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A column carries the building or topples the argument, depending on which kind you mean.
means A column is an upright pillar that supports a structure, or by extension a vertical arrangement of things — text, numbers, soldiers, or air.
from From Latin 'columna,' a pillar, related to 'columen,' meaning a peak or summit (and a cousin of 'culmen,' the same root behind 'culminate'). The architectural sense came first; the meanings for printed columns, marching columns, and figurative pillars all grew from that single standing stone.
- greek orders
- Doric, Ionic, Corinthian — ranked by hairstyle, basically
- entasis
- Greek columns bulge slightly so they look straight
- newspaper roots
- Columns named for the vertical text strips they fill
- spine
- Your vertebral column stacks 33 bones into one tower
- fifth column
- Means traitors inside, coined during Spain's civil war
trajan's column — roman monument in rome built 113 ad with 2,662 figures carved into its spiral relief
nelson's column — monument in trafalgar square, london, 52 meters tall with statue of admiral nelson at top
colonna di marco aurelio — roman column in rome's piazza colonna, built 180 ad with 116 spiral scenes depicting marcomannic wars