colum

Noun

coolung (plural coolungs)

1. (India, archaic) The common crane (Grus grus).

Noun

column (plural columns)

1. A solid upright structure designed usually to support a larger structure above it, such as a roof or horizontal beam, but sometimes for decoration.

   Synonyms:

   post, pillar, sile, pier

2. A vertical line of entries in a table, usually read from top to bottom.
3. A body of troops or army vehicles, usually strung out along a road.
4. A body of text meant to be read line by line, especially in printed material that has multiple adjacent such on a single page.
   • It was too hard to read the text across the whole page, so I split it into two columns.
5. A unit of width, especially of advertisements, in a periodical, equivalent to the width of a usual column of text.
   • Each column inch costs $300 a week; this ad is four columns by three inches, so will run $3600 a week.
6. (broadly) A recurring feature in a periodical, especially an opinion piece, especially by a single author or small rotating group of authors, or on a single theme.
   • His initial foray into print media was as the author of a weekly column in his elementary-school newspaper.

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