column
part of speech
noun (column, columns)
meaning for a pupil
1) A column is a line of things going straight up and down, one under another. tree →
2) In a table, a column runs up and down and a row runs across. tree →
3) A column is a tall stone post that holds up a roof. tree →
4) A column is also a regular article in a newspaper, or a long line of marching people. tree →
sense 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 →
- Each column of the table has 8 numbers. tree →
- Mia puts 4 stickers in each column. tree →
- How many columns of 3 can she make with 21 cards? tree →
- Write the tens in the tens column. tree →
- The old temple has tall stone columns. tree →
- Add the numbers in the column. tree →
- A column of soldiers marched past. tree →
- Then he saw the statue on the tall column. tree →
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 the corpora
- Above them are «royal sources», newspaper columns and online guesses — some right, many wrong, none of them checkable.
- Look for a photo, a caption under it and columns too.
- Newspaper features include a headline, a photo, a caption and columns.
- Pliny the Younger wrote an eyewitness account of the AD 79 eruption, and tall ash-column eruptions are now called Plinian.
- A tornado is a narrow spinning column of air that reaches from a thunderstorm cloud down to the ground.
Trees and pragmatics
Every meaning and example of «column» parsed by Mova, each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.