Word Meanings - COLUMN - Book Publishers vocabulary database

A kind of pillar; a cylindrical or polygonal support for a roof, ceiling, statue, etc., somewhat ornamented, and usually composed of base, shaft, and capital. See Order. 2. Anything resembling, in form or position, a column an architecture;

Additional info about word: COLUMN

A kind of pillar; a cylindrical or polygonal support for a roof, ceiling, statue, etc., somewhat ornamented, and usually composed of base, shaft, and capital. See Order. 2. Anything resembling, in form or position, a column an architecture; an upright body or mass; a shaft or obelisk; as, a column of air, of water, of mercury, etc. ; the Column Vendôme; the spinal column. A body of troops formed in ranks, one behind the other; -- contradistinguished from line. Compare Ploy, and Deploy. A small army. (more info) only in comp.), akin to E. excel, and prob. to holm. See Holm, and

Possible synonyms: (Same meaning words of COLUMN)

• Pillar
• Column
• shaft
• post
• support

Possible antonyms: (opposite words of COLUMN)

• Drop
• betray
• surrender
• abandon
• discontinue
• oppose
• discourage
• weaken
• exhaust
• thwart
• discountenance
• disfavor
• subvert
• suppress

Related words: (words related to COLUMN)

• SUPPORTABLE
  Capable of being supported, maintained, or endured; endurable. -- Sup*port"a*ble*ness, n. -- Sup*port"a*bly, adv.
• SUPPORTATION
  Maintenance; support. Chaucer. Bacon.
• SHAFTING
  Shafts, collectivelly; a system of connected shafts for communicating motion.
• SUPPRESSOR
  One who suppresses.
• PILLARED
  Supported or ornamented by pillars; resembling a pillar, or pillars. "The pillared arches." Sir W. Scott. "Pillared flame." Thomson.
• DISCONTINUE
  To interrupt the continuance of; to intermit, as a practice or habit; to put an end to; to cause to cease; to cease using, to stop; to leave off. Set up their conventicles again, which had been discontinued. Bp. Burnet. I have discontinued school
• COLUMN
  A kind of pillar; a cylindrical or polygonal support for a roof, ceiling, statue, etc., somewhat ornamented, and usually composed of base, shaft, and capital. See Order. 2. Anything resembling, in form or position, a column an architecture;
• SUPPORTFUL
  Abounding with support. Chapman.
• EXHAUSTION
  An ancient geometrical method in which an exhaustive process was employed. It was nearly equivalent to the modern method of limits. Note: The method of exhaustions was applied to great variety of propositions, pertaining to rectifications
• SUPPORTLESS
  Having no support. Milton.
• OPPOSELESS
  Not to be effectually opposed; irresistible. "Your great opposeless wills." Shak.
• DISCOURAGEMENT
  1. The act of discouraging, or the state of being discouraged; depression or weakening of confidence; dejection. 2. That which discourages; that which deters, or tends to deter, from an undertaking, or from the prosecution of anything; a determent;
• BETRAYAL
  The act or the result of betraying.
• COLUMNARITY
  The state or quality of being columnar.
• EXHAUSTIVE
  Serving or tending to exhaust; exhibiting all the facts or arguments; as, an exhaustive method. Ex*haust"ive*ly, adv.
• EXHAUSTURE
  Exhaustion. Wraxall.
• PILLAR
  A portable ornamental column, formerly carried before a cardinal, as emblematic of his support to the church. Skelton. (more info) 1. The general and popular term for a firm, upright, insulated support for a superstructure; a pier, column, or
• SHAFTMAN; SHAFTMENT
  A measure of about six inches.
• DISFAVORABLY
  Unpropitiously.
• ABANDON
  To relinquish all claim to; -- used when an insured person gives up to underwriters all claim to the property covered by a policy, which may remain after loss or damage by a peril insured against. Syn. -- To give up; yield; forego; cede; surrender;
• PAPILLARY
  Of, pertaining to, or resembling, a papilla or papillæ; bearing, or covered with, papillæ; papillose.
• WAY SHAFT
  A rock shaft.
• ELECTRO-CAPILLARITY
  The occurrence or production of certain capillary effects by the action of an electrical current or charge.
• SEMICOLUMNAR
  Like a semicolumn; flat on one side and round on the other; imperfectly columnar.
• OVERTHWARTLY
  In an overthwart manner;across; also, perversely. Peacham.
• INSUPPRESSIBLE
  That can not be suppressed or concealed; irrepressible. Young. -- In`sup*press"i*bly, adv.
• CAPILLARITY
  The peculiar action by which the surface of a liquid, where it is in contact with a solid , is elevated or depressed; capillary attraction. Note: Capillarity depends upon the relative attaction of the modecules of the liquid for each other and
• UNEXHAUSTIBLE
  Inexhaustible.
• INEXHAUSTED
  Not exhausted; not emptied; not spent; not having lost all strength or resources; unexhausted. Dryden.