, composition, study, review, criticism, critique, notice, commentary, editorial, leader 3One or more lines of people or vehicles moving in the same direction. （人或交通工具的）队；行 a column of tanks moved northwest 一队坦克向西北行进。 we walked in a column 我们列队步行。 Example sentencesExamples During a lull in the fighting, some of the Russians tried to wave down a column of armored vehicles using white flags, but they were ignored. An assault jeep quickly zoomed ahead of the rest of the moving column, three gunmen disembarking and running forward. The real question is how on earth they have got so many busy and placid people so utterly disillusioned with the political process that they are marching in columns thousands deep through the streets of the capital. In these conflicts, fast-moving tank columns had performed great feats; the more armour intensive the operation, the more impressive the results had been. But then again, maybe that's realistic - you just can't fit a column of 10 tanks down the average single-lane dirt road. Soon a small column of figures appears on the horizon, snaking down an embankment in the glittering morning light. A silent column of peace protesters marched to a York market. The massed columns of camouflaged vehicles threw up clouds of desert sand as far as the eye could see as they fanned out across the vast featureless landscape. I was led to believe from the news stories that the fighters were not charging into tank columns with bomb belts, but using some intelligent and extremely effective guerilla tactics. And we saw one brave young man defy a column of tanks. It is no strange sight to meet columns of foreign tourist vehicles hugging and tugging through the pass in search of the real Africa. There's a long column of tanks returning from a day in the capital. Knowing she couldn't read it at the moment, she tucked the volume into one of her own saddlebags and spurred her borrowed mount ahead to keep up with the moving column. He signaled the tank column, and the accompanying infantry carriers, to stop. Hurriedly, he moved to the front of the column where Faulkner was walking. There are 500 kids within these walls, but it's calm and quiet even when columns of pupils move from one activity to another. A long column of cars and motorcycles drove through the city, honking horns and waving national flags. Long columns of vehicles were seen snaking through the moonlit desert towards the border, after repeated salvoes that lit up the horizon with flashes of fire. The ten baggage carts carrying the tents were the only wheeled vehicles in the column. Synonyms line, file, queue, procession, rank, row, string, chain, train, trail, progression, succession, cavalcade, parade, motorcade, carcade, cortège, convoy 3.1Military A narrow-fronted deep formation of troops in successive lines. 〔军〕纵队（队形） Example sentencesExamples Targets of opportunity, including a column of marching troops, were attacked. The artillery and mounted horse holders remained in the center of the square between two additional columns of troops advancing on the formation's east and west flanks. While settlers routinely carry weapons, they displayed none when the columns of soldiers and police marched into their communities. Another column of soldiers marched out of the gate, and lined the quay, weapons ready. His portrayals always feature them as masses of men, either moving in columns or lying in exhausted heaps. 3.2 A military force or convoy of ships. Example sentencesExamples The general commanding the advance tank column was persuaded of the need to divert resources to our assistance. About 3,000 soldiers will take part in the review, including nine columns of infantry, two columns of armoured vehicles, helicopters and a military band. The RAF attacked the retreating Turkish columns, and helped force the Turks back to the Jordan. Most assaults were directed against U.S. military convoys, columns, or checkpoints. A corps column on a single road without its wagon trains could occupy 5 to 10 miles of road and up to 15 miles with its wagon trains. As the corps entered Belgium, each division planned to move a covering force in advance of its column to seize key objectives assigned for each day. Early yesterday a column of armoured vehicles moved into the outskirts in a manoeuvre designed to draw out rebels and provide fresh targets for the air power and artillery. They were to protect the column against enemy troops at close range who were armed with satchel and pole charges, bazookas and bangalore torpedoes. Forming two columns, three mounted platoons of the 26th Cavalry set out for Morong. The general commandeered the entire column and Cooper found himself deploying this massive force for action. This column came into contact with Govt forces at Gutierrez, approx 75 km south of Bogota, and in the ensuing firefights the army lost 37 men. The Dutch left Yogjakarta and I heard that the general who led out that military column from Yogja died of apoplexy on the way - it was too much for him. The French were handicapped by their lack of artillery and cavalry, which had ensured the success of the column elsewhere. The massive French cavalry charge was met by a storm of English arrows, as a result of which the cavalry fled back through the front columns of the French infantry. Each brigade was made up of four small battalions and each battalion was organized into two columns. He criticised France's reliance on the Maginot Line for defence against Germany and called for the formation of mechanised armoured columns. The US government was determined to force them back on their reservations, and three army columns were dispatched to do this job by 1876. We crossed the line of departure at daybreak in formation as a column of platoons. However, the Panzer Regiment destroyed a motorized column and an artillery battery before the French could withdraw. He then made the unwise decision to divide his force into three columns, he himself commanding one. Synonyms line, file, queue, procession, rank, row, string, chain, train, trail, progression, succession, cavalcade, parade, motorcade, carcade, cortège, convoy Origin Late Middle English: partly from Old French columpne, reinforced by its source, Latin columna ‘pillar’.
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