| column | | |
| n. (group) | 1. column | a line of units following one after another. |
| ~ armed forces, armed services, military, military machine, war machine | the military forces of a nation.; "their military is the largest in the region"; "the military machine is the same one we faced in 1991 but now it is weaker" |
| ~ indian file, single file, file | a line of persons or things ranged one behind the other. |
| n. (artifact) | 2. chromatography column, column | 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. |
| ~ tube, tubing | conduit consisting of a long hollow object (usually cylindrical) used to hold and conduct objects or liquids or gases. |
| n. (group) | 3. column | a vertical array of numbers or other information.; "he added a column of numbers" |
| ~ array | an orderly arrangement.; "an array of troops in battle order" |
| ~ table, tabular array | a set of data arranged in rows and columns.; "see table 1" |
| n. (shape) | 4. column, pillar, tower | 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" |
| ~ shape, form | the spatial arrangement of something as distinct from its substance.; "geometry is the mathematical science of shape" |
| ~ columella | a small column (or structure resembling a column) that is a part of a plant or animal. |
| ~ hoodoo | (geology) a column of weathered and unusually shaped rock.; "a tall sandstone hoodoo" |
| n. (communication) | 5. column, editorial, newspaper column | an article giving opinions or perspectives. |
| ~ newspaper, paper | a daily or weekly publication on folded sheets; contains news and articles and advertisements.; "he read his newspaper at breakfast" |
| ~ article | nonfictional prose forming an independent part of a publication. |
| ~ agony column | a newspaper column devoted to personal problems. |
| n. (artifact) | 6. column, pillar | a vertical cylindrical structure standing alone and not supporting anything (such as a monument). |
| ~ obelisk | a stone pillar having a rectangular cross section tapering towards a pyramidal top. |
| ~ structure, construction | a thing constructed; a complex entity constructed of many parts.; "the structure consisted of a series of arches"; "she wore her hair in an amazing construction of whirls and ribbons" |
| ~ totem pole | a tribal emblem consisting of a pillar carved and painted with totemic figures; erected by Indian tribes of the northwest Pacific coast. |
| n. (artifact) | 7. column, pillar | (architecture) a tall vertical cylindrical structure standing upright and used to support a structure. |
| ~ telamon, atlas | a figure of a man used as a supporting column. |
| ~ chapiter, capital, cap | the upper part of a column that supports the entablature. |
| ~ caryatid | a supporting column carved in the shape of a person. |
| ~ newel | the central pillar of a circular staircase. |
| ~ footstall, plinth, pedestal | an architectural support or base (as for a column or statue). |
| ~ pilaster | a rectangular column that usually projects about a third of its width from the wall to which it is attached. |
| ~ piling, spile, stilt, pile | a column of wood or steel or concrete that is driven into the ground to provide support for a structure. |
| ~ scape, shaft | (architecture) upright consisting of the vertical part of a column. |
| ~ support column | a column that supports a heavy weight. |
| ~ temple | an edifice devoted to special or exalted purposes. |
| ~ upright, vertical | a vertical structural member as a post or stake.; "the ball sailed between the uprights" |
| ~ architecture | the discipline dealing with the principles of design and construction and ornamentation of fine buildings.; "architecture and eloquence are mixed arts whose end is sometimes beauty and sometimes use" |
| ~ entasis | a slight convexity in the shaft of a column; compensates for the illusion of concavity that viewers experience when the sides are perfectly straight. |
| n. (communication) | 8. column | 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" |
| ~ text, textual matter | the words of something written.; "there were more than a thousand words of text"; "they handed out the printed text of the mayor's speech"; "he wants to reconstruct the original text" |
| n. (body) | 9. column | any tubular or pillar-like supporting structure in the body. |
| ~ skeletal structure | any structure created by the skeleton of an organism. |
| torso | | |
| n. (body) | 1. body, torso, trunk | the body excluding the head and neck and limbs.; "they moved their arms and legs and bodies" |
| ~ body, organic structure, physical structure | the entire structure of an organism (an animal, plant, or human being).; "he felt as if his whole body were on fire" |
| ~ body part | any part of an organism such as an organ or extremity. |
| ~ diaphragm, midriff | (anatomy) a muscular partition separating the abdominal and thoracic cavities; functions in respiration. |
| ~ shoulder | the part of the body between the neck and the upper arm. |
| ~ articulatio humeri, shoulder joint, shoulder | a ball-and-socket joint between the head of the humerus and a cavity of the scapula. |
| ~ serratus, serratus muscles | any of several muscles of the trunk. |
| ~ side | either the left or right half of a body.; "he had a pain in his side" |
| ~ chest, pectus, thorax | the part of the human torso between the neck and the diaphragm or the corresponding part in other vertebrates. |
| ~ midriff, midsection, middle | the middle area of the human torso (usually in front).; "young American women believe that a bare midriff is fashionable" |
| ~ waist, waistline | the narrowing of the body between the ribs and hips. |
| ~ paunch, belly | a protruding abdomen. |
| ~ love handle, spare tire | excess fat around the waistline. |
| ~ hip | either side of the body below the waist and above the thigh. |
| ~ haunch | the hip and buttock and upper thigh in human beings. |
| ~ abdomen, belly, stomach, venter | the region of the body of a vertebrate between the thorax and the pelvis. |
| ~ back, dorsum | the posterior part of a human (or animal) body from the neck to the end of the spine.; "his back was nicely tanned" |
| ~ arse, ass, behind, buns, buttocks, derriere, fanny, hind end, hindquarters, keister, nates, posterior, prat, rear end, tooshie, tush, backside, fundament, seat, bottom, rump, stern, tail end, bum, butt, can, rear, tail | the fleshy part of the human body that you sit on.; "he deserves a good kick in the butt"; "are you going to sit on your fanny and do nothing?" |
| ~ buttock, cheek | either of the two large fleshy masses of muscular tissue that form the human rump. |
| ~ loins | the region of the hips and groin and lower abdomen. |
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