column inch
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6.2
- noun
- Jargon
:
pulgada de columna
- How, after all, could I possibly respond to such a letter in eleven column inches below the horoscopes and to the left of the comics?
- a column inch article
Because it's not my job to fill column inches with daily updates, but to get the right deal for Britain.
- Because it's not my job to fill column inches with daily updates, but to get the right deal for Britain.
- I think it usurps all the press column inches, all the books.
Examples
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The book's section on women and the Civil War takes approximately eleven column inches of space.
Academic text (1991) -
By the early 1930s, even Art News started to devote a few column inches to contemporary photography.
Academic text (2004) -
No matter how many awards or column inches are written about you or how high the elected office is for me, it's still not enough.
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Because it's not my job to fill column inches with daily updates, but to get the right deal for Britain.
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They've got "X" column inches to fill, right?
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Instead, they see that every time they go negative or sensationalist, they get column inches and TV minutes.
Blog text (17) -
For the period covered in our study, on average, white characters receive 6.19 column inches of space while black characters receive 2.55 inches.
Academic text (1992) -
Articles about African Americans were slightly longer on average (49.65 column inches) than those for European Americans (49.34 column inches) (see Table 5).
Academic text (2009) -
As published in the Humanist magazine, Humanist Manifesto I takes up about twenty-four column inches, while Humanist Manifesto II is about eighty column inches.
Academic text (1998) -
The magazine editor requested an article of at least three column inches to fit the layout.
Surface Forms
Morphology
The meaning is directly compositional: 'column' (a vertical division of text) combined with 'inch' (a unit of length) yields a measure of printed space one inch deep in a column. As a straightforward measurement term used in publishing and paralleled in other languages, a B1 learner who knows both constituents can reasonably infer the MWE's meaning.
Etymology
Column inch comes from newspapers and magazines. Editors and advertisers measured how many inches an ad filled down a single column. One inch of that column was a column inch, so the term came to mean the 'space' used and the unit for charging.