The difference between Column and Mast

When used as nouns, column means a solid upright structure designed usually to support a larger structure above it, such as a roof or horizontal beam, but sometimes for decoration, whereas mast means a tall, slim post or tower, usually tapering upward, used to support, for example, the sails on a ship, flags, floodlights, or communications equipment such as an aerial, usually supported by guy-wires.

Mast is also verb with the meaning: to supply and fit a mast to a ship.

check bellow for the other definitions of Column and Mast

  1. Column as a 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.

  2. Column as a noun:

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

  3. Column as a noun:

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

  4. Column as a noun:

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

    Examples:

    "It was too hard to read the text across the whole page, so I split it into two columns."

  5. Column as a noun:

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

    Examples:

    "Each column inch costs $300 a week; this ad is four columns by three inches, so will run $3600 a week."

  6. Column as a noun (by extension):

    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.

    Examples:

    "His initial foray into print media was as the author of a weekly column in his elementary-school newspaper."

  7. Column as a noun:

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

  8. Column as a noun (botany):

    The gynostemium

  9. Column as a noun:

    (chemistry) An object used to separate the different components of a liquid or to purify chemical compounds.

  1. Mast as a noun:

    A tall, slim post or tower, usually tapering upward, used to support, for example, the sails on a ship, flags, floodlights, or communications equipment such as an aerial, usually supported by guy-wires.

  2. Mast as a noun (naval):

    A non-judicial punishment ("NJP") disciplinary hearing under which a commanding officer studies and disposes of cases involving those under his command.

  1. Mast as a verb:

    To supply and fit a mast to a ship

  1. Mast as a noun:

    The fruit of forest-trees (beech, oak, chestnut, pecan, etc.), especially if having fallen from the tree, used as fodder for pigs and other animals.

  1. Mast as a verb (of swine and other animals):

    To feed on forest seed or fruit.

  2. Mast as a verb (agriculture, forestry, ecology, of a population of plants):

    To vary fruit and seed production in multi-year cycles.

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