different between column vs bague

English

Etymology

From Middle English columne, columpne, columpe, borrowed from Old French columne, from Latin columna (“a column, pillar, post”), originally a collateral form of columen, contraction culmen (“a pillar, top, crown, summit”). Akin to Latin collis (“a hill”), celsus (“high”), probably to Ancient Greek ??????? (koloph?n, “top, summit”).

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /?k?l?m/
• (General American), (Ireland) enPR: k?l??m, IPA^(key): /?k?l?m/
• (General American, rare), (Ireland) enPR: k?l?j?m, IPA^(key): /?k?lj?m/
• Hyphenation: col?umn
• Rhymes: -?l?m

Noun

column (plural columns)

1. (architecture) 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.

5. A unit of width, especially of advertisements, in a periodical, equivalent to the width of a usual column of text.

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.

7. Something having similar vertical form or structure to the things mentioned above, such as a spinal column.
8. (botany) The gynostemium
9. (chemistry) An object used to separate the different components of a liquid or to purify chemical compounds.

Synonyms

• (upright structure): post, pillar, sile

Antonyms

• (line of table entries): row (which is horizontal)

Hypernyms

• (upright structure): beam

Derived terms

Translations

Further reading

• column in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
• column in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.

English

Etymology

Borrowed from French bague (“ring”). Doublet of bee.

Noun

bague (plural bagues)

1. (architecture) The annular moulding or group of mouldings dividing a long shaft or clustered column into two or more parts.

French

Etymology

From Middle French bague, possibly a borrowing from Middle Dutch bage, bagge (“ring”), of obscure origin. Compare Middle Low German bâge, bôge (“curve, arch,ring”), Old French wage (“ring”). Compare also Old French bage, Medieval Latin baga (“ring”), from Proto-Germanic *baugaz (“ring, collar, bracelet”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ba?/

Noun

bague f (plural bagues)

1. ring

Further reading

• “bague” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

Anagrams

• bauge

Norman

Etymology

Of Germanic origins, from Proto-Germanic *baugaz.

Pronunciation

Noun

bague f (plural bagues)

1. (Jersey) ring (jewelry)
2. (Jersey) haw (fruit)