column

I

(New American Roget's College Thesaurus)

n. pillar, shaft; formation (of troops, figures, etc.); article, byline. See continuity, rotundity, support, combatant, news, height.

II

(Roget's IV) n.

1. [A post]

Syn. pillar, support, prop, shaft, monument, totem, pylon, obelisk, stele, standard, tower, minaret, cylinder, mast, caryatid, telamon, peristyle, monolith, upright, pedestal, pilaster, pier; see also post 1 .

Types of architectural columns include: fluted, plain, round, square, Egyptian, Doric, Greek, Corinthian, Ionic, Composite, Roman, Romanesque, Tuscan, Gothic.

2. [Journalistic commentary]

Syn. comment, feature article, editorial, syndicated column; see article 2 , exposition 2 .

3. [A military formation]

Syn. single file, string, platoon, company; see army 2 , caravan , line 1 .

III

(Roget's 3 Superthesaurus) n.

1. pillar support, pilaster, post, pier, upright, shaft, pylon.

WORD FIND

• base: plinth, pedestal

• classical orders: Ionic, Doric, Corinthian, Composite, Tuscan

• eight columns, having: octastyle

• five columns, having: pentastyle

• four columns, having: tetrastyle

• man-figure column: atlas

• porch, columned: portico

• series of: colonnade

• six columns, having: hexastyle

• ten columns, having: decastyle

• top: capital

• two columns, having: distyle

• woman-figure column: caryatid

see architecture, building

2. line row, file, formation, string, procession, train.

IV

(Roget's Thesaurus II) noun A group of people or things arranged in a row: file, line, queue, rank1, row1, string, tier. See GROUP.