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column
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)
- (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.
- A vertical line of entries in a table, usually read from top to bottom.
- A body of troops or army vehicles, usually strung out along a road.
- A body of text meant to be read line by line, especially in printed material that has multiple adjacent such on a single page.
- A unit of width, especially of advertisements, in a periodical, equivalent to the width of a usual column of text.
- (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.
- Something having similar vertical form or structure to the things mentioned above, such as a spinal column.
- (botany) The gynostemium
- (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.
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gorgerin
English
Etymology
Borrowed from French gorgerin
Noun
gorgerin (plural gorgerins)
- (architecture) In some columns, that part of the capital between the termination of the shaft and the annulet of the echinus, or the space between two neck moldings; the hypotrachelium.
Anagrams
- Gorringe, rogering
French
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /???.??.???/
Noun
gorgerin m (plural gorgerins)
- (historical) gorget (armor for throat)
- (historical) gorget, wimple (piece of clothing)
- (architecture) gorgerin
- In Ancient Egypt, an heavy and rather bulky jewel which rested on the chest skin or a short-sleeved shirt, and tied at the back.
Further reading
- “gorgerin” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).
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