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- Column - n. - 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.
- Column - n. - 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 Vendome; the spinal column.
- Column - n. - A body of troops formed in ranks, one behind the other; -- contradistinguished from line. Compare Ploy, and Deploy.
- Column - n. - A small army.
- Column - n. - 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.
- Column - n. - 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.
- Column - n. - A perpendicular line of figures.
- Column - n. - The body formed by the union of the stamens in the Mallow family, or of the stamens and pistil in the orchids.
- Columnar - a. - Formed in columns; having the form of a column or columns; like the shaft of a column.
- Columnarity - n. - The state or quality of being columnar.
- Columnated - a. - Having columns; as, columnated temples.
- Columned - a. - Having columns.
- Columniation - n. - The employment or arrangement of columns in a structure.
- Ployment - n. - The act or movement of forming a column from a line of troops on some designated subdivision; -- the opposite of deployment.
- Drum - n. - One of the cylindrical, or nearly cylindrical, blocks, of which the shaft of a column is composed; also, a vertical wall, whether circular or polygonal in plan, carrying a cupola or dome.
- Bell - n. - That part of the capital of a column included between the abacus and neck molding; also used for the naked core of nearly cylindrical shape, assumed to exist within the leafage of a capital.
- Heterocercal - a. - Having the vertebral column evidently continued into the upper lobe of the tail, which is usually longer than the lower one, as in sharks.
- Semicolumn - n. - A half column; a column bisected longitudinally, or along its axis.
- Columnar - a. - Formed in columns; having the form of a column or columns; like the shaft of a column.
- Streamer - n. - A stream or column of light shooting upward from the horizon, constituting one of the forms of the aurora borealis.
- Cimbia - n. - A fillet or band placed around the shaft of a column as if to strengthen it.
- Ploy - v. i. - To form a column from a line of troops on some designated subdivision; -- the opposite of deploy.
- Epistyle - n. - A massive piece of stone or wood laid immediately on the abacus of the capital of a column or pillar; -- now called architrave.
- Plerome - n. - The central column of parenchyma in a growing stem or root.
- Caryatid - n. - A draped female figure supporting an entablature, in the place of a column or pilaster.
- Column - n. - 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.
- Fluting - n. - Decoration by means of flutes or channels; a flute, or flutes collectively; as, the fluting of a column or pilaster; the fluting of a lady's ruffle.
- Bodkin - n. - A sharp tool, like an awl, used for picking /ut letters from a column or page in making corrections.
- Support - n. - That which maintains or preserves from being overcome, falling, yielding, sinking, giving way, or the like; subsistence; maintenance; assistance; reenforcement; as, he gave his family a good support, the support of national credit; the assaulting column had the support of a battery.
- Intercrural - a. - Between crura; -- applied especially to the interneural plates in the vertebral column of many cartilaginous fishes.
- Cathetometer - n. - An instrument for the accurate measurement of small differences of height; esp. of the differences in the height of the upper surfaces of two columns of mercury or other fluid, or of the same column at different times. It consists of a telescopic leveling apparatus (d), which slides up or down a perpendicular metallic standard very finely graduated (bb). The telescope is raised or depressed in order to sight the objects or surfaces, and the differences in vertical height are thus shown on the graduated standard.
- Spina bifida - - A congenital malformation in which the spinal column is cleft at its lower portion, and the membranes of the spinal cord project as an elastic swelling from the gap thus formed.
- Re-formation - n. - The act of forming anew; a second forming in order; as, the reformation of a column of troops into a hollow square.
- Overtone - n. - One of the harmonics faintly heard with and above a tone as it dies away, produced by some aliquot portion of the vibrating sting or column of air which yields the fundamental tone; one of the natural harmonic scale of tones, as the octave, twelfth, fifteenth, etc.; an aliquot or "partial" tone; a harmonic. See Harmonic, and Tone.
- Backbone - n. - The column of bones in the back which sustains and gives firmness to the frame; the spine; the vertebral or spinal column.
- Harmonics - n. - Secondary and less distinct tones which accompany any principal, and apparently simple, tone, as the octave, the twelfth, the fifteenth, and the seventeenth. The name is also applied to the artificial tones produced by a string or column of air, when the impulse given to it suffices only to make a part of the string or column vibrate; overtones.
- Coccyx - n. - The end of the vertebral column beyond the sacrum in man and tailless monkeys. It is composed of several vertebrae more or less consolidated.
- Sacrovertebral - a. - Of or pertaining to the sacrum and that part of the vertebral column immediately anterior to it; as, the sacrovertebral angle.
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- H5982 עַמּוּד - 5982 עַמּוּד - עַמּוּד - - ʻammûwd - am-mood' - or עַמֻּד; from עָמַד; a column (as standing); also a stand, i.e. platform; [idiom] apiece, pillar. - Noun Masculine - heb
- H134 אֶדֶן - 134 אֶדֶן - אֶדֶן - - ʼeden - eh'-den - from the same as אָדוֹן (in the sense of strength); a basis (of a building, a column, etc.); foundation, socket. - Noun Masculine - heb
- H547 אֹמְנָה - 547 אֹמְנָה - אֹמְנָה - - ʼômᵉnâh - om-me-naw' - feminine active participle of אֹמֶן (in the original sense of supporting); a column; pillar. - Noun Feminine - heb
- H3730 כַּפְתֹּר - 3730 כַּפְתֹּר - כַּפְתֹּר - - kaphtôr - kaf-tore' - or (Amos 9:1) כַּפְתּוֹר; probably from an unused root meaning to encircle; a chaplet; but used only in an architectonic sense, i.e. the capital of acolumn, or a wreath-like button or disk on the candelabrum; knop, (upper) lintel. - Noun Masculine - heb
- H3805 כֹתֶרֶת - 3805 כֹתֶרֶת - כֹתֶרֶת - - kôthereth - ko-theh'-reth - feminine active participle of כָּתַר; the capital of a column; chapiter. - Noun Feminine - heb
- H4676 מַצֵּבָה - 4676 מַצֵּבָה - מַצֵּבָה - - matstsêbâh - mats-tsay-baw' - feminine (causatively) participle of נָצַב; something stationed, i.e. a column or (memorial stone); by analogy, an idol; garrison, (standing) image, pillar. - Noun Feminine - heb
- H4690 מָצוּק - 4690 מָצוּק - מָצוּק - - mâtsûwq - maw-tsook' - or מָצֻק; from צוּק; something narrow, i.e. a column or hilltop; pillar, situate. - Noun Masculine - heb
- H7638 שָׂבָךְ - 7638 שָׂבָךְ - שָׂבָךְ - - sâbâk - saw-bawk' - from an unused root meaning to intwine; a netting (ornament to the capital of a column); net. - Noun Masculine - heb
- H8490 תִּימָרָה - 8490 תִּימָרָה - תִּימָרָה - - tîymârâh - tee-maw-raw' - or תִּמָרָה; from the same as תָּמָר; a column, i.e. cloud; pillar. - Noun Feminine - heb
- H6858 צֶפֶת - 6858 צֶפֶת - צֶפֶת - - tsepheth - tseh'-feth - from an unused root meaning to encircle; a capital of a column; chapiter. - Noun Feminine - heb
- H2106 זָוִית - 2106 זָוִית - זָוִית - - zâvîyth - zaw-veeth' - apparently from the same root as זִו (in the sense of prominence); an angle (as projecting), i.e. (by implication) a corner-column (or anta); corner(stone). - Noun Feminine - heb