columns

Meaning of columns

noun
  1. A solid upright structure designed usually to support a larger structure above it, such as a roof or horizontal beam, but sometimes for decoration.
  2. A vertical line of entries in a table, usually read from top to bottom.
  3. A body of troops or army vehicles, usually strung out along a road.
  4. A body of text meant to be read line by line, especially in printed material that has multiple adjacent such on a single page.
    It was too hard to read the text across the whole page, so I split it into two columns.
  5. A unit of width, especially of advertisements, in a periodical, equivalent to the width of a usual column of text.
    Each column inch costs $300 a week; this ad is four columns by three inches, so will run $3600 a week.
  6. (by extension) A recurring feature in a periodical, especially an opinion piece, especially by a single author or small rotating group of authors, or on a single theme.
    His initial foray into print media was as the author of a weekly column in his elementary-school newspaper.
  7. Something having similar vertical form or structure to the things mentioned above, such as a spinal column.
  8. The gynostemium
  9. (chemistry) An object used to separate the different components of a liquid or to purify chemical compounds.

Information about columns

  • It is a name.
  • The singular form of columns is: column.
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Hyphenation of columns

col-umns

  • It consists of 2 syllables and 7 chars.
  • columns is a word disyllabic because it has two syllables

columns synonyms

Meaning :

pillar, post, sile

columns antonyms

Meaning :

row

Words that rhyme with columns

autumns

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