column

cột, trụ

1. A solid upright structure designed usually to support a larger structure above it, such as a roof or horizontal beam, but sometimes for decoration.Kết cấu vững chắc dựng thẳng đứng, thường dùng để đỡ mái hoặc dầm ngang bên trên, đôi khi dùng để trang trí.
2. A vertical line of entries in a table, usually read from top to bottom.Dãy các mục xếp theo chiều dọc trong bảng, thường được đọc từ trên xuống dưới.
3. A body of troops or army vehicles, usually strung out along a road.
4. A body of text meant to be read line by line, especially in printed material that has multiple adjacent such on a single page.
5. A unit of width, especially of advertisements, in a periodical, equivalent to the width of a usual column of text.

• It was too hard to read the text across the whole page, so I split it into two columns.
• Each column inch costs $300 a week; this ad is four columns by three inches, so will run $3600 a week.
• His initial foray into print media was as the author of a weekly column in his elementary-school newspaper.