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  • noun Plural form of column.
  • noun juggling pattern which involves throwing props in the air alternately.

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Examples

  • General Thurreau surrounded Vendée with sixteen entrenched camps; twelve moveable columns, called the _infernal columns_, overran the country in every direction, sword and fire in hand, scoured the woods, dispersed the assemblies, and diffused terror throughout this unhappy country.

    History of the French Revolution from 1789 to 1814 Francois-Auguste Mignet 1840

  • The first, portfolio_edit_columns ($columns), simply defines the columns.

    Carsonified » Blog 2010

  • When these apertures are shut, and the whole filled witli water, it remains in equilibria; but if the apertures are opened, the columns having these apertures for their bases, and the depth of the wa - ter for their altitudes, will cease to press on the sides; and therefore the whole pressure on the sides where tliere are no perforations, will be greater tlian on the sides where the perforations are, by the sum of these two columns*

    Outlines of Natural Philosophy: Being Heads of Lectures Delivered in the University of Edinburgh 1812

  • Add to that a few blogs and a few stories and columns from the mainstream media and, bingo, you can have a successful site — especially if you have a marketing dynamo like Arianna Huffington.

    When No News Is Bad News 2009

  • There are two lead choirs: bunches of monks gathered in columns around the lectern of each transept, with the choirmaster who intones the strophe and the choir that catches the tune and makes it blossom in melodies and chords.

    Ecumenism 2009

  • You can make as many lists/groups as you like and they are displayed very nicely in columns similar to Tweetdeck or Seesmic Desktop.

    Twitter obsession 2009

  • Add to that a few blogs and a few stories and columns from the mainstream media and, bingo, you can have a successful site — especially if you have a marketing dynamo like Arianna Huffington.

    When No News Is Bad News 2009

  • The new 32nd Street Walk with the color-changing LED columns is equally silly.

    Station Square and the Post Office « DESIGNPHILADELPHIA 2009

  • Man, man, I'm tellin 'you that I clipped the fight columns from the newspapers to keep it' way from him — him a-thinkin 'I was wantin' them for me scrap book.

    Chapter II 2010

  • There are two lead choirs: bunches of monks gathered in columns around the lectern of each transept, with the choirmaster who intones the strophe and the choir that catches the tune and makes it blossom in melodies and chords.

    Pentecost in the East 2009

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