Column

(noun.) (architecture) a tall vertical cylindrical structure standing upright and used to support a structure.

(noun.) a vertical cylindrical structure standing alone and not supporting anything (such as a monument).

(noun.) a vertical glass tube used in column chromatography; a mixture is poured in the top and washed through a stationary substance where components of the mixture are adsorbed selectively to form colored bands.

(noun.) any tubular or pillar-like supporting structure in the body.

(noun.) a page or text that is vertically divided; 'the newspaper devoted several columns to the subject'; 'the bookkeeper used pages that were divided into columns'.

(noun.) an article giving opinions or perspectives.

(noun.) a line of units following one after another.

(noun.) a vertical array of numbers or other information; 'he added a column of numbers'.

(noun.) anything that approximates the shape of a column or tower; 'the test tube held a column of white powder'; 'a tower of dust rose above the horizon'; 'a thin pillar of smoke betrayed their campsite'.

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• The shortness of the mercury column as compared with that of water makes the mercury more convenient for both experimental and practical purposes. 伯莎M.克拉克. 科学通论.
• I turned and rode around the block the other way, so as to meet the head of the column. 尤利西斯·格兰特. U．S．格兰特的个人回忆录.
• We passed a long column of loaded mules, the drivers walking along beside the mules wearing red fezzes. 欧内斯特·海明威. 永别了,武器.
• This automatic electrocuting device attracted so much attention, and got half a column in an evening paper, that the manager made me stop it. 弗兰克·刘易斯·戴尔. 爱迪生的生平和发明.
• The column moving detached from the army still in the trenches was, excluding the cavalry, very small. 尤利西斯·格兰特. U．S．格兰特的个人回忆录.
• I was the last to leave the chamber of the submarine, and as I followed the rear of the column toward the corridor, I moved through water to my knees. 埃德加·赖斯·巴勒斯. 火星战神.
• No, no, no my friend; not to the top of the column; you know better than that; to the bottom, to the bottom. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 远大前程.
• From the position I occupied I could see column after column of Bragg's forces moving against Sherman. 尤利西斯·格兰特. U．S．格兰特的个人回忆录.
• If the vacuum passes over water, the water may rise in it in a body or column to near the height of thirty-two feet. 本杰明·富兰克林. 富兰克林自传.
• In 1868, Glasgow and Wood patented a process of dropping the shot through a column of glycerine or oil. Edward W. Byrn. 十九世纪发明进展.
• On the 10th of June the pursuing column was all back at Corinth. 尤利西斯·格兰特. U．S．格兰特的个人回忆录.
• I could see the stalled column between the trees in the rain as I went forward across from it in the field. 欧内斯特·海明威. 永别了,武器.
• Her body was long and elegant, her face was crushed tiny like a beetle's, she had rows of round heavy collars, like a column of quoits, on her neck. 戴维·赫伯特·劳伦斯. 恋爱中的女人.
• It was for a ten-key adding machine which did not print and only added in one column. 佚名. 神奇的知识之书.
• During this day I accompanied General Meade's column, and about midnight received the following communication from General Lee: April 8, 1865. 尤利西斯·格兰特. U．S．格兰特的个人回忆录.
• A good skirmish line preceded each of these columns. 尤利西斯·格兰特. U．S．格兰特的个人回忆录.
• First there had been columns, then there were regiments, then there were brigades. 欧内斯特·海明威. 丧钟为谁而鸣.
• I sat at the foot of these vast columns. 玛丽·雪莱. 最后一个人.
• As we moved out through the town it was empty in the rain and the dark except for columns of troops and guns that were going through the main street. 欧内斯特·海明威. 永别了,武器.
• And yet its arches, its columns, and its statues proclaim it to have been built by an enlightened race. 马克·吐温. 傻子出国记.
• Another column marched on the direct road and went into camp at the point designated for the two columns to meet. 尤利西斯·格兰特. U．S．格兰特的个人回忆录.
• It had fifty-four columns around it, but only six are standing now--the others lie broken at its base, a confused and picturesque heap. 马克·吐温. 傻子出国记.
• The plan had been for an advance of Sigel's forces in two columns. 尤利西斯·格兰特. U．S．格兰特的个人回忆录.
• In the so-called wind instruments, sound is produced by vibrating columns of air inclosed in tubes or pipes of different lengths. 伯莎M.克拉克. 科学通论.
• There are small lateral columns of water outside which receive the force, and which transmit and multiply it in the manner which is familiar to you. 阿瑟·柯南·道尔. 福尔摩斯历险记.
• The six columns are their bases, Corinthian capitals and entablature--and six more shapely columns do not exist. 马克·吐温. 傻子出国记.
• At eleven o'clock, our eyes fell upon the walls and columns of Baalbec, a noble ruin whose history is a sealed book. 马克·吐温. 傻子出国记.
• Air columns vibrate in segments just as do strings, and the tone emitted by a pipe of given length is complex, consisting of the fundamental and one or more overtones. 伯莎M.克拉克. 科学通论.
• If I had come in here as a journalist, I should have interviewed myself and had two columns in every evening paper. 阿瑟·柯南·道尔. 福尔摩斯归来记.
• The balcony of the second floor merged into the barn and there was hay coming Out between the columns. 欧内斯特·海明威. 永别了,武器.

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