Word Meanings - SEMICOLUMN - Book Publishers vocabulary database

A half column; a column bisected longitudinally, or along its axis.

Related words: (words related to SEMICOLUMN)

• ALONGSIDE
  Along or by the side; side by side with; -- often with of; as, bring the boat alongside; alongside of him; alongside of the tree.
• COLUMN
  A kind of pillar; a cylindrical or polygonal support for a roof, ceiling, statue, etc., somewhat ornamented, and usually composed of base, shaft, and capital. See Order. 2. Anything resembling, in form or position, a column an architecture;
• COLUMNARITY
  The state or quality of being columnar.
• BISECTION
  Division into two parts, esp. two equal parts.
• LONGITUDINALLY
  In the direction of length.
• BISECTRIX
  The line bisecting the angle between the optic axes of a biaxial crystal.
• COLUMNIATION
  The employment or arrangement of columns in a structure. Gwilt.
• BISECT
  To divide into two equal parts. (more info) Etym: 1. To cut or divide into two parts.
• COLUMNED
  Having columns. Troas and Ilion's columned citadel. Tennyson.
• BISECTOR
  One who, or that which, bisects; esp. a straight line which bisects an angle.
• ALONGSHORE
  Along the shore or coast.
• ALONG
  and- (akin to OFris. ond-, OHG. ant-, Ger. ent-, Goth. and-, anda-, 1. By the length; in a line with the length; lengthwise. Some laid along . . . on spokes of wheels are hung. Dryden. 2. In a line, or with a progressive motion; onward; forward.
• COLUMNATED
  Having columns; as, columnated temples.
• ALONGST
  Along.
• ALONGSHOREMAN
  See LONGSHOREMAN
• COLUMNAR
  Formed in columns; having the form of a column or columns; like the shaft of a column. Columnar epithelium , epithelium in which the cells are priismatic in form, and set upright on the surface they cover. -- Columnar structure , a structure
• SEMICOLUMNAR
  Like a semicolumn; flat on one side and round on the other; imperfectly columnar.
• KALONG
  A fruit bat, esp. the Indian edible fruit bat (Pteropus edulis).
• SEMICOLUMN
  A half column; a column bisected longitudinally, or along its axis.
• INTERCOLUMNIATION
  The clear space between two columns, measured at the bottom of their shafts. Gwilt. Note: It is customary to measure the intercolumniation in terms of the diameter of the shaft, taken also at the bottom. Different words, derived from the Greek,
• SUBCOLUMNAR
  Having an imperfect or interrupted columnar structure.
• ALALONGA; ALILONGHI
  The tunny. See Albicore.
• SUPERCOLUMNIATION
  The putting of one order above another; also, an architectural work produced by this method; as, the putting of the Doric order in the ground story, Ionic above it, and Corinthian or Composite above this.
• INTERCOLUMNAR
  Between columns or pillars; as, the intercolumnar fibers of Poupart's ligament; an intercolumnar statue.