column
pillar a | (architecture) a tall vertical cylindrical structure standing upright and used to support a structure |
| column pillar | a vertical cylindrical structure standing alone and not supporting anything (such as a monument) |
| column chromatography column | 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 |
lally
lally column | support column consisting of a steel cylinder filled with concrete |
| support column | a column that supports a heavy weight |
| column | any tubular or pillar-like supporting structure in the body |
spinal column
vertebral column
spine
backbone
back rachis | the series of vertebrae forming the axis of the skeleton and protecting the spinal cord, the fall broke his back |
| column | a page or text that is vertically divided, the newspaper devoted several columns to the subject, the bookkeeper used pages that were divided into columns |
column
editorial
newspaper column | an article giving opinions or perspectives |
| agony column | a newspaper column devoted to personal problems |
fifth column
Trojan horse | a subversive group that supports the enemy and engages in espionage or sabotage, an enemy in your midst |
| column | a line of units following one after another |
| column | a vertical array of numbers or other information, he added a column of numbers |
Begin
Menachem Begin | Israeli statesman (born in Russia) who (as prime minister of Israel) negotiated a peace treaty with Anwar Sadat (then the president of Egypt) (-) |
| column chromatography | chromatography that uses selective adsorption by a column of powders |
column inch
inch | a unit of measurement for advertising space |
column tower
pillar | anything that approximates 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 |
get down
begin
get start out
start
set about
set out
commence | take the first step or steps in carrying out an action, We began working at dawn, Who will start?, Get working as soon as the sun rises!, The first tourists began to arrive in Cambodia, He began early in the day, Let's get down to work now |
begin lead off
start commence | set in motion, cause to start, The U.S. started a war in the Middle East, The Iraqis began hostilities, begin a new chapter in your life |
| begin | begin to speak or say, Now listen, friends, he began |
| begin | begin to speak, understand, read, and write a language, She began Russian at an early age, We started French in fourth grade |
| begin | achieve or accomplish in the least degree, usually used in the negative, This economic measure doesn't even begin to deal with the problem of inflation, You cannot even begin to understand the problem we had to deal with during the war |
| begin start | begin an event that is implied and limited by the nature or inherent function of the direct object, begin a cigar, She started the soup while it was still hot, We started physics ith grade |
begin
start | have a beginning, in a temporal, spatial, or evaluative sense, The DMZ begins right over the hill, The second movement begins after the Allegro, Prices for these homes start at $, |
| begin start | have a beginning characterized in some specified way, The novel begins with a murder, My property begins with the three maple trees, Her day begins with a workout, The semester begins with a convocation ceremony |
| begin | have a beginning, of a temporal event, WW II began in when Hitler marched into Poland, The company's Asia tour begins next month |
| begin | be the first item or point, constitute the beginning or start, come first in a series, The number `one' begins the sequence, A terrible murder begins the novel, The convocation ceremony officially begins the semester |
in the first place earlier in the beginning to begin with
originally | before now, why didn't you tell me in the first place? |