Column vs. Tower

Columnnoun

(architecture) A solid upright structure designed usually to support a larger structure above it, such as a roof or horizontal beam, but sometimes for decoration.

Towernoun

A very tall iron-framed structure, usually painted red and white, on which microwave, radio, satellite, or other communication antennas are installed; mast.

Columnnoun

A vertical line of entries in a table, usually read from top to bottom.

Towernoun

A similarly framed structure with a platform or enclosed area on top, used as a lookout for spotting fires, plane crashes, fugitives, etc.

Columnnoun

A body of troops or army vehicles, usually strung out along a road.

Towernoun

A water tower.

Columnnoun

A body of text meant to be read line by line, especially in printed material that has multiple adjacent such on a single page.

‘It was too hard to read the text across the whole page, so I split it into two columns.’;

Towernoun

A control tower.

Columnnoun

A unit of width, especially of advertisements, in a periodical, equivalent to the width of a usual column of text.

‘Each column inch costs $300 a week; this ad is four columns by three inches, so will run $3600 a week.’;

Towernoun

Any very tall building or structure; skyscraper.

‘The Sears Tower’;

Columnnoun

(by extension) A recurring feature in a periodical, especially an opinion piece, especially by a single author or small rotating group of authors, or on a single theme.

‘His initial foray into print media was as the author of a weekly column in his elementary-school newspaper.’;

Towernoun

(figuratively) Any item, such as a computer case, that is usually higher than it is wide.

Columnnoun

Something having similar vertical form or structure to the things mentioned above, such as a spinal column.

Towernoun

(informal) An interlocking tower.

Columnnoun

(botany) The gynostemium

Towernoun

(figurative) A strong refuge; a defence.

Columnnoun

(chemistry) An object used to separate the different components of a liquid or to purify chemical compounds.

Towernoun

(historical) A tall fashionable headdress worn in the time of King William III and Queen Anne.

Columnnoun

A kind of pillar; a cylindrical or polygonal support for a roof, ceiling, statue, etc., somewhat ornamented, and usually composed of base, shaft, and capital. See Order.

Towernoun

(obsolete) High flight; elevation.

Columnnoun

Anything resembling, in form or position, a column in architecture; an upright body or mass; a shaft or obelisk; as, a column of air, of water, of mercury, etc.; the Column Vendôme; the spinal column.

Towernoun

The sixteenth trump or Major Arcana card in many Tarot decks, usually deemed an ill omen.

Columnnoun

A body of troops formed in ranks, one behind the other; - contradistinguished from line. Compare Ploy, and Deploy.

Towernoun

(cartomancy) The nineteenth Lenormand card, representing structure, bureaucracy, stability and loneliness.

Columnnoun

A number of ships so arranged as to follow one another in single or double file or in squadrons; - in distinction from "line", where they are side by side.

Towernoun

One who tows.

Columnnoun

A perpendicular set of lines, not extending across the page, and separated from other matter by a rule or blank space; as, a column in a newspaper.

Towerverb

(intransitive) To be very tall.

‘The office block towered into the sky.’;

Columnnoun

A perpendicular line of figures.

Towerverb

(intransitive) To be high or lofty; to soar.

Columnnoun

The body formed by the union of the stamens in the Mallow family, or of the stamens and pistil in the orchids.

Towerverb

To soar into.

Columnnoun

one of a series of articles written in a periodical, usually under the same title and at regular intervals; it may be written and signed by one or more authors, or may appear pseudonymously or anonymously, as an editorial column.

Towernoun

A mass of building standing alone and insulated, usually higher than its diameter, but when of great size not always of that proportion.

Columnnoun

a line of (usually military) units following one after another

Towernoun

A citadel; a fortress; hence, a defense.

‘Thou hast been a shelter for me, and a strong tower from the enemy.’;

Columnnoun

a vertical glass tube used in column chromatography; a mixture is poured in the top and washed through a stationary substance where components of the mixture are adsorbed selectively to form colored bands

Towernoun

A headdress of a high or towerlike form, fashionable about the end of the seventeenth century and until 1715; also, any high headdress.

‘Lay trains of amorous intriguesIn towers, and curls, and periwigs.’;

Columnnoun

a linear array of numbers one above another

Towernoun

High flight; elevation.

Columnnoun

anything tall and thin approximating the shape of a column or tower;

‘the test tube held a column of white powder’; ‘a tower of dust rose above the horizon’; ‘a thin pillar of smoke betrayed their campsite’;

Towerverb

To rise and overtop other objects; to be lofty or very high; hence, to soar.

‘On the other side an high rock towered still.’; ‘My lord protector's hawks do tower so well.’;

Columnnoun

an article giving opinions or perspectives

Towerverb

To soar into.

Columnnoun

a vertical structure standing alone and not supporting anything (as a monument or a column of air)

Towernoun

a structure taller than its diameter; can stand alone or be attached to a larger building

Columnnoun

(architeture) a tall cylindrical vertical upright and used to support a structure

Towernoun

anything tall and thin approximating the shape of a column or tower;

‘the test tube held a column of white powder’; ‘a tower of dust rose above the horizon’; ‘a thin pillar of smoke betrayed their campsite’;

Column

A column or pillar in architecture and structural engineering is a structural element that transmits, through compression, the weight of the structure above to other structural elements below. In other words, a column is a compression member.

Towernoun

a powerful small boat designed to pull or push larger ships

Towerverb

appear very large or occupy a commanding position;

‘The huge sculpture predominates over the fountain’; ‘Large shadows loomed on the canyon wall’;

Towernoun

a tall, narrow building, either free-standing or forming part of a building such as a church or castle

‘the south-west tower is a wonderful example of late Gothic’;

Towernoun

a fortress or stronghold in the form of or including a tower.

Towernoun

see Tower of London

Towernoun

a tall structure that houses machinery, operators, etc.

‘a control tower’;

Towernoun

a tall structure used as a receptacle or for storage

‘a CD tower’;

Towernoun

a tall pile or mass of something

‘a titanic tower of garbage’;

Towerverb

rise to or reach a great height

‘he seemed to tower over everyone else’;

Towerverb

(of a bird) soar to a great height, especially (of a falcon) so as to be able to swoop down on the quarry.

Tower

A tower is a tall structure, taller than it is wide, often by a significant factor. Towers are distinguished from masts by their lack of guy-wires and are therefore, along with tall buildings, self-supporting structures.