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# column

noun (column, columns)

«column» in the English dictionary: everyday and in Jewish tradition — its meanings, how the lessons use it, and examples, each with its tree on Mova.

## Everyday

1. A column is a line of things going straight up and down, one under another. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/column/#m1)
2. In a table, a column runs up and down and a row runs across. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/column/#m2)
3. A column is a tall stone post that holds up a roof. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/column/#m3)
4. A column is also a regular article in a newspaper, or a long line of marching people. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/column/#m4)

### In the lessons

maths: things set in columns and rows, as in arrays of chairs, desks or stamps; the number in each column times the number of columns gives the total; place-value columns (ones, tens, hundreds); column addition; tables and charts; history: Greek and Roman columns; everyday life: columns in a newspaper

### Examples

- The chairs are in 6 columns with 5 chairs in each. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/column/#x1)
- Each column of the table has 8 numbers. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/column/#x2)
- Mia puts 4 stickers in each column. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/column/#x3)
- How many columns of 3 can she make with 21 cards? [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/column/#x4)
- Write the tens in the tens column. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/column/#x5)
- The old temple has tall stone columns. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/column/#x6)
- Add the numbers in the column. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/column/#x7)
- A column of soldiers marched past. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/column/#x8)
- Then he saw the statue on the tall column. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/column/#x9)

### Note

Columns and rows point to multiplication (columns × things in each) or to division when the total is shared into columns. Trap: do not mix up rows and columns when the problem gives both: columns go up and down, rows go across. The n is silent: say «KOL-um».

## In Jewish tradition

maths: things set in columns and rows, as in arrays of chairs, desks or stamps; the number in each column times the number of columns gives the total; place-value columns (ones, tens, hundreds); column addition; tables and charts; history: Greek and Roman columns; everyday life: columns in a newspaper

### Examples

- He hewed, as it were, immense column or colossal pillars, out of the intangible air, and from the empty space. (Sefer Yetzirah, Westcott 1887) [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/C/column/#x1)
- ')) Some Pythagoreans used the strokes with the principle of \|iosi- tion without a zero in the columns of an abacus i Ur. (Mordell, The Origin of Letters and Numerals according to Sefer Yetzirah (1914)) [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/C/column/#x2)

### Note

Columns and rows point to multiplication (columns × things in each) or to division when the total is shared into columns. Trap: do not mix up rows and columns when the problem gives both: columns go up and down, rows go across. The n is silent: say «KOL-um».

## On Mova

- [Trees and pragmatics of «column» in the school dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/column/): every meaning and example parsed by Mova, with its dependency tree and frames.
- [«column» in the school dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/school/w/column.html) on Mova free.
- [Trees and pragmatics of «column» in the Judaism dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/C/column/): every meaning and example parsed by Mova, with its dependency tree and frames.
- [«column» in the Judaism dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/judaism/w/column.html) on Mova free.