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Procession vs Column - What's the difference?

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Procession is a synonym of column.


As nouns the difference between procession and column

is that procession is the act of progressing or proceeding while 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 procession

is to take part in a procession.

procession

Noun

(en noun)
  • The act of progressing or proceeding.
  • (Bishop Pearson)
  • * Trench
  • That the procession of their life might be / More equable, majestic, pure, and free.
  • A group of people or things moving along in an orderly, stately, or solemn manner; a train of persons advancing in order; a retinue.
  • a procession''' of mourners; the Lord Mayor's '''procession
  • * Shakespeare
  • the townsmen on procession
  • A number of things happening in sequence (in space or in time).
  • (ecclesiastical, obsolete, in the plural) Litanies which were said in procession and not kneeling.
  • (Shipley)

    Derived terms

    * proceed * process * processional

    See also

    * march-past * fly-past * cavalcade * motorcade * -cade * cortege * parade

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • To take part in a procession
  • (dated) To honour with a procession.
  • (transitive, legal, US, North Carolina and Tennessee) To ascertain, mark, and establish the boundary lines of (lands).
  • * Burrill
  • To procession the lands of such persons as desire it.

    Synonyms

    * process

    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