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column
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 • • • 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.
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