COLUMNS

"COLUMNS" is a plural of: column.

Date "COLUMNS" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1050. (references)

Synonym: COLUMNS

Crosswords: COLUMNS

The demolitions committee of Project Mayhem wrapped the foundation columns of a dozen buildings with blasting gelatin (Fight Club; writing credit: Jim Uhls)

The columns date all the way back to 1972 (Clueless; writing credit: Amy Heckerling.)

How a French Nobleman Got a Wife Through the 'New York Herald' Personal Columns (1904)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Books

• Basic Concepts, Columns, Beams and Plates, Volume 1, Buckling Experiments: Experimental Methods in Buckling of Thin-Walled Structures (reference)

• Blunt Offerings: Select Irreverentia from the Cartoonist's Columns (reference)

• Kick Ass: Selected Columns of Carl Hiaasen (reference)

• Paradise Screwed: Selected Columns of Carl Hiaasen (reference)

• The Best of Adair Lara: Prize Winning Columns from the San Francisco Chronicle (reference)

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Periodicals

• Columns (reference)

• Columns - Drugs & Supplements (reference)

• Columns Isfhwe (reference)

• Council Columns (reference)

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High Tech

• Columns Crown (reference)

• Genesis 2 System with Columns (reference)

• Super Columns (reference)

• PEERLESS EXT-102 Fixed Length Extension Columns for JMC Series Ceiling Mounts - 2 (reference)

• PEERLESS EXT-104 Fixed Length Extension Columns for JMC Series Ceiling Mounts - 4 (reference)

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Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

This patient had developed a perforating ulcer of great toe resulting from tabes dorsalis, a form of neurosyphilis. This condition results from the destruction of the dorsal columns in the spinal cord, normally responsible for ones position sense. Credit: CDC.

This image shows severe demyelinization of the posterior columns of the spinal cord due to long-standing syphilis disease. This can result in a staggering, wide-based gait, postural instability, pain and paresthesias; Myelin stain; magnification 450X. Credit: CDC.

Columns of cool interstellar hydrogen gas and dust in M16, the Eagle Nebula. Credit: NASA.

Crystals, ice columns, and refrozen ice. Credit: Paths Less Taken - NOAA at the Ends of the Earth.

Ice stalactites, columns of ice, refrozen floor of cave, and ice crystals. Credit: Paths Less Taken - NOAA at the Ends of the Earth.

Isolated Columns of basaltHexagonal BasaltUCSCUpper Columbia Salmon Clearwater District. Credit: Terry Maley.

Basalt columns with fracturesFour RiversLSRDLower Snake River District. Credit: Terry Maley.

Veranda and doorway. Photograph by L.D. Andrew, May 1936. (Reproduction Number: HABS, GA,108-COLM,4-1) Begun in 1859 for the wealthy Scottish immigrant James A. Rankin but not completed until after the Civil War, this town house combines different building materials and details from a number of historical architectural styles. The ironwork shown here on the veranda is based on the Gothic architecture of medieval England and France. The Corinthian columns of the doorway behind it, on the other hand, call to mind the classical architecture of ancient Greece and Rome. The Rankin House is an excellent example of Eclecticism architecture, the term used to describe the mixing of different styles and materials in buildings. Credit: Library of Congress.

West (door) elevation. Photograph by Gerda Peterich, September 1962. (Reproduction Number: HABS ME,3-PORTS,1-2) This unusual-looking lighthouse is built of curved cast-iron plates whose seams are cleverly disguised by six decorative Corinthian columns. Built in 1855 and rebuilt twenty years later, the lighthouse may have been the work of Thomas Ustick Walter, designer of the dome of the U.S. Capitol in Washington. The lighthouse's flashing red beacon helped guide ships from Casco Bay through the entrance to Portland Harbor. Wooden sheds and a six-room house for the lighthouse-keeper were added at a later date but have since been removed. The lighthouse itself was abandoned in 1943. Credit: Library of Congress.

U.S. Navy minelayers proceeding to sea in two columns, in Area Number 2 of the North Sea, September 1918. Ships in the column at left are (from front to rear): Roanoke, Housatonic, Quinnebaug and Baltimore. Ships in column at right are (from front to rear): Canonicus (out of picture, to right), Canandaigua, Aroostook and Saranac. Note disruptive "dazzle" camouflage worn by these ships. Credit: NAVY.

Source: pictures compiled by the editor from various references; see picture credits.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Except in the British Commonwealth and in the United States where Communism is in its infancy, the Communist parties or fifth columns constitute a growing challenge and peril to Christian civilization. ("Iron Curtain" Speech)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Two or three of these columns had disappeared in the fires of these bivouacs, and had warmed the huge hands of the kaiserlics

In the day ancient leaky radiators sent up columns of steam, loose connecting rods hammered and pounded

We sat together four hours, in which time I wrote down a great number of words in columns, with the translations over against them

Also, our sentences wanted room to unfold and form their columns in the interval

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Business

Even now, nearly all construction is with reinforced concrete columns and slabs. (references)

A glance at the market share columns in table 7 and 8 shows how dependent firms are on only one or two products for their commercial existence. (references)

The major purchasing information sources are exhibitions, recommendation by others, commercials, columns or reviews, and news release presentations. (references)

Civil Liberties

Uganda

The columns of three of the journalists were reinstated 3 weeks later; the fourth journalist transferred to another paper. (references)

Grenada

The newspapers routinely carry press releases by the opposition parties, including regular weekly columns expressing the opposition parties' views. (references)

Brazil

In signed newspaper columns, Fraga had accused Federal Deputy (and former state governor) Max Mauro of involvement in organized crime and drug trafficking. (references)

Economic History

Panama

Advertising prices: US$11.50 per columnar inch, each page 6 columns of 21 inches. (references)

Ukraine

The best prospects for U.S. companies include: pipeline construction equipment (compressors and pumps for pipeline applications+ADs- gas transmission systems+ADs- gas pipeline leaks control systems+ADs- gas pipe fittings and applications+ADs- welding machines, cranes, pipe-cleaning equipment, and line trend machines)+ADs- advanced and highly efficient oil and gas exploration and drilling equipment and technologies (pontoons supported on columns, hoisting cranes, drilling rigs, bits, electric motors, winch rollers, rotary tables, sheds, hoisting blocks, monkey boards, crown blocks, gin holes, shackles, cutting, roller and diamond bits, casing sleeves, chemicals, stimulation technologies, modern 3-D seismic, particularly for offshore projects where Ukrainian technology is very limited)+ADs- equipment for atmospheric-vacuum oil refining+ADs- modernization and increasing of hydro-cracking and catalytic cracking capacities+ADs- units for catalytic transformation of distillates+ADs- industrial automation, control and monitoring systems for refineries, gas processing and petrochemical plants+ADs- desulfurization and quality control facilities+ADs- safety systems+ADs- fuel dispensers, fuel storage tanks, fuel level monitoring and accounting systems. (references)

Human Rights

Colombia

On November 16, combined FARC and ELN columns attacked the town of Bolivar, Cauca department. (references)

Minorities

Russia

In another high-profile case on September 23, vandals spray-painted swastikas and other anti-Semitic graffiti on the front columns of the main entrance to Moscow's Choral Synagogue. (references)

Trade

Bulgaria

Bulgaria's tariff schedules consist of two columns of rates. (references)

Japan

Japan's tariff schedule has four columns of applicable rates: general, WTO, preferential, and temporary. (references)

Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits.

Expressions using "COLUMNS": columns in document mode ♦ equal columns ♦ form a regiment into columns ♦ Grouped columns ♦ labels in three columns ♦ labels in two columns ♦ parallel columns ♦ persian columns ♦ to freeze rows and columns ♦ to hide columns. Additional references.

Beginning with "COLUMNS": columns-compact.

Ending with "COLUMNS": death-columns, half-columns, lotus-columns.

Chinese 

編隊 (form into columns, formation, organize into teams). (various references)

Danish

colimnae anales (anal columns), columnae griseae (grey columns), columnae renales (renal columns), columnae rugarum (columns of rugae), funiculi medullae spinalis (white columns of spinal cord), autovaern opsaettes under ingen omstaendigheder bagved,men altid foran lysmaster (never behind them, safety fences/crash barriers/safety barriers/ should always be erected in front of lighting columns), avisspalter (column snaking, newspaper-style columns), blod-og urinproever passerer en ionbytter-resin anbragt i et glasroer (the blood and urine samples are passed over a resin ion-exchanger placed in glass columns), de saakaldte semisubmersible/halvnedsaenkbare platforme hviler ved hjaelp af ben paa flydende pontoner,der ved ballastering nedsaenkes til betydelige dybder (or floats, semi-submersible platforms are supported by a system of tubular members and stabilising columns connected to pontoons, which are ballasted to a draught of 20 metres or more), afbalancerede spalter (column balance, equal columns), etiketter i tre kolonner (labels in three columns), system med to pakkede kolonner (system with packed twin columns), låse rækker og søjler (to freeze rows and columns), låsning af rækker og søjler (to freeze rows and columns), labels i to kolonner (labels in two columns), labels i tre kolonner (labels in three columns), Morgagni's soejler (anal columns), parallelle spalter (columns in document mode, parallel columns, side-by-side columns), søjlespalter (columns in document mode, parallel columns, side-by-side columns), skjule søjler (to hide columns), etiketter i to kolonner (labels in two columns). (various references)

Dutch

columna rectalis (anal columns), columna van Morgagni (anal columns), columnae bertini (renal columns), columnae cristarum vaginae (columns of rugae), columnae griseae (grey columns), columnae plicarum (columns of rugae), columnae renales (renal columns), columnae rugarum (columns of rugae), columnae rugarum vaginae (columns of rugae), columna analis (anal columns), etiketten in drie kolommen (labels in three columns), de bloed- en urinemonsters passeren een kunstharsionenuitwisselaar, die zich in een glazen buis bevindt (the blood and urine samples are passed over a resin ion-exchanger placed in glass columns), de z.g.diepdrijvende platforms rustens via zuilen op pontons die,door volpompen met water,op grote diepte worden gebracht (or floats, semi-submersible platforms are supported by a system of tubular members and stabilising columns connected to pontoons, which are ballasted to a draught of 20 metres or more), eenvoudige verbindingen tussen kolommen en liggers mogelijk maken (facilitate easy connections between columns and girders), systeem met dubbele gepakte kolommen (system with packed twin columns), etiketten in twee kolommen (labels in two columns), geleiderails mogen nooit achter lichtmasten worden geplaatst,maar dienen zich steeds ervoor te bevinden (never behind them, safety fences/crash barriers/safety barriers/ should always be erected in front of lighting columns), grijze zuilen (grey columns), in evenwicht brengen van kolommen (column balance, equal columns), kolom in krantestijl (column snaking, newspaper-style columns), kolommen in documentmodus (columns in document mode, parallel columns, side-by-side columns), kolommen verbergen (to hide columns), Korps Mobiele Colonnes (Disaster Relief Corps, Mobile Columns Corps), parallelle kolommen (columns in document mode, parallel columns, side-by-side columns), rijen en kolommen vastleggen (to freeze rows and columns), septum renis (renal columns), draagpijlers (supporting columns). (various references)

Finnish

yhtäleveät palstat (column balance, equal columns), tarrat kolmessa sarakkeessa (labels in three columns), tarrat kahdessa sarakkeessa (labels in two columns), sanomalehtipalstat (column snaking, newspaper-style columns), rinnakkaiset palstat (columns in document mode, parallel columns, side-by-side columns), piilottaa sarakkeet (to hide columns), palstatasapaino (column balance, equal columns), jäädyttää rivit ja sarakkeet (to freeze rows and columns). (various references)

French

cornes (grey columns), colonnes de Bertin (renal columns), colonnes de Morgagni (anal columns), colonnes de soutien (supporting columns), colonnes de type "journal" (column snaking, newspaper-style columns), colonnes du rectum (anal columns), colonnes du vagin (columns of rugae), colonnes en mode "document" (columns in document mode, parallel columns, side-by-side columns), colonnes en parallèle (columns in document mode, parallel columns, side-by-side columns), cordons de la moelle (white columns of spinal cord), cornes de la moelle épinière (grey columns), cryotechnologie de séparation de l'air (technology which involves a multi-step and relatively complex process: Air is liquefied at very low temperatures and then separated into its components, which are removed at different levels in distillation columns), colonnes parallèles (columns in document mode, parallel columns, side-by-side columns), mode "journal" (column snaking, newspaper-style columns), étiquettes doubles en largeur (labels in two columns), étiquettes triples en largeur (labels in three columns), balance des colonnes (column balance, equal columns), bloquer des colonnes et des lignes (to freeze rows and columns), système à double colonne remplie (system with packed twin columns), presse hydraulique à colonnes (hydraulic press with columns), passage des échantillons de sang et d'urine sur une résine échangeuse d'ions mise en colonnes de verre (the blood and urine samples are passed over a resin ion-exchanger placed in glass columns), faciliter les assemblages de poteaux et de poutres (facilitate easy connections between columns and girders), masquer des colonnes (to hide columns), les plates-formes dites semi-submersibles reposent par l'intermédiaire de piles sur des flotteurs immergés,par ballastage,à des profondeurs importantes (semi-submersible platforms are supported by a system of tubular members and stabilising columns connected to pontoons), les glissières de sécurité ne doivent en aucun cas être implantées derrière les candélabres,mais toujours devant ceux-ci (safety fences/crash barriers/safety barriers/ should always be erected in front of lighting columns), équilibrage des colonnes (column balance, equal columns), geler des lignes et des colonnes (to freeze rows and columns), Unité de lutte contre les catastrophes (Disaster Relief Corps, Mobile Columns Corps), figer des colonnes et des lignes (to freeze rows and columns), présentation"journal" (column snaking, newspaper-style columns). (various references)

German

Spalten (chinks, chop, cleave, clefts, colons, crack, crevices, decompose, disunite, fissures, partition, Rive, slot, splinter, split, to chop, to decompose). (various references)

Greek 

στήλεσ. (various references)

Italian

colonne vaginali (columns of rugae), colonne a modo giornale (column snaking, newspaper-style columns), colonne anali (anal columns), colonne del retto (anal columns), colonne di Bertin (renal columns), colonne di Morgagni (anal columns), colonne di sostegno (supporting columns), colonne grige del midollo spinale (grey columns), colonne parallele (columns in document mode, parallel columns, side-by-side columns), colonne a modo documento (columns in document mode, parallel columns, side-by-side columns), colonne uguali (column balance, equal columns), congelare righe e colonne (to freeze rows and columns), colonne renali (renal columns), veste tipografica a giornale (column snaking, newspaper-style columns), equilibratura delle colonne (column balance, equal columns), etichette su due colonne (labels in two columns), etichette su tre colonne (labels in three columns), facilitare il collegamento spedito fra colonne e travi (facilitate easy connections between columns and girders), le barriere di protezione devono essere sempre disposte anteriormente ai pali dell'illuminazione e non dietro di essi (never behind them, safety fences/crash barriers/safety barriers/ should always be erected in front of lighting columns), le piattaforme dette semisommergibili poggiano-tramite colonne-su elementi galleggianti immersi,mediante zavorramento,a delle consistenti profondità (or floats, semi-submersible platforms are supported by a system of tubular members and stabilising columns connected to pontoons, which are ballasted to a draught of 20 metres or more), nascondere delle colonne (to hide columns), passaggio dei campioni di sangue e di urina su resina sintetica sostitutrice di ioni messa in un tubo di vetro (the blood and urine samples are passed over a resin ion-exchanger placed in glass columns). (various references)

Japanese Kanji 

霜柱 (frost columns, ice needles). (various references)

Japanese Katakana 

しもばしら (frost columns, ice needles), きし (bank, banner, coast, emblem, ensign, exposing a corpse in the city, flag, knight, last child, saving from the brink of death, shogi player, shore, sixth of the sexagenary cycle, term of respect in addressing ladies or anothers older sister, your columns, your honored paper, your journal, your magazine, your paper), ふらん (decompose, decomposition, hatching, incubation, space without columns, ulcerate, ulceration), にゅうどうぐも (cumulo-nimbus, gigantic columns of clouds), けいざいらん (financial columns). (various references)

Pig Latin

olumnscay.(various references)

Portuguese

criotecnologia de separação do ar (cryogenic air separation technology, technology which involves a multi-step and relatively complex process: Air is liquefied at very low temperatures and then separated into its components, which are removed at different levels in distillation columns), colunas paralelas (columns in document mode, parallel columns, side-by-side columns), colunas iguais (column balance, equal columns), colunas do tipo jornal (column snaking, newspaper-style columns), coluna de Bertin (renal columns), poste de iluminação.As guardas de segurança não devem em caso algum ser implantadas atrás do posta de iluminação mas sempre à frente (never behind them, safety fences/crash barriers/safety barriers/ should always be erected in front of lighting columns), passagem das amostras de sangue e de urina por uma resina permutadora de iões colocada em colunas de vidro (the blood and urine samples are passed over a resin ion-exchanger placed in glass columns), facilitar a ligação de pilares e de vigas (facilitate easy connections between columns and girders), etiquetas em três colunas (labels in three columns), etiquetas em duas colunas (labels in two columns), esconder colunas (to hide columns), equilíbrio de colunas (column balance, equal columns), bloquear linhas e colunas (to freeze rows and columns). (various references)

Romanian

dispune un regiment în coloane (form a regiment into columns). (various references)

Russian 

на страницах нашей газеты (in our columns). (various references)

Spanish

criotecnología de separación de aire (cryogenic air separation technology, technology which involves a multi-step and relatively complex process: Air is liquefied at very low temperatures and then separated into its components, which are removed at different levels in distillation columns), columnas de la vagina (columns of rugae), columnas de Morgagni (anal columns), columnas equilibradas (column balance, equal columns), columnas grises (grey columns), columnas paralelas (columns in document mode, parallel columns, side-by-side columns), columnas de Bertin (renal columns), congelar filas y columnas (to freeze rows and columns), columnas periodísticas (column snaking, newspaper-style columns), paso de muestras de sangre y de orina por una resina cambiadora de iones en columnas de vidrio (the blood and urine samples are passed over a resin ion-exchanger placed in glass columns), etiquetas a dos columnas (labels in two columns), etiquetas a tres columnas (labels in three columns), facilitar las ensambladuras de columnas y vigas (facilitate easy connections between columns and girders), las barreras de seguridad siempre se deben colocar delante de los postes de iluminación y nunca detrás de ellos (never behind them, safety fences/crash barriers/safety barriers/ should always be erected in front of lighting columns), las plataformas llamadas semisumergibles se apoyan, a través de un sistema de columnas, sobre elementos de flotación sumergibles, que se lastran para alcanzar profundidades de 20 metros o más (or floats, semi-submersible platforms are supported by a system of tubular members and stabilising columns connected to pontoons, which are ballasted to a draught of 20 metres or more), ocultar columnas (to hide columns). (various references)

Swedish

utjämnad kolumnhöjd (column balance, equal columns), tidningsspalt (column snaking, newspaper-style columns), register (account book, calendar, cartulary, enrollment, enrolment, index, range, record, register, register office, registry, repertory, roll, schedule, table), parallella spalter (columns in document mode, parallel columns, side-by-side columns), etiketter i två kolumner (labels in two columns), etiketter i tre kolumner (labels in three columns), dölja en kolumn (to hide columns). (various references)

Misspellings

"COLUMNS" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: calumnt, coeloms, colemn, collomn, collumn, colomn, coloumn, colum, columes, Columna, col-umns, columny, colums, columus, colunm, conumn, coolum, Coulins. (additional references)

Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits.

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

-1 letter: clonus, column, consul, locums.

-2 letters: clons, conus, culms, locum, locus, muons, solum, uncos.

-3 letters: clon, cols, cons, culm, lums, mocs, mols, mons, muns, muon, noms, nous, onus, scum, slum, soul, sumo, unco.

-4 letters: col, con, cos, cum, lum, moc, mol, mon, mos, mun, mus, nom, nos, nus, oms, ons, sol, som, son, sou, sum.

+2 letters: columnist, inoculums, molluscan, myoclonus.

+3 letters: calumnious, columbines, columnists, compulsion, consumable, consumedly, homunculus, lunchrooms, monoculars, nonmusical, nucleosome.

+4 letters: calmodulins, columnistic, communalism, communalist, compulsions, consumables, contumelies, couplements, cumulations, glucosamine, maculations, musclebound, myoclonuses, nucleoplasm, nucleosomal, nucleosomes, outmuscling, unmalicious.

+5 letters: californiums, calumniators, calumniously, communalisms, communalists, communalizes, connubialism, consummately, contumelious, culminations, cumulonimbus, emasculation, glucosamines, inconsumable, inconsumably, macronucleus, malfunctions, malocclusion, mendaciously, micronucleus, monocultures, mononuclears, mucilaginous, noctambulist, nucleoplasms.