column

Architecture.

1. a rigid, relatively slender, upright support, composed of relatively few pieces.

2. 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 (distinguished from line).

a formation of ships in single file.

Botany. a columnlike structure in an orchid flower, composed of the united stamens and style.

an upright post or pillar usually having a cylindrical shaft, a base, and a capital

1. a form or structure in the shape of a column

   a column of air

2. a monument

a row, line, or file, as of people in a queue

military a narrow formation in which individuals or units follow one behind the other

journalism

1. any of two or more vertical sections of type on a printed page, esp on a newspaper page

2. a regular article or feature in a paper

   the fashion column

a vertical array of numbers or mathematical terms

botany a long structure in a flower, such as that of an orchid, consisting of the united stamens and style

anatomy zoology any elongated structure, such as a tract of grey matter in the spinal cord or the stalk of a crinoid