Column vs. Stump

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.

Stumpnoun

The remains of something that has been cut off; especially the remains of a tree, the remains of a limb.

Stumpnoun

(politics) The place or occasion at which a campaign takes place; the husting.

Stumpnoun

(figurative) A place or occasion at which a person harangues or otherwise addresses a group in a manner suggesting political oration.

Stumpnoun

(cricket) One of three small wooden posts which together with the bails make the wicket and that the fielding team attempt to hit with the ball.

Stumpnoun

(drawing) An artists’ drawing tool made of rolled paper used to smudge or blend marks made with charcoal, Conté crayon, pencil or other drawing media.

Stumpnoun

A wooden or concrete pole used to support a house.

Stumpnoun

A leg.

Stumpnoun

A pin in a tumbler lock which forms an obstruction to throwing the bolt except when the gates of the tumblers are properly arranged, as by the key.

Stumpnoun

A pin or projection in a lock to form a guide for a movable piece.

Stumpverb

To stop, confuse, or puzzle.

Stumpverb

To baffle; to make unable to find an answer to a question or problem.

Stumpverb

(intransitive) To campaign.

Stumpverb

To travel over (a state, a district, etc.) giving speeches for electioneering purposes.

Stumpverb

To get a batsman out stumped.

Stumpverb

To bowl down the stumps of (a wicket).

Stumpverb

(intransitive) To walk heavily or clumsily, plod, trudge.

Stumpverb

(transitive) To reduce to a stump; to truncate or cut off a part of.

Stumpverb

(transitive) To strike unexpectedly; to stub, as the toe against something fixed.

Stumpnoun

The part of a tree or plant remaining in the earth after the stem or trunk is cut off; the stub.

Stumpnoun

The part of a limb or other body remaining after a part is amputated or destroyed; a fixed or rooted remnant; a stub; as, the stump of a leg, a finger, a tooth, or a broom.

Stumpnoun

The legs; as, to stir one's stumps.

Stumpnoun

One of the three pointed rods stuck in the ground to form a wicket and support the bails.

Stumpnoun

A short, thick roll of leather or paper, cut to a point, or any similar implement, used to rub down the lines of a crayon or pencil drawing, in shading it, or for shading drawings by producing tints and gradations from crayon, etc., in powder.

Stumpnoun

A pin in a tumbler lock which forms an obstruction to throwing the bolt, except when the gates of the tumblers are properly arranged, as by the key; a fence; also, a pin or projection in a lock to form a guide for a movable piece.

Stumpverb

To cut off a part of; to reduce to a stump; to lop.

Stumpverb

To strike, as the toes, against a stone or something fixed; to stub.

Stumpverb

To challenge; also, to nonplus.

Stumpverb

To travel over, delivering speeches for electioneering purposes; as, to stump a State, or a district. See To go on the stump, under Stump, n.

Stumpverb

To put (a batsman) out of play by knocking off the bail, or knocking down the stumps of the wicket he is defending while he is off his allotted ground; - sometimes with out.

Stumpverb

To walk clumsily, as if on stumps.

Stumpnoun

the base part of a tree that remains standing after the tree has been felled

Stumpnoun

the part of a limb or tooth that remains after the rest is removed

Stumpnoun

(cricket) any of three upright wooden posts that form the wicket

Stumpnoun

a platform raised above the surrounding level to give prominence to the person on it

Stumpverb

cause to be perplexed or confounded;

Stumpverb

walk heavily;

Stumpverb

travel through a district and make political speeches;

Stumpverb

remove tree stumps from;