Cavalcade vs Column - What's the difference?

In by extension terms the difference between cavalcade and column

is that cavalcade is a series, a chain (e.g. of events) while column is 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.

As nouns the difference between cavalcade and column

is that cavalcade is a company of riders while column is a solid upright structure designed usually to support a larger structure above it, such as a roof or horizontal beam, but sometimes for decoration.

As a verb cavalcade

is to move as part of a series or group, such as marchers in a parade or snow in an avalanche, especially in large numbers or in a chaotic or dangerous fashion.

cavalcade

English

("cavalcade" on Wikipedia)

Noun

(en noun)

A company of riders.

A parade.

* 1929 , , Chapter IX, Section iii

In the second row of the cavalcade were Francie, Fanny's god-daughter, now thirteen years old and already elegant in long frilled pantalettes, tartan skirts, and a leghorn hat with streamers, …

A trail ride, usually more than one day long.

* {{quote-book, year=1913, author=

, title=Lord Stranleigh Abroad , chapter=5 citation , passage=Stranleigh found no difficulty in getting a cavalcade together at Bleacher’s station, an amazingly long distance west of New York.}}

(by extension) A series, a chain (e.g. of events).

As soon as I visited this website, a cavalcade of dialog boxes started to appear on my screen; that's when I realized my computer was infected with a virus.

Synonyms

* (company of riders) company * (parade) parade, procession * (series) chain, series

Verb

(cavalcad)

To move as part of a series or group, such as marchers in a parade or snow in an avalanche, especially in large numbers or in a chaotic or dangerous fashion

* 1725 , John Windhus, “A Journey to Mequinez”, in John Pinkerton, The Best and Most Interesting Voyages and Travels , Volume 15, Longman et al. (1814), page 478:

Great numbers of horse were still cavalcading , but

* 1866 , (Elizabeth Charles), The Draytons and the Davenants , M. W. Dodd, pages 348–9:

although for the most part he believed the devil was too good a general to let his soldiers waste their time in cavalcading about on broom-sticks.

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column

English

(wikipedia column)

Noun

(en noun)

(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.

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

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

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

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

(label) 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.

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

*{{quote-book, year=1892, author=(James Yoxall)

, chapter=5, title= The Lonely Pyramid , passage=The desert storm was riding in its strength; the travellers lay beneath the mastery of the fell simoom. Whirling wreaths and columns of burning wind, rushed around and over them.}}

(botany) The gynostemium

Synonyms

* (upright structure) post, pillar, sile

Antonyms

* (line of table entries) row (which is horizontal)

Hypernyms

* (upright structure) beam

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