Word Finder - column

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A solid upright structure designed usually to support a larger structure above it, such as a roof or horizontal beam, but sometimes for decoration.

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A vertical line of entries in a table, usually read from top to bottom.

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A body of troops or army vehicles, usually strung out along a road.

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A body of text meant to be read line by line, especially in printed material that has multiple adjacent such on a single page.

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It was too hard to read the text across the whole page, so I split it into two columns.

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A unit of width, especially of advertisements, in a periodical, equivalent to the width of a usual column of text.

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Each column inch costs $300 a week; this ad is four columns by three inches, so will run $3600 a week.

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(by extension) A recurring feature in a periodical, especially an opinion piece, especially by a single author or small rotating group of authors, or on a single theme.

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His initial foray into print media was as the author of a weekly column in his elementary-school newspaper.

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Something having similar vertical form or structure to the things mentioned above, such as a spinal column.

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The gynostemium

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(chemistry) An object used to separate the different components of a liquid or to purify chemical compounds.

The head of the column had already descended into the hollow.

He touched his horse and having called Miloradovich, the commander of the column, gave him the order to advance.

The column relating to permanent grass in Table IV.

The results of this method are given in column III.

The column (b) is generally long, slender and stalklike (hydrocaulus).

The Empress Column is a stalagmite 35 ft.

It gives the real values in one column and tenth parts in another column of each of the benefices in the archdeaconry of Lothian.

Three monuments remain to mark the line of the Spina, around which the chariots whirled; an Egyptian obelisk of Thothmes III., on a pedestal covered with bas-reliefs representing Theodosius I., the empress Galla, and his sons Arcadius and Honorius, presiding at scenes in the Hippodrome; the triple serpent column, which stood originally at Delphi, to commemorate the victory of Plataea 479 B.C.; a lofty pile of masonry, built in the form of an obelisk, and once covered with plates of gilded bronze.

These exploits were, by the order of Catherine, commemorated by a triumphal column, crowned with naval trophies, erected at Tsarskoe Selo.

He afterwards served in the Zulu war with Wood's column.

The column slowly continued its march, suffering heavily in horses, but otherwise unharmed.

The French column is similar in action.

In the cathedral also there is a bronze column 15 ft.

The Bhonsla raja forfeited Orissa to the English, who had already occupied it with a flying column, and Berar to the nizam, who gained a fresh addition by every act of complaisance to the British government.

Having completed (when consul in 338 B.C.) the subjugation of Latium, which with Campania had revolted against Rome, he was honoured by a triumph, and a column was erected to him in the Forum.

Perhaps a column, perhaps a strong force, might have pushed straight on to Arsiero and beyond; and if so, it might have gone hard with the Italians.

Farther to the left, Bertrand's (IV.) corps was held back to connect with Ney, who had then reached Weissig with the head of his column.

Lauriston, at the head of the column, had been sharply engaged on the 19th, but had spent the 20th in calculated inaction.

Arrhenius, by reasoning similar to that of section 5, applied to an osmotic cell supporting a column of solution by osmotic pressure, deduced the relation between the osmotic pressure P at the bottom of the column and the vapour-pressure p" of the solution at the top, viz.

The values of the specific heat in the next column are calculated for a constant pressure equal to that of saturation by formula (16) to illustrate the increase of the specific heat with rise of pressure.

The values of the saturation-pressure given in the last column are calculated by formula (25), which agrees with Regnault's observations better than his own empirical formulae.

At Magersfontein, early in December 1899, he completely repulsed a general attack made upon his position, and thereby checked for two months the northward advance of the British column.

There are still standing nine columns of the south side and two of the north of the peristyle, and one of the antae and an inner column of the pronaos.

After 1666 there was no epidemic of plague in London or any part of England, though sporadic cases appear in bills of mortality up to 1679; and a column filled up with " o " was left till 1703, when it finally disappeared.

The left-hand column was unmolested by the troops of Buongiovanni's VII.

The right-hand column, which had cut in behind the Italian 43rd Div., was making the task of the Austrian 50th comparatively easy, and brushing aside the spasmodic opposition of such small detachments as came in its way.

This notochord represents the persistent primordial skeletal axis which, in the higher Craniata (though not so in the lower), gives way by substitution to the segmented vertebral column.

Of the many calculations set forth in these valuable tables there is only room here to refer to the "afterlifetime" for such countries as it is available, which is quoted in the last column of Table VII.

The many and extraordinary monuments of aqueous energy include massive columns wrenched from their place in the ceiling and prostrate on the floor; the Hollow Column, 40 ft.

The double column, named from Professors Henry and Baird, is made of two fluted pillars side by side, the one 25 and the other 60 ft.

Among the latter is the stately Luisenplatz, on which are the house of parliament, the old palace and the post office, and in the centre of which is a column surmounted by the statue of the grandduke Louis I., the founder of the new town.

This was accomplished by the construction of cast-iron beds, one for each separate page (not column, as in Applegath's machine).

Google AdWords are the small ads down the right-hand column of a page of Google search results.

In the later, we've devoted a bi-monthly column to the reality TV most notables and lesser publicized personalities.

As an isolated abnormality, spina bifida is caused by the combination of genetic factors and environmental influences that bring about malformation of the spine and spinal column.

In the centre, the defective arrangements of the allied staff had delayed the 4th column (Kolowrat), the line of march of which was crossed by Liechtenstein's cavalry moving in the opposite direction.

The delay had, however, opened a gap between Kolowrat and the 3rd column on his left; and towards this gap, and the denuded Pratzen plateau, Napoleon sent forward St Hilaire's division of Soult's corps for the decisive attack.

St Hilaire's (the right centre) division was fiercely engaged by Kolowrat's column, General Miloradovich opposed the left centre attack under Vandamme, but the French leaders were two of the best fighting generals in their army.

The rearmost troops of the Russian 2nd column, not yet committed to the fight on the Goldbach, made a bold counter stroke against St Hilaire's right flank, but were repulsed, and Soult now turned to relieve the pressure on Davout by attacking Sokolnitz.

Like most Slavonic towns, it contains several large squares, the chief of which is adorned with a trinity column, 115 ft.

On the Fuglenaes or Birds' Cape, which protects the harbour on the north, there stands a column with an inscription in Norse and Latin, stating that Hammerfest was one of the stations of the XII.

Here too was placed the curious column, with many flutes and an Ionic capital, on which stood the colossal sphinx, dedicated by the Naxians, that has been pieced together and placed in the museum.

He took part in Halleck's advance on Corinth, Mississippi, and at the close of 1862 led the Mississippi column in the first Vicksburg campaign.

The British force, consisting of the second division and Wood's column, numbered in all 4200 Europeans and some 1000 natives.

On the battle-ground a tall column bears the words, " Here died Wolfe victorious on the 13th of September 1759."

On a parapet at the rear of each chamber a single slender Ionic column between two antae supported an Ionic entablature.

In architecture, the term is used to express the measure of the lower part of the shaft of a column.

He is said also to have brought the first sun-dial from Catana to Rome, where it was set up on a column in the forum.

It ascends the tube, the substance is rapidly volatilized, and the mercury column is depressed; this depression is read off.

Two typical forms are in use; in one a liquid is prepared in which the crystal freely swims, the density of the liquid being ascertained by the pycnometer or other methods; in the other a liquid of variable density, the so-called "diffusion column," is prepared, and observation is made of the level at which the particle comes to rest.