column
栏目,专栏,列,柱子
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- : Architecture. a rigid, relatively slender, upright support, composed of relatively few pieces.a decorative pillar, most often composed of stone and typically having a cylindrical or polygonal shaft with a capital and usually a base.
- : any columnlike object, mass, or formation: a column of smoke.
- : a vertical row or list: Add this column of figures.
- : a vertical arrangement on a page of horizontal lines of type, usually typographically justified: There are three columns on this page.
- : a regular feature or series of articles in a newspaper, magazine, or the like, usually having a readily identifiable heading and the byline of the writer or editor, that reports or comments upon a particular field of interest, as politics, theater, or etiquette, or which may contain letters from readers, answers to readers' queries, etc.
- : a long, narrow formation of troops in which there are more members in line in the direction of movement than at right angles to the direction.
- : a formation of ships in single file.
- : Botany. a columnlike structure in an orchid flower, composed of the united stamens and style.
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Examples
In the figure below, the column on the left is a list of all pages.
In a recent newspaper column, Josefowitz wrote about the pandemic affording free time to tackle procrastinated tasks.
When placed on the column, each ring slid down to its correct position, if possible.
A pressure sensor on a tag attached to a shark’s fin recorded the animal’s swimming depth at one-second intervals as the shark moved up and down in the water column.
At the end of my five-day experiment, I created a spreadsheet of my results, with each group getting its own column.
Sometimes a column has the economy and rhythm of a short story.
Later that night, that same black-and-red banner would be seen again—in the column of marchers chanting for dead cops.
He branded it a fifth-column invasion into popular culture, normalizing radical, even communist ambitions.
My editor called and said, “Do a column on this Lena Dunham flap!”
His sign was the last one people saw as the column of marchers passed them, it read, “Am I next?”
My two eyes haven't quite the same focal length and this often puts me out of the straight with a column of figures.
The very first chords which Mademoiselle Reisz struck upon the piano sent a keen tremor down Mrs. Pontellier's spinal .