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Column vs Cantoned - What's the difference?

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In architecture|lang=en terms the difference between column and cantoned

is that column is (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 while cantoned is (architecture) having the angles marked by, or decorated with, projecting mouldings or small columns.

As a noun column

is (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.

As a verb cantoned is

(canton).

As an adjective cantoned is

(heraldry) having a charge in each of the four corners; said of a cross on a shield, and also of the shield itself.

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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    cantoned

    English

    Verb

    (head)
  • (canton)

    • Adjective

    (-)
  • (heraldry) Having a charge in each of the four corners; said of a cross on a shield, and also of the shield itself.
  • (architecture) Having the angles marked by, or decorated with, projecting mouldings or small columns.
    • a cantoned pier or pilaster