[1] : The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48

column \col"umn\, n. l. columna, fr. columen, culmen, fr.
   cellere used only in comp., akin to e. excel, and prob. to
   holm. see holm, and cf. colonel.
   1. arch. a kind of pillar; a cylindrical or polygonal
      support for a roof, ceiling, statue, etc., somewhat
      ornamented, and usually composed of base, shaft, and
      capital. see order.
      1913 webster

   2. anything resembling, in form or position, a column in
      architecture; an upright body or mass; a shaft or obelisk;
      as, a column of air, of water, of mercury, etc.; the
      column vend^ome; the spinal column.
      1913 webster

   3. mil.
      a a body of troops formed in ranks, one behind the
          other; -- contradistinguished from line. compare
          ploy, and deploy.
      b a small army.
          1913 webster

   4. naut. a number of ships so arranged as to follow one
      another in single or double file or in squadrons; -- in
      distinction from "line", where they are side by side.
      1913 webster

   5. print. a perpendicular set of lines, not extending
      across the page, and separated from other matter by a rule
      or blank space; as, a column in a newspaper.
      1913 webster

   6. arith. a perpendicular line of figures.
      1913 webster

   7. bot. the body formed by the union of the stamens in the
      mallow family, or of the stamens and pistil in the
      orchids.
      1913 webster

   8. print. one of a series of articles written in a
      periodical, usually under the same title and at regular
      intervals; it may be written and signed by one or more
      authors, or may appear pseudonymously or anonymously, as
      an editorial column. "safire's weekly column on language
      in the new york times is usually more interesting and
      probably more accurate than his political column." --p.
      cassidy
      pjc

   attached column. see under attach, v. t.

   clustered column. see under cluster, v. t.

   column rule, a thin strip of brass separating columns of
      type in the form, and making a line between them in
      printing.
      1913 webster
see also:
holm colonel order line ploy deploy 
attached column attach clustered column cluster column rule 

[2] : WordNet (r) 2.0

column
     n 1: a line of usually military units following one after
          another
     2: 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 syn: chromatography
        column
     3: a linear array of numbers one above another
     4: anything tall and thin approximating the shape of a column
        or tower; "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" syn: tower, pillar
     5: an article giving opinions or perspectives syn: editorial,
         newspaper column
     6: a vertical structure standing alone and not supporting
        anything as a monument or a column of air syn: pillar
     7: architeture a tall cylindrical vertical upright and used
        to support a structure syn: pillar
see also:
chromatography column tower pillar editorial newspaper column 

[3] : Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0

212 moby thesaurus words for "column":
   kp, antenna tower, arcade, arch, army, army group, article, atlas,
   baluster, balustrade, banister, barbican, barrel, barrow, base,
   battalion, battery, battle group, belfry, bell tower, bole, book,
   boundary stone, brace, brass, brigade, bust, buttress, cadre,
   cairn, campanile, caravan, caryatid, cask, cavalcade, cenotaph,
   chapter, clause, cohort, colonnade, colonnette, colossus,
   combat command, combat team, company, corps, cortege, cromlech,
   cross, cup, cupola, cyclolith, cylinder, cylindroid, dado, derrick,
   detachment, detail, die, division, dolmen, dome, dress parade,
   drum, fascicle, field army, field train, file, fire tower,
   flying column, flyover, footstalk, footstone, funeral, garrison,
   grave, gravestone, headstone, hoarstone, inscription, installment,
   jack, kitchen police, lantern, legion, lighthouse, line, livraison,
   maniple, march past, marker, martello, martello tower, mast,
   mausoleum, megalith, memento, memorial, memorial arch,
   memorial column, memorial statue, memorial stone, menhir, minaret,
   monolith, monument, motorcade, mound, mule train, necrology,
   newel-post, obelisk, obituary, observation tower, organization,
   outfit, pack train, pagoda, parade, paragraph, part, passage,
   pedestal, pedicel, peduncle, peristyle, phalanx, phrase, pier,
   pilaster, pile, piling, pillar, pinnacle, pipe, plaque, platoon,
   plinth, pole, pomp, portico, posse, post, prize, procession,
   promenade, prop, pylon, pyramid, queen-post, rank, regiment,
   reliquary, remembrance, review, ribbon, roll, roller,
   rostral column, rouleau, section, serial, shaft, shore, shrine,
   skimmington, skyscraper, socle, spire, squad, squadron, staff,
   stalk, stanchion, stand, standard, standpipe, stay, steeple, stela,
   stem, stone, stream, string, stupa, subbase, surbase, tablet,
   tactical unit, task force, telamon, television mast, testimonial,
   tomb, tombstone, tope, tour, tower, train, troop, trophy, trunk,
   tube, turret, underpinning, unit, upright, verse, volume,
   water tower, windmill tower, wing

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