Column vs. Pedestal

Columnnoun

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

Columnnoun

A vertical line of entries in a table, usually read from top to bottom.

Columnnoun

A body of troops or army vehicles, usually strung out along a road.

Columnnoun

A body of text meant to be read line by line, especially in printed material that has multiple adjacent such on a single page.

Columnnoun

A unit of width, especially of advertisements, in a periodical, equivalent to the width of a usual column of text.

Columnnoun

(by extension) 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.

Columnnoun

Something having similar vertical form or structure to the things mentioned above, such as a spinal column.

Columnnoun

(botany) The gynostemium

Columnnoun

(chemistry) An object used to separate the different components of a liquid or to purify chemical compounds.

Columnnoun

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.

Columnnoun

Anything resembling, in form or position, a column in 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.

Columnnoun

A body of troops formed in ranks, one behind the other; - contradistinguished from line. Compare Ploy, and Deploy.

Columnnoun

A number of ships so arranged as to follow one another in single or double file or in squadrons; - in distinction from "line", where they are side by side.

Columnnoun

A perpendicular set of lines, not extending across the page, and separated from other matter by a rule or blank space; as, a column in a newspaper.

Columnnoun

A perpendicular line of figures.

Columnnoun

The body formed by the union of the stamens in the Mallow family, or of the stamens and pistil in the orchids.

Columnnoun

one of a series of articles written in a periodical, usually under the same title and at regular intervals; it may be written and signed by one or more authors, or may appear pseudonymously or anonymously, as an editorial column.

Columnnoun

a line of (usually military) units following one after another

Columnnoun

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

Columnnoun

a linear array of numbers one above another

Columnnoun

anything tall and thin approximating the shape of a column or tower;

Columnnoun

an article giving opinions or perspectives

Columnnoun

a vertical structure standing alone and not supporting anything (as a monument or a column of air)

Columnnoun

(architeture) a tall cylindrical vertical upright and used to support a structure

Column

A column or pillar in architecture and structural engineering is a structural element that transmits, through compression, the weight of the structure above to other structural elements below. In other words, a column is a compression member.

Pedestalnoun

(architecture) The base or foot of a column, statue, vase, lamp.

Pedestalnoun

(figuratively) A place of reverence or honor.

Pedestalnoun

(rail transport) A casting secured to the frame of a truck of a railcar and forming a jaw for holding a journal box.

Pedestalnoun

(machining) A pillow block; a low housing.

Pedestalnoun

(bridge building) An iron socket, or support, for the foot of a brace at the end of a truss where it rests on a pier.

Pedestalnoun

(steam heating) a pedestal coil, group of connected straight pipes arranged side by side and one above another, used in a radiator.

Pedestalverb

To set or support on (or as if on) a pedestal.

Pedestalnoun

The base or foot of a column, statue, vase, lamp, or the like; the part on which an upright work stands. It consists of three parts, the base, the die or dado, and the cornice or surbase molding. See Illust. of Column.

Pedestalnoun

A short free-standing column or column-like object designed to support a work of art or other object; a column serving the same function as the base of a statue. It may be made of wood, marble, or other suitable material.

Pedestalnoun

A part of a desk which contains a frame and drawers, stands on the floor, and provides support for the desk surface. There may be zero, one, or two such pedestals in a desk.

Pedestalnoun

A casting secured to the frame of a truck and forming a jaw for holding a journal box.

Pedestalnoun

a support or foundation;

Pedestalnoun

a position of great esteem (and supposed superiority);

Pedestalnoun

an architectural support or base (as for a column or statue)

Pedestal

A pedestal (from French piédestal, Italian piedistallo 'foot of a stall') or plinth is the support of a statue or a vase, and of a column in architecture. Smaller pedestals, especially if round in shape, may be called socles.