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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.
- Head - n. - The place or honor, or of command; the most important or foremost position; the front; as, the head of the table; the head of a column of soldiers.
- Indentation - n. - The act of beginning a line or series of lines at a little distance within the flush line of the column or page, as in the common way of beginning the first line of a paragraph.
- Slip - n. - A portion of the columns of a newspaper or other work struck off by itself; a proof from a column of type when set up and in the galley.
- Order - n. - The disposition of a column and its component parts, and of the entablature resting upon it, in classical architecture; hence (as the column and entablature are the characteristic features of classical architecture) a style or manner of architectural designing.
- Ploy - v. i. - To form a column from a line of troops on some designated subdivision; -- the opposite of deploy.
- Baluster - n. - A small column or pilaster, used as a support to the rail of an open parapet, to guard the side of a staircase, or the front of a gallery. See Balustrade.
- Tenderloin - n. - A strip of tender flesh on either side of the vertebral column under the short ribs, in the hind quarter of beef and pork. It consists of the psoas muscles.
- 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.
- Sacrum - n. - That part of the vertebral column which is directly connected with, or forms a part of, the pelvis.
- Paragraph - n. - A brief composition complete in one typographical section or paragraph; an item, remark, or quotation comprised in a few lines forming one paragraph; as, a column of news paragraphs; an editorial paragraph.
- Blast - n. - The exhaust steam from and engine, driving a column of air out of a boiler chimney, and thus creating an intense draught through the fire; also, any draught produced by the blast.
- Water barometer - - A barometer in which the changes of atmospheric pressure are indicated by the motion of a column of water instead of mercury. It requires a column of water about thirty-three feet in height.
- Guide - v. t. - A noncommissioned officer or soldier placed on the directiug flank of each subdivision of a column of troops, or at the end of a line, to mark the pivots, formations, marches, and alignments in tactics.
- Blower - n. - The whale; -- so called by seamen, from the circumstance of its spouting up a column of water.
- Sum - v. t. - To bring together into one whole; to collect into one amount; to cast up, as a column of figures; to ascertain the totality of; -- usually with up.
- 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.
- Napier's rods - - A set of rods, made of bone or other material, each divided into nine spaces, and containing the numbers of a column of the multiplication table; -- a contrivance of Baron Napier, the inventor of logarithms, for facilitating the operations of multiplication and division.
- Semicolumn - n. - A half column; a column bisected longitudinally, or along its axis.
- Urostyle - n. - A styliform process forming the posterior extremity of the vertebral column in some fishes and amphibians.
- Loin - n. - That part of a human being or quadruped, which extends on either side of the spinal column between the hip bone and the false ribs. In human beings the loins are also called the reins. See Illust. of Beef.
- Footing - n. - The act of adding up a column of figures; the amount or sum total of such a column.
- 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.
- Ohm - n. - The standard unit in the measure of electrical resistance, being the resistance of a circuit in which a potential difference of one volt produces a current of one ampere. As defined by the International Electrical Congress in 1893, and by United States Statute, it is a resistance substantially equal to 109 units of resistance of the C.G.S. system of electro-magnetic units, and is represented by the resistance offered to an unvarying electric current by a column of mercury at the temperature of melting ice 14.4521 grams in mass, of a constant cross-sectional area, and of the length of 106.3 centimeters. As thus defined it is called the international ohm.
- Slug - n. - A thick strip of metal less than type high, and as long as the width of a column or a page, -- used in spacing out pages and to separate display lines, etc.
- 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.
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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