"columns" is a correct and usable word in written English.
It can refer to either a structural element in architecture or a vertical arrangement of information in a table or graph. Here are some examples: - The ancient Greek temple was supported by rows of tall, marble columns. - In the newspaper, the financial section featured a column analyzing the stock market. - The spreadsheet had several columns for inputting different types of data. - The magazine's lifestyle column offered tips and advice on fashion and beauty. - The data was organized into two columns for easy comparison.
Just as I underestimated the sheer hard work involved in writing funny election columns, Cameron clearly thought being prime minister would be a lark, a breeze, and a wizard wheeze, something to chalk up on his business-class bucket list, along with getting a selfie with Helle Thorning-Schmidt and sucking the bass player from Blur's luxury cheese direct from the goat's teat.
As a teenager in California he had devoured Musto's Village Voice columns and been thunderstruck by seeing Arias sing Billie Holiday songs in 1988 cult documentary Mondo New York.
The Armenians were branded as an enemy within by the Ottoman government, which used the cover of the first world war to systematically dispose of more than 1 million people, forcing great columns of humanity to march off into the Syrian desert to die of heat, starvation and disease.
Suddenly, many sweets appear, lined up in rows and columns.
In April, the company announced the introduction of a new, always-on filter to ensure that the most obvious abuse didn't arrive in people's notification columns.
It is no coincidence, says Alawi, that the columns in the firing sights were inscribed with calligraphic poetry recounting Muhammad's journeys and associated sites of pilgrimage.
Long before he reached that the statistical columns were being perused for precedents in the fourth innings of a Headingley Test.
It consists of 144 sprucewood columns that mark out and populate Mies's steel-and-glass pavilion.
Giles Coren has savaged restaurants with excoriating reviews, waged war against subeditors who mangle his columns, and now turned his ire against Amazon, accusing it of "cynical corporate rape" and comparing it to a "sicko porn site" in an extraordinary tirade on Twitter.
The first indication of trouble came at 5.30pm, when Terry saw the two columns of smoke in the distance.
In effect, Media Lens is saying, they trim their sails and pull their punches to accommodate their paymasters, their presence in the paper's Comment columns little more than a gesture to pluralism or dissent.
