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Column vs Skyscraper - What's the difference?

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As nouns the difference between column and skyscraper

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 skyscraper is a very tall building with a great number of floors.

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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    skyscraper

    English

    (wikipedia skyscraper)

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • A very tall building with a great number of floors.
  • * 1910 , (William Henry Irwin), The House of Mystery ,
    • As the curve of Sandy Hook blotted from sight the last, low glimpse of the skyscrapers which point Manhattan, Blake touched Annette's arm.
  • * 1912 , (w, Elliott O'Donnell), The Sorcery Club ,
    • The solitary attic—if one could thus designate a space of about three square feet—which comprised Hamar's lodging—had the advantage of being situated in the top storey of a skyscraper'—at least a ' skyscraper for that part of the city.
  • * 1917 , Herman Gastrell Seely, A Son of the City: A Story of Boy Life ,
    • Then he noticed, as a prosaic business man will notice suddenly, that a skyscraper which he has passed daily for months is out of line with its neighbor, that the seat behind the new little girl was unoccupied and that she stood alone in the aisle during exercises.
  • * {{quote-magazine, date=2013-06-08, volume=407, issue=8839, page=52, magazine=(The Economist)
    • , title= The new masters and commanders , passage=From the ground, Colombo’s port does not look like much.
  • (archaic) A small sail atop a mast of a ship.
  • (figuratively) Anything very tall or high.
  • * 1920 , (Zane Grey), The Redheaded Outfield and other Baseball Stories ,
    • It was no surprise to see Hanley bat a skyscraper out to left.