Column and Stand

Column

Column noun - A series of persons or things arranged one behind another.

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Stand and column are semantically related. In some cases you can use "Stand" instead a noun "Column".

Nearby Words: columnist, columnar, columned

Stand noun - A level usually raised surface.

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Column and stand are semantically related. Sometimes you can use "Column" instead a noun "Stand".

Nearby Words: standing, stance, standee

long	long column	long stand
particular	particular column	particular stand
popular	popular column	popular stand
small	small column	small stand
Other adjectives: entire, hard, massive, huge, new, final, last, giant, vertical.

Glenn Erickson, author of the DVD Savant film column, once shared an anecdote that while attending UCLA, he started receiving mail praising his stand on gay rights.

Source: Mistaken for Gay
The old seer keeps telling a fisher girl how the Empress is only out to scatter the bones of her soldiers, while the two of them stand by the roadside and watch a column ride by.

Source: Literature / Gardens of the Moon
Chat show host Robert Kilroy-Silk was fired by the BBC after penning a column in a tabloid newspaper which contained — to be as objective as possible here — willfully abusive remarks about Arabic people in general, whereupon he decided to stand for Parliament instead.

Source: Role Ending Misdemeanor

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