The difference between Column and Row

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 row means a line of objects, often regularly spaced, such as seats in a theatre, vegetable plants in a garden etc.

Row is also verb with the meaning: to propel (a boat or other craft) over water using oars.

check bellow for the other definitions of Column and Row

  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. Row as a noun:

    A line of objects, often regularly spaced, such as seats in a theatre, vegetable plants in a garden etc.

  2. Row as a noun:

    A line of entries in a table, etc., going from left to right, as opposed to a column going from top to bottom.

  1. Row as a noun (weightlifting):

    An exercise performed with a pulling motion of the arms towards the back.

  1. Row as a verb (transitive, or, intransitive, nautical):

    To propel (a boat or other craft) over water using oars.

  2. Row as a verb (transitive):

    To transport in a boat propelled with oars.

    Examples:

    "to row the captain ashore in his barge"

  3. Row as a verb (intransitive):

    To be moved by oars.

    Examples:

    "The boat rows easily."

  1. Row as a noun:

    A noisy argument.

  2. Row as a noun:

    A continual loud noise.

    Examples:

    "Who's making that row?"

  1. Row as a verb (intransitive):

    to argue noisily

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