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

  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. Sile as a noun (now, _, chiefly, _, dialectal):

    A column; pillar.

  2. Sile as a noun (now, _, chiefly, _, dialectal):

    A beam; rafter; one of the principal rafters of a building.

  3. Sile as a noun (now, _, chiefly, _, dialectal):

    The foot or lower part of a couple or rafter; base.

  4. Sile as a noun (now, _, chiefly, _, dialectal):

    A roof rafter or couple, usually one of a pair.

  1. Sile as a verb (transitive, UK, _, dialectal):

    To strain, as milk; pass through a strainer or anything similar; filter.

  2. Sile as a verb (intransitive, UK, _, dialectal):

    To flow down; drip; drop; fall; sink.

  3. Sile as a verb (intransitive, UK, _, dialectal):

    To settle down; calm or compose oneself.

  4. Sile as a verb (intransitive, UK, _, dialectal):

    To go; pass.

  5. Sile as a verb (intransitive, UK, _, dialectal):

    To boil gently; simmer.

  6. Sile as a verb (intransitive, UK, _, dialectal, Northern England):

    To pour with rain.

  1. Sile as a noun:

    A sieve.

  2. Sile as a noun:

    A strainer or colander for liquids

  3. Sile as a noun:

    That which is sifted or strained, hence, settlings; sediment; filth.

  1. Sile as a noun:

    A young herring.

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