English to Persian Dictionary Online
Definition of "column"

column

Từ điển Collocation

column noun

¹ tall stone post

ADJ. huge, tall | fluted colonnades of fluted Doric columns | classical | Corinthian, Doric, Ionic

COLUMN + VERB support sth The roof is supported by four huge columns.

² piece of writing in a newspaper

ADJ. regular He has a regular column in a weekly newspaper. | daily, weekly, etc. | newspaper | agony, correspondence, death, editorial, financial, gossip, leader, letters, lonely hearts (= with advertisements for a new lover or friend), obituary, personal, travel

VERB + COLUMN have, write | syndicate

COLUMN + NOUN inches So many column inches are devoted to film stars.

PREP. in a/the ~ She saw his name in an obituary column. | ~ about/on a weekly column on films showing in London

³ long line of people, vehicles, etc.

ADJ. huge, long | armoured, tank | marching

PREP. in ~s to march in columns | ~ of a column of troops

PHRASES the head of the column

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Từ điển WordNet

n.

• a line of (usually military) units following one after another
• 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; chromatography column
• a linear array of numbers one above another
• anything tall and relatively thin that approximates the shape of a column or tower; tower, pillar

  the test tube held a column of white powder

  a tower of dust rose above the horizon

  a thin pillar of smoke betrayed their campsite

• an article giving opinions or perspectives; editorial, newspaper column
• a vertical cylindrical structure standing alone and not supporting anything (such as a monument); pillar
• (architeture) a tall cylindrical vertical upright and used to support a structure; pillar

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Microsoft Computer Dictionary

n. 1. A series of items arranged vertically within some type of framework—for example, a continuous series of cells running from top to bottom in a spreadsheet, a set of lines of specified width on a printed page, a vertical line of pixels on a video screen, or a set of values aligned vertically in a table or matrix. Compare row. 2. In a relational database management system, the name for an attribute. The collection of column values that form the description of a particular entity is called a tuple or row. A column is equivalent to a field in a record in a nonrelational file system. See also entity, field (definition 1), row, table (definition 2).

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English Synonym and Antonym Dictionary

columns
syn.: cylinder division monument part pillar section tower