The difference between Column and Sile
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 sile means a column.
Sile is also verb with the meaning: to strain, as milk.
check bellow for the other definitions of Column and Sile
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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.
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Column as a noun:
A vertical line of entries in a table, usually read from top to bottom.
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Column as a noun:
A body of troops or army vehicles, usually strung out along a road.
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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."
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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."
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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."
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Column as a noun:
Something having similar vertical form or structure to the things mentioned above, such as a spinal column.
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Column as a noun (botany):
The gynostemium
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Column as a noun:
(chemistry) An object used to separate the different components of a liquid or to purify chemical compounds.
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Sile as a noun (now, _, chiefly, _, dialectal):
A column; pillar.
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Sile as a noun (now, _, chiefly, _, dialectal):
A beam; rafter; one of the principal rafters of a building.
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Sile as a noun (now, _, chiefly, _, dialectal):
The foot or lower part of a couple or rafter; base.
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Sile as a noun (now, _, chiefly, _, dialectal):
A roof rafter or couple, usually one of a pair.
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Sile as a verb (transitive, UK, _, dialectal):
To strain, as milk; pass through a strainer or anything similar; filter.
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Sile as a verb (intransitive, UK, _, dialectal):
To flow down; drip; drop; fall; sink.
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Sile as a verb (intransitive, UK, _, dialectal):
To settle down; calm or compose oneself.
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Sile as a verb (intransitive, UK, _, dialectal):
To go; pass.
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Sile as a verb (intransitive, UK, _, dialectal):
To boil gently; simmer.
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Sile as a verb (intransitive, UK, _, dialectal, Northern England):
To pour with rain.
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Sile as a noun:
A sieve.
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Sile as a noun:
A strainer or colander for liquids
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Sile as a noun:
That which is sifted or strained, hence, settlings; sediment; filth.
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Sile as a noun:
A young herring.