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2. Noun. (context: juggling) pattern which involves throwing props in the air alternately. ¹

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Definition of Columns

1. column [n] - See also: column

Lexicographical Neighbors of Columns

Literary usage of Columns

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Vitruvius, the Ten Books on Architecture by Vitruvius Pollio (1914)
"The walls of the cella in front and in the rear should be directly over against the four middle columns. Thus there will be a space, the width of two ..."

2. A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities by William Smith (1891)
"At Bassae the internal columns of the celia were Ionic, and .it Tegea it is probable ... In the earlier temples all the columns seem to have been Doric, ..."

3. Handbook of Building Construction: Data for Architects, Designing and by George Albert Hool, Nathan Clarke Johnson (1920)
"Interior columns, when exposed, are usually surfaced four sides, ... Wooden columns with a ratio of -3 greater than 20 will fail by lateral buckling. ..."

4. Encyclopaedia Britannica, a Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, Literature and edited by Hugh Chisholm (1910)
"The columns are not all equidistant, those nearer the angle being closer ... The columns were not monoliths, like those of the earliest stone temples ..."

5. Journal of Nervous and Mental Disease by Philadelphia Neurological Society, American Neurological Association, Chicago Neurological Society, New York Neurological Association (1886)
"In the medulla oblongata the degeneration of columns of Goll was complete ... Vierordt looks upon the disease of the columns of Goll as a primary ..."

6. Proceedings of the ... Annual Convention by Mid-West Cement Users' Association (1917)
"The columns were cast in New York, NY, on November 19, 22 and 26,1913, ... The following is a schedule of the columns included in the series. ..."

7. Journal of Nervous and Mental Disease by American Neurological Association, Philadelphia Neurological Society, Chicago Neurological Society, New York Neurological Association, Boston Society of Psychiatry and Neurology (1891)
"OF GOLL'S columns AND CHRONIC SPINAL LEPTOMENINGITIS. ... The complete destruction of Goll's columns, except a few fibres posteriorly in the cervical region ..."

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