| 单词 | column |
| 释义 | column (once / 107 pages) 1n 2n Someone who writes a column for a newspaper provides an article that expresses his or her viewpoint on a regular basis, such as a column about local politics which appears in the Sunday edition. If your boss says, “I’m going to give you a column!” you may be getting a regular writing gig, or you may be getting a large pillar typically used to support a building. (You’ll know which it is when you see it.)Column also refers to something that resembles a pillar or stack, such as a column of smoke, or columns of numbers that must be added. Column also describes lines of text that form long rectangles on a page, separated by a thin line of space. WORD FAMILYcolumn: columnar, columniation, columnist, columnlike, columns+/columniation: columniations/columnist: columnists USAGE EXAMPLESNow I am sure that plenty of you right now are thinking: What an idiotic column. Wall Street Journal(Jan 02, 2017) And yes, Mark, this annual dinner column is fake news, but please don’t filter it! New York Times(Jan 02, 2017) There is a sumptuous mosaic ceiling, with marble columns and copper clay friezes. BBC(Jan 02, 2017) 1 1n a line of units following one after another Hyper Indian file, file, single file a line of persons or things ranged one behind the other 2n a vertical array of numbers or other information he added a column of numbers Hyper array an orderly arrangement 3n a vertical cylindrical structure standing alone and not supporting anything (such as a monument) Syn|Exp|Hypo|Hyper pillar Washington Monument a stone obelisk built in Washington in 1884 to honor George Washington; 555 feet tall obelisk a stone pillar having a rectangular cross section tapering towards a pyramidal top totem polea tribal emblem consisting of a pillar carved and painted with totemic figures; erected by Indian tribes of the northwest Pacific coast construction, structure a thing constructed; a complex entity constructed of many parts 4n (architecture) a tall vertical cylindrical structure standing upright and used to support a structure Syn|Hypo|Hyper pillar atlas, telamon a figure of a man used as a supporting column caryatida supporting column carved in the shape of a person newelthe central pillar of a circular staircase pilastera rectangular column that usually projects about a third of its width from the wall to which it is attached pile, piling, spile, stilta column of wood or steel or concrete that is driven into the ground to provide support for a structure support columna column that supports a heavy weight lally, lally columnsupport column consisting of a steel cylinder filled with concrete sheath pile, sheet pile, sheet pilinga pile in a row of piles driven side by side to retain earth or prevent seepage upright, vertical a vertical structural member as a post or stake 5n anything that approximates the shape of a column or tower the test tube held a column of white powder Syn|Hypo|Hyper pillar, tower columella a small column (or structure resembling a column) that is a part of a plant or animal hoodoo(geology) a column of weathered and unusually shaped rock form, shape the spatial arrangement of something as distinct from its substance 6n any tubular or pillar-like supporting structure in the body Hyper skeletal structure any structure created by the skeleton of an organism 7n a page or text that is vertically divided the newspaper devoted several columns to the subject the bookkeeper used pages that were divided into columns Hyper text, textual matter the words of something written 8n 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 2Syn|Hyper chromatography column tube, tubing conduit consisting of a long hollow object (usually cylindrical) used to hold and conduct objects or liquids or gases n an article giving opinions or perspectives Syn|Hypo|Hyper editorial, newspaper column agony column a newspaper column devoted to personal problems article nonfictional prose forming an independent part of a publication |
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