Fifth vs. Column

Fifthadjective

The ordinal form of the number five.

Fifthnoun

The person or thing in the fifth position.

Fifthnoun

One of five equal parts of a whole.

Fifthnoun

The fifth gear of an engine.

Fifthnoun

A quantity of liquor equal to one-fifth of a gallon, or, more commonly, 750 milliliters.

Fifthnoun

The musical interval between one note and another seven semitones higher (the fifth note in the major/minor scale)

Fifthnoun

The fifth voice in a polyphonic melody.

Fifthverb

A music technique. en

Fifthverb

To support something fifth, after four others have already done so.

Fifthadjective

Next in order after the fourth; - the ordinal of five.

Fifthadjective

Consisting of one of five equal divisions of a thing.

Fifthnoun

The quotient of a unit divided by five; one of five equal parts; a fifth part.

Fifthnoun

The interval of three tones and a semitone, embracing five diatonic degrees of the scale; the dominant of any key.

Fifthnoun

a quantity of liquor equal to one fifth of a United States gallon

Fifthnoun

position five in a countable series of things;

Fifthnoun

a fifth part

Fifthnoun

the musical interval between one note and another five notes away from it

Fifthadjective

coming next after the fourth and just before the sixth in position

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.