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# column

«column» in Mova's school dictionary: **a line of things going straight up and down, one under…** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 5 sentences of Mova's corpora that use it.

### part of speech

noun (column, columns)

### meaning for a pupil

1) A column is a line of things going straight up and down, one under another. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/column/#m1)

2) In a table, a column runs up and down and a row runs across. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/column/#m2)

3) A column is a tall stone post that holds up a roof. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/column/#m3)

4) A column is also a regular article in a newspaper, or a long line of marching people. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/column/#m4)

### sense in the lessons

maths: things set in columns and rows, as in arrays of chairs, desks or stamps; the number in each column times the number of columns gives the total; place-value columns (ones, tens, hundreds); column addition; tables and charts; history: Greek and Roman columns; everyday life: columns in a newspaper

### examples

- The chairs are in 6 columns with 5 chairs in each. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/column/#x1)
- Each column of the table has 8 numbers. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/column/#x2)
- Mia puts 4 stickers in each column. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/column/#x3)
- How many columns of 3 can she make with 21 cards? [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/column/#x4)
- Write the tens in the tens column. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/column/#x5)
- The old temple has tall stone columns. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/column/#x6)
- Add the numbers in the column. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/column/#x7)
- A column of soldiers marched past. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/column/#x8)
- Then he saw the statue on the tall column. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/column/#x9)

### note

Columns and rows point to multiplication (columns × things in each) or to division when the total is shared into columns. Trap: do not mix up rows and columns when the problem gives both: columns go up and down, rows go across. The n is silent: say «KOL-um».

### In the corpora

- [Above them are «royal sources», newspaper columns and online guesses — some right, many wrong, none of them checkable.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/adult-life/44-the-royal-family-in-the-news-a-wedding-a-move-to-america-an-interview-and-a-book/4/)
- [Look for a photo, a caption under it and columns too.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/english/24-persuasive-letters-newspaper-articles-and-diaries/11/)
- [Newspaper features include a headline, a photo, a caption and columns.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/english/24-persuasive-letters-newspaper-articles-and-diaries/22/)
- [Pliny the Younger wrote an eyewitness account of the AD 79 eruption, and tall ash-column eruptions are now called Plinian.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/geography/47-famous-eruptions-and-living-with-volcanoes/6/)
- [A tornado is a narrow spinning column of air that reaches from a thunderstorm cloud down to the ground.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/world/68-storms-and-wild-winds/15/)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «column» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/column/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.