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col‧umn S3 W2 /ˈkɒləm $ ˈkɑː-/ noun [COUNTABLE]
[date : 1400-1500; Language : Old French; Origin : colomne, from Latin columna, from columen 'top']
1. a tall solid upright stone post used to support a building or as a decoration

2. a line of numbers or words written under each other that goes down a page ⇨ row
in a column
　 ▪ Add up the numbers in each column.
column of
　 ▪ a column of figures

3. an article on a particular subject or by a particular writer that appears regularly in a newspaper or magazine:
　 ▪ He writes a weekly column for ‘The Times’.
music/science/gardening etc column

4. one of two or more areas of print that go down the page of a newspaper or book and that are separated from each other by a narrow space:
　 ▪ Turn to page 5, column 2.
　 ▪ ‘The Sun’ devoted ten column inches to the event (=their article filled a column ten inches long).

5. something that has a tall thin shape
column of
　 ▪ a column of smoke

6. a long moving line of people or things
column of
　 ▪ a column of marching men
⇨ fifth column, gossip column, personal column, spinal column
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COLLOCATIONS (for Meaning 3)
ADJECTIVES/NOUN + column
▪a newspaper column
　 ▪ He’s the writer of a weekly newspaper column.
▪a weekly/daily/monthly column
　 ▪ Her daily column covered a wide range of topics.
▪a regular column
　 ▪ His views were well-known from his regular column in The Spectator magazine.
▪a gossip column (=one about the private lives of famous people)
　 ▪ She was upset by an item in the Washington Times gossip column.
▪an editorial column (=that expresses the opinion of a newspaper editor)
　 ▪ the Financial Times editorial column
▪a financial column
　 ▪ He wrote a financial column for the evening newspaper.
▪a correspondence/letters column (=that prints some of the letters a newspaper receives)
　 ▪ Thousands of letters poured in to the correspondence column.
▪an obituary column (=about the life of someone who has just died)
　 ▪ I spotted Stephenson's name in the obituary column.
▪the personal column British English (=in which people can have personal messages printed)
　 ▪ I put a small advertisement in the personal column of the paper.
▪an agony column British English (=that gives advice to readers about personal problems)
　 ▪ Romantic relationships are much discussed in all the agony columns.
▪a lonely hearts column British English (=with advertisements for a new lover or friend)
　 ▪ Some men place advertisements in the lonely hearts columns.
verbs
▪write a column
　 ▪ He writes a column on gardening for the Daily News.
▪have a column (=write one)
　 ▪ Lynch had a weekly column in a Sydney newspaper.
column + NOUN
▪column inches (=space in a newspaper or magazine)
　 ▪ Many column inches have recently been devoted to the troubled pop star.

noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
a column/plume of smoke
▪ He could see a thin black column of smoke rising vertically into the sky.
a newspaper column (=a regular article in a newspaper written by a particular journalist)
▪ She writes a regular newspaper column about gardening.
advice column
agony column
fifth column
gossip column
personal column
spinal column
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
ADJECTIVE
long
▪ Pictures were almost non-existent, long columns of grey, illegible type propped up its pages.
▪ Soldiers, in half-mile-\\#long columns, paraded through town.
▪ I turned and saw a long blue column approaching with a corporal in charge.
▪ I count a hundred eighty-five mov-ing along the shore in a long column, three or four bodies deep.
▪ Every few minutes the guns would halt as some obstruction worked its way down the long column.
▪ Warren happened to ride toward the point in the long column occupied by the brigade of General Stephen H.. Weed.
▪ Word was passed down the long column to close up, and to be ready to make a dash for the ford.
▪ He perused the long columns of journalistic licence which covered the Mercury's front page.
personal
▪ This month's personal finance column therefore takes a back to basics look at expatriate tax.
▪ When you do, place an advertisement in the personal column of the International Herald Tribune to read as follows.
▪ Clive Thornton contributed a personal finance column.
spinal
▪ Chiropractic Practitioners deal with the structural relationships between the nerve tissues and the spinal column.
▪ The central rod is known as the Sushumna and corresponds to the spinal column.
▪ Many neurologic disorders affecting the brain stem, cerebellum, and spinal cord posterior column may cause dizzy sensations.
▪ These are connected vertically to the idol along the spinal column, over the chakras and end at the head.
▪ The pinioned hands of the condemned man went suddenly white as the noose and the drop snapped his spinal column.
▪ They had rudimentary spinal columns and became the forerunners of fish.
▪ At intervals along its length groups of nerve fibres emerge from the spinal column to connect with the peripheral nervous system.
weekly
▪ Glasgow also had a weekly deaf column in the Glasgow Evening Times, written by a variety of people.
▪ Six weeks after I got there, my wish to write a weekly column was fulfilled.
▪ These are issues from which the sporting public is excluded other than in a weekly letters column.
▪ Perhaps unbeknown to you, the first lady has been churning out a weekly column since July 30 of last year.
▪ Before his Colette-Willy period he had contributed a weekly column of musical criticism to a Bordeaux newspaper.
▪ On top of the weekly columns, Brady has been a writing machine.
▪ Designing Minds is a weekly column exploring home and design issues, ideas and resources.
NOUN
gossip
▪ When such an article rises above the level of a gossip column, the artist's profile can be a valuable format.
▪ Without Deborah they did not add to any more than another name for the bars and gossip columns of New York.
▪ He made more gossip column copy than our delightful princess.
▪ When they stirred controversies, they were generally reported by the feature pages and gossip columns of newspapers.
▪ Harriet read film and gossip column mags voraciously.
▪ Her colourful opinions soon gave her a wider platform and she became a familiar face in the gossip columns.
▪ Back in London, her name began appearing in the gossip columns.
▪ Even colleagues assumed the gossip column staff spent most of their waking hours at parties.
inch
▪ Meanwhile, there was the question of his presents, to which much time and many column inches were devoted.
▪ Between this and stories on Burke of the Somme, Chant's death attracted a lot of column inches.
▪ A column inch is one column wide by one inch deep.
▪ We have this morning's here, Chock full of column inches on yourself.
▪ Now it merits but a few column inches in a few papers.
▪ The official excuse for a sudden wave sweeping every column inch of coverage is that a genuine revelation has occurred.
▪ And by the spring of 1988, the column inches devoted to her in Britain's tabloids were adding up to miles.
newspaper
▪ Best-selling books, magazine articles and newspaper columns publicised his ideas.
▪ Tony Lewis, the chairman, set out the rationale in his newspaper column.
▪ Thousands of people knew him from his radio and television appearances and weekly newspaper column for the Los Angeles Times.
▪ So disillusioned and grumpy is he that he writes a local newspaper column on the subject.
▪ Can this city survive without its traditional battalions of colorful characters swaggering through saloons and newspaper columns?
▪ Instead, the information related solely to a forthcoming newspaper column which recommended the shares of particular companies.
▪ Should he try to write a newspaper column?
VERB
appear
▪ Back in London, her name began appearing in the gossip columns.
display
▪ With a spreadsheet, you can display more rows and columns.
▪ The screen scrolls to the right, displaying the first four columns. 16.
enter
▪ The budget figures for the selected projects and the other resource-consuming activities are entered into the budget column and subtotals calculated.
▪ Press 2, then Enter, for two columns.
▪ At the review dates the expenditure per planning period is entered in the actual column opposite the relevant activity.
▪ Where agreed, they are entered into this column.
▪ This number is entered into the appropriate column.
move
▪ Turbulence produced by rapidly moving columns of air also generates low-frequency sounds.
▪ In the meantime, the 2d Battalion of the 271 Regiment, moving forward in a column, engaged the northernmost company.
▪ The various components of the mixture separate as they gradually move down the column.
▪ The solution? Move the column as a rectangle, not as a column.
▪ Component 1 has the higher partition coefficient and thus moves through the column faster.
▪ When you move a column, the tab codes on either side come with it.
▪ Always move the deleted column at once, otherwise you may lose it from the Scrap. 8 Tap Ins for Insert.
▪ We will now move the first column to the end of the table. 10.
read
▪ They've all read the Magpie column but arrive at differing conclusions.
▪ I read the column every Thursday and like it a lot.
▪ Harriet read film and gossip column mags voraciously.
▪ The first thing you should do, before you even read this column, is take the guided tour offered onscreen.
▪ I've started reading your column in the Sunday Express but that won't satisfy my insatiable appetite for your peerless wit.
▪ She must not read this column!
▪ As reading down the columns shows, the meanings of the phonetics, on the other hand, do not.
show
▪ The result of using the mean of each triple instead of the median is shown in columns 4 and 5 of figure 9.7.
▪ The tax rates shown in column 2 of Table 8-2 are marginal tax rates.
▪ Main storage technologies have similarly evolved, as shown in the fourth column of Figure 1.8.
▪ The adjusted figures are shown in the second column of Table 6.
▪ The frequencies of these breakage types are shown in columns 2 and 3 in Table 3.7.
support
▪ The arches are supported on columns with Composite capitals.
▪ Graceful, narrow arches supported by Corinthian columns flank its altar and frame its windows.
▪ The electronic zoo consists of a 9m grid coffered slab supported by reinforced columns.
▪ Each one has its silvery gray live-oak lintel, still supporting the column of lovely pink brick.
▪ The central space or nave was 280 feet long and 80 feet wide and the roof was supported on 96 granite columns.
▪ Our regiment was on the left, and supporting the assaulting column.
▪ These are great vaulted underground caverns, the roof supported by columns which display a wide variety of capital design.
▪ It was an ornate old lobby with great marble supporting columns and big pots of palms standing around.
write
▪ So disillusioned and grumpy is he that he writes a local newspaper column on the subject.
▪ On the board she had written two columns of phrases.
▪ He writes a daily showbiz column for them.
▪ Herb Caen wrote a column like that.
▪ Among other old boys: Johnny Giles writes a regular football column in the Daily Mail.
▪ He writes a monthly column for Wired and was an original investor.
▪ I even wrote a monthly column of book reviews plus a feature on newly released recordings, both popular and classical.
▪ Barry wrote a column about bad songs from the rock era and somehow managed to milk it into a book.
PHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
lonely hearts club/column/ad
▪ He met Dominique through a lonely hearts ad.
▪ How would you describe yourself in a lonely hearts ad?
▪ They talked about books, the theatre, cinema, where they lived, lonely hearts columns.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
▪ Columns of factory workers waved banners.
▪ Columns of men and women were making their way towards the central square.
▪ a row of Greek columns
▪ a weekly column
▪ an advice column
▪ Did you read Julie Burchill's column in the Guardian this week?
▪ His column appears every other week in the local paper.
▪ Sales totals are shown in this column.
▪ The column of French soldiers passed us on their way to the battlefront.
▪ The article I told you about is in the left column.
▪ The car has an adjustable steering column.
▪ The first column is for expenses.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ By their shape, pillars signified trees, but also stone columns.
▪ Crowe offered a pathetic excuse about investigating woodworm infestation for his nature column, but I soon beetled the truth out of him.
▪ Effective rate for contracts entered into two days from date appearing at top of this column.
▪ In the Cathedral at Gurk there is a vast crypt possessing 100 columns which support a groined vault dating from 1160.
▪ Press 3 to turn on the column feature.
▪ Tabular setting text set in columns such as timetables.
▪ They want photo stories, tales of holiday romances, horoscopes and advice columns as well as free gifts of make-up and jewellery.
▪ This is particularly important when a column has entries of different lengths.