column

Related to column: column chromatography, beam

a little from column A, a little from column B

Having been formed from two distinct factors, elements, or reasons. She asked me if I drew more from real life or from my imagination when writing; in truth, it's a little from column A and a little from column B.
See also: column, little

dodge the column

To avoid doing some job or task. Primarily heard in UK. Oh, she's not really sick—she's just trying to dodge the column and leave me with all her work!
See also: column, dodge

fifth column

A clandestine group of people who work subversively within a group, organization, or country in order to betray it to an allied outside force. In the US during the Cold War, there was constant fear and suspicion of people supposedly working in a fifth column to spread the influence of communism from within.
See also: column, fifth
Farlex Dictionary of Idioms.

fifth column

A secret subversive group that works against a country or organization from the inside, as in The government feared that there was a fifth column working to oppose its policies during the crisis . This term was invented by General Emilio Mola during the Spanish Civil War in a radio broadcast on October 16, 1936, in which he said that he had una quinta columna ("a fifth column") of sympathizers for General Franco among the Republicans holding the city of Madrid, and it would join his four columns of troops when they attacked. The term was popularized by Ernest Hemingway and later extended to any traitorous insiders.
See also: column, fifth
The American Heritage® Dictionary of Idioms by Christine Ammer.

dodge the column

shirk your duty; avoid work. British informal
Column is a military term which refers to the usual formation of troops for marching.
See also: column, dodge

fifth column

an organized group of people sympathizing with and working for the enemy within a country at war or otherwise under attack.
Fifth column is a translation of the Spanish phrase quinta columna : during the Spanish Civil War, an extra body of supporters was claimed by General Mola as being within Madrid when he besieged the city with four columns of Nationalist forces in 1936 .
See also: column, fifth
Farlex Partner Idioms Dictionary
See also:
  • a little from column A, a little from column B
  • by no stretch
  • beyond imagination
  • be as/like oil and water
  • be like oil and water
  • tell (someone or something) from (someone or something else)
  • tell from
  • tell from else
  • tell from else Go to tell from
  • which is which
References in periodicals archive
A common feature of these solvents is their strong tendency to foam, which affects the flow of the gas through the separation column. The high open surface area enables separation with less pressure drop and thereby reduces the hydraulic effect of foaming.
The company upgraded the random packings to the NeXRing model in the two lower sections of the three-part column, where the fouling occurred.
Sulzer welcomes new random packing design
The research aims to extend the abovementioned studies to gain a comprehensive understanding of steel column behaviour under dynamic blast.
C3D8R element provided by ABAQUS [12] was used to model the steel column. Based on the mesh sensitivity analysis shown in Figure 2, the element size of the columns was 20 mm along 0.5 m of the column midspan and the column ends to ascertain an accurate simulation of the local failure at these locations due to the stress concentration [13].
Behaviour and Failure of Steel Columns Subjected to Blast Loads: Numerical Study and Analytical Approach
In 2014, the potential distribution for column 1, column 2, column 3, and column 4 was the same, i.e., ranging between (-100) and (-350) mV.
Furthermore, by conducting a visual inspection, it was found that there was a difference on the condition between the column directly facing the sea and the column facing the opposite direction of the sea as seen in Figure 15.
Corrosion of Reinforced Concrete Structures Submerged by the 2004 Tsunami in West Aceh, Indonesia
The column will be pushed to the target drift twice to assure that the hysteretic loop is stable before increasing drift to subsequent cycle.
The crack patterns at 1.5% drift of all column specimens are shown in Figure 5.
Gravity Load Collapse Behavior of Nonengineered Reinforced Concrete Columns
This will move the actual headers to the column headings area, as shown in the screenshot "QuickBooks GL Report."
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Figure 9 shows the finite element and mesh model of the Column without in filled concrete .Figure 10 shows the finite element and mesh model of the Column without in filled Concrete.
Analytical study on behaviour of concrete filled steel tubular columns
A type of hybrid frame which consists of Steel Reinforced Concrete (SRC) column and structural steel beam is one of the widely used hybrid structures.
Study on Progressive Collapse Behavior of SRC Column-Steel Beam Hybrid Frame Based on Pushdown Analysis
Say that your data has Account Number (such as A1001, A1002, etc.) in column A, Description in column B, and Amount in column C.
Moving subtotals to a new column
Monolithic columns provide excellent separations at a fraction of the time it takes in a standard particle-based column.
Fast, efficient, robust separations using monolithic columns: monolithic silica columns provide fast separations for a variety of applications, including food, pharmaceutical and proteins and peptides
Depending on the samples in the drug development phase, different types of columns are required for the separation.
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