column
noun
Key Types & categories Parts & wholes Related & opposite
- Word type
- noun
- verb
- adjective
- adverb
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- instance, member or derived
- substance, domain or see-also
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Senses
Sense 1 noun
a line of units following one after another
Types & categories
- single file hypernym
Related & opposite
- military domain topic
Sense 2 noun
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
Types & categories
- tube hypernym
Sense 3 noun
a vertical array of numbers or other information
he added a column of numbers
Types & categories
- array hypernym
Parts & wholes
- table member holonym
Sense 4 noun
anything that approximates the shape of a column or tower
the test tube held a column of white powder
Types & categories
Related & opposite
Sense 5 noun
an article giving opinions or perspectives
Types & categories
- article hypernym
- agony column hyponym
Parts & wholes
- newspaper part holonym
Related & opposite
- columnist derivation
- editorialize derivation
Sense 6 noun
a vertical cylindrical structure standing alone and not supporting anything (such as a monument)
Types & categories
- structure hypernym
- obelisk hyponym
- totem pole hyponym
Sense 7 noun
(architecture) a tall vertical cylindrical structure standing upright and used to support a structure
Types & categories
Parts & wholes
Related & opposite
- columnar derivation
- architecture domain topic
Sense 8 noun
a page or text that is vertically divided
the newspaper devoted several columns to the subject
Types & categories
- text hypernym
Sense 9 noun
any tubular or pillar-like supporting structure in the body
Types & categories
- skeletal structure hypernym
Table view of this graph
| Sense | Relation | Group | Word |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | domain topic | Related & opposite | military |
| 1 | hypernym | Types & categories | single file |
| 2 | hypernym | Types & categories | tube |
| 3 | member holonym | Parts & wholes | table |
| 3 | hypernym | Types & categories | array |
| 4 | derivation | Related & opposite | hulk |
| 4 | derivation | Related & opposite | columnar |
| 4 | hypernym | Types & categories | shape |
| 4 | hyponym | Types & categories | columella |
| 4 | hyponym | Types & categories | hoodoo |
| 5 | derivation | Related & opposite | columnist |
| 5 | derivation | Related & opposite | editorialize |
| 5 | part holonym | Parts & wholes | newspaper |
| 5 | hypernym | Types & categories | article |
| 5 | hyponym | Types & categories | agony column |
| 6 | hypernym | Types & categories | structure |
| 6 | hyponym | Types & categories | obelisk |
| 6 | hyponym | Types & categories | totem pole |
| 7 | derivation | Related & opposite | columnar |
| 7 | domain topic | Related & opposite | architecture |
| 7 | part holonym | Parts & wholes | temple |
| 7 | part meronym | Parts & wholes | chapiter |
| 7 | part meronym | Parts & wholes | plinth |
| 7 | part meronym | Parts & wholes | scape |
| 7 | part meronym | Parts & wholes | entasis |
| 7 | hypernym | Types & categories | upright |
| 7 | hyponym | Types & categories | telamon |
| 7 | hyponym | Types & categories | caryatid |
| 7 | hyponym | Types & categories | newel |
| 7 | hyponym | Types & categories | pilaster |
| 7 | hyponym | Types & categories | stilt |
| 7 | hyponym | Types & categories | support column |
| 8 | hypernym | Types & categories | text |
| 9 | hypernym | Types & categories | skeletal structure |