noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
a column/plume of smoke
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He could see a thin black column of smoke rising vertically into the sky.
a newspaper column (= a regular article in a newspaper written by a particular journalist )
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She writes a regular newspaper column about gardening.
advice column
agony column
fifth column
gossip column
personal column
spinal column
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADJECTIVE
long
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Pictures were almost non-existent, long columns of grey, illegible type propped up its pages.
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Soldiers, in half-mile-\#long columns , paraded through town.
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I turned and saw a long blue column approaching with a corporal in charge.
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I count a hundred eighty-five mov-ing along the shore in a long column , three or four bodies deep.
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Every few minutes the guns would halt as some obstruction worked its way down the long column .
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Warren happened to ride toward the point in the long column occupied by the brigade of General Stephen H.. Weed.
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Word was passed down the long column to close up, and to be ready to make a dash for the ford.
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He perused the long columns of journalistic licence which covered the Mercury's front page.
personal
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This month's personal finance column therefore takes a back to basics look at expatriate tax.
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When you do, place an advertisement in the personal column of the International Herald Tribune to read as follows.
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Clive Thornton contributed a personal finance column .
spinal
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Chiropractic Practitioners deal with the structural relationships between the nerve tissues and the spinal column .
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The central rod is known as the Sushumna and corresponds to the spinal column .
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Many neurologic disorders affecting the brain stem, cerebellum, and spinal cord posterior column may cause dizzy sensations.
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These are connected vertically to the idol along the spinal column , over the chakras and end at the head.
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The pinioned hands of the condemned man went suddenly white as the noose and the drop snapped his spinal column .
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They had rudimentary spinal columns and became the forerunners of fish.
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At intervals along its length groups of nerve fibres emerge from the spinal column to connect with the peripheral nervous system.
weekly
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Glasgow also had a weekly deaf column in the Glasgow Evening Times, written by a variety of people.
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Six weeks after I got there, my wish to write a weekly column was fulfilled.
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These are issues from which the sporting public is excluded other than in a weekly letters column .
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Perhaps unbeknown to you, the first lady has been churning out a weekly column since July 30 of last year.
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Before his Colette-Willy period he had contributed a weekly column of musical criticism to a Bordeaux newspaper.
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On top of the weekly columns , Brady has been a writing machine.
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Designing Minds is a weekly column exploring home and design issues, ideas and resources.
■ NOUN
gossip
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When such an article rises above the level of a gossip column , the artist's profile can be a valuable format.
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Without Deborah they did not add to any more than another name for the bars and gossip columns of New York.
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He made more gossip column copy than our delightful princess.
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When they stirred controversies, they were generally reported by the feature pages and gossip columns of newspapers.
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Harriet read film and gossip column mags voraciously.
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Her colourful opinions soon gave her a wider platform and she became a familiar face in the gossip columns .
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Back in London, her name began appearing in the gossip columns .
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Even colleagues assumed the gossip column staff spent most of their waking hours at parties.
inch
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Meanwhile, there was the question of his presents, to which much time and many column inches were devoted.
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Between this and stories on Burke of the Somme, Chant's death attracted a lot of column inches .
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A column inch is one column wide by one inch deep.
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We have this morning's here, Chock full of column inches on yourself.
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Now it merits but a few column inches in a few papers.
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The official excuse for a sudden wave sweeping every column inch of coverage is that a genuine revelation has occurred.
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And by the spring of 1988, the column inches devoted to her in Britain's tabloids were adding up to miles.
newspaper
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Best-selling books, magazine articles and newspaper columns publicised his ideas.
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Tony Lewis, the chairman, set out the rationale in his newspaper column .
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Thousands of people knew him from his radio and television appearances and weekly newspaper column for the Los Angeles Times.
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So disillusioned and grumpy is he that he writes a local newspaper column on the subject.
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Can this city survive without its traditional battalions of colorful characters swaggering through saloons and newspaper columns ?
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Instead, the information related solely to a forthcoming newspaper column which recommended the shares of particular companies.
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Should he try to write a newspaper column ?
■ VERB
appear
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Back in London, her name began appearing in the gossip columns .
display
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With a spreadsheet, you can display more rows and columns .
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The screen scrolls to the right, displaying the first four columns . 16.
enter
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The budget figures for the selected projects and the other resource-consuming activities are entered into the budget column and subtotals calculated.
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Press 2, then Enter , for two columns .
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At the review dates the expenditure per planning period is entered in the actual column opposite the relevant activity.
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Where agreed, they are entered into this column .
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This number is entered into the appropriate column .
move
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Turbulence produced by rapidly moving columns of air also generates low-frequency sounds.
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In the meantime, the 2d Battalion of the 271 Regiment, moving forward in a column , engaged the northernmost company.
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The various components of the mixture separate as they gradually move down the column .
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The solution? Move the column as a rectangle, not as a column.
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Component 1 has the higher partition coefficient and thus moves through the column faster.
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When you move a column , the tab codes on either side come with it.
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Always move the deleted column at once, otherwise you may lose it from the Scrap. 8 Tap Ins for Insert.
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We will now move the first column to the end of the table. 10.
read
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They've all read the Magpie column but arrive at differing conclusions.
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I read the column every Thursday and like it a lot.
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Harriet read film and gossip column mags voraciously.
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The first thing you should do, before you even read this column , is take the guided tour offered onscreen.
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I've started reading your column in the Sunday Express but that won't satisfy my insatiable appetite for your peerless wit.
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She must not read this column !
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As reading down the columns shows, the meanings of the phonetics, on the other hand, do not.
show
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The result of using the mean of each triple instead of the median is shown in columns 4 and 5 of figure 9.7.
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The tax rates shown in column 2 of Table 8-2 are marginal tax rates.
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Main storage technologies have similarly evolved, as shown in the fourth column of Figure 1.8.
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The adjusted figures are shown in the second column of Table 6.
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The frequencies of these breakage types are shown in columns 2 and 3 in Table 3.7.
support
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The arches are supported on columns with Composite capitals.
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Graceful, narrow arches supported by Corinthian columns flank its altar and frame its windows.
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The electronic zoo consists of a 9m grid coffered slab supported by reinforced columns .
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Each one has its silvery gray live-oak lintel, still supporting the column of lovely pink brick.
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The central space or nave was 280 feet long and 80 feet wide and the roof was supported on 96 granite columns .
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Our regiment was on the left, and supporting the assaulting column .
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These are great vaulted underground caverns, the roof supported by columns which display a wide variety of capital design.
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It was an ornate old lobby with great marble supporting columns and big pots of palms standing around.
write
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So disillusioned and grumpy is he that he writes a local newspaper column on the subject.
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On the board she had written two columns of phrases.
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He writes a daily showbiz column for them.
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Herb Caen wrote a column like that.
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Among other old boys: Johnny Giles writes a regular football column in the Daily Mail.
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He writes a monthly column for Wired and was an original investor.
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I even wrote a monthly column of book reviews plus a feature on newly released recordings, both popular and classical.
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Barry wrote a column about bad songs from the rock era and somehow managed to milk it into a book.
PHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
lonely hearts club/column/ad
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He met Dominique through a lonely hearts ad.
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How would you describe yourself in a lonely hearts ad?
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They talked about books, the theatre, cinema, where they lived, lonely hearts columns.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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Columns of factory workers waved banners.
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Columns of men and women were making their way towards the central square.
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a row of Greek columns
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a weekly column
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an advice column
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Did you read Julie Burchill's column in the Guardian this week?
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His column appears every other week in the local paper.
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Sales totals are shown in this column .
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The column of French soldiers passed us on their way to the battlefront.
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The article I told you about is in the left column .
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The car has an adjustable steering column .
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The first column is for expenses.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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By their shape, pillars signified trees, but also stone columns.
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Crowe offered a pathetic excuse about investigating woodworm infestation for his nature column , but I soon beetled the truth out of him.
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Effective rate for contracts entered into two days from date appearing at top of this column .
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In the Cathedral at Gurk there is a vast crypt possessing 100 columns which support a groined vault dating from 1160.
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Press 3 to turn on the column feature.
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Tabular setting text set in columns such as timetables.
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They want photo stories, tales of holiday romances, horoscopes and advice columns as well as free gifts of make-up and jewellery.
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This is particularly important when a column has entries of different lengths.