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Column vs Colonette - What's the difference?

column | colonette |

In architecture terms the difference between column and colonette

is that 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 while colonette is a narrow decorative column supporting a beam or lintel.

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

    colonette

    English

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • (architecture) A narrow decorative column supporting a beam or lintel.
  • *{{quote-news, year=2007, date=November 6, author=David W. Dunlap, title=A Blossoming Cathedral Tower Sheds Its Scaffolding, work=New York Times citation
  • , passage=What is now revealed, in a limestone several shades blonder than the rest of the cathedral, are crisp buttresses, gables, colonettes , gargoyles, pinnacles, crockets and ornaments known as trefoils (three cusps), quatrefoils (four cusps) and cinquefoils (five cusps). }}