English Dictionary

column

IPA（発音記号）

/ˈkɒləm/

名詞

広義

(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.

日本語の意味

柱：建築物において、通常は屋根や梁など上部構造を支えるために設計された垂直な構造物。装飾の目的で用いられることもある。

A single Corinthian column stood at the entrance, its capital carved with acanthus leaves.

入口にはコリント式の柱が一基立っており、その柱頭にはアカンサスの葉が彫られていた。

意味（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.

意味（2）

A vertical line of entries in a table, usually read from top to bottom.

意味（3）

A body of troops or army vehicles, usually strung out along a road.

意味（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.

意味（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.

意味（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.

意味（7）

Something having similar vertical form or structure to the things mentioned above, such as a spinal column.

The desert storm was riding in its strength; the travellers lay beneath the mastery of the fell simoom. Whirling wreaths and columns of burning wind, rushed around and over them.

意味（8）

(botany) The gynostemium

意味（9）

(chemistry) An object used to separate the different components of a liquid or to purify chemical compounds.

columns （ plural ）