| Main Entry: | |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | line, procession |
| Synonyms: | cavalcade, company, file, list, platoon, queue, rank, row, string, train |
| Main Entry: | army |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | military force, usually for land |
| Synonyms: | armed force, artillery, battalion, battery, brigade, cavalry, column, command, company, corps, detail, division, flight, formation, infantry, legion, outfit, patrol unit, platoon, regiment, soldiers, soldiery, squad, troops, wing |
| Main Entry: | article |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | piece of writing |
| Synonyms: | beat*, blurb, column, commentary, composition, discourse, editorial, essay, exposition, feature, item, paper, piece, scoop*, spread, story, theme, think piece, treatise, write-up |
| Main Entry: | beam |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | length of material used as support |
| Synonyms: | axle, bail, balk, bolster, boom, brace, cantilever, column, crossbar, crosspiece, girder, jamb, joist, lath, lintel, pile, piling, pillar, plank, pole, post, prop, rafter, reach, scaffolding, scantling, shaft, sill, spar, stanchion, stay, stringer, strip, strut, stud, timber, transverse, trestle, two-by-four |
| Notes: | ray is distinguished from beam in that it describes a smaller quantity of light (beam being a collection of parallel rays) |
| Main Entry: | beam |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | ray of light |
| Synonyms: | bar, beacon, chink, column, dartle, emission, finger, flicker, glare, gleam, glimmer, glint, glitter, glow, laser, radiation, ray, shaft, shimmer, shoot, sparkle, streak, stream, twinkle |
| Main Entry: | buttress |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | brace, support |
| Synonyms: | abutment, column, mainstay, pier, prop, reinforcement, shore, stanchion, stay, strut, underpinning |
| Main Entry: | feature |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | special article in publication |
| Synonyms: | column, comment, item, piece, report, story |
| Main Entry: | file |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | line, queue |
| Synonyms: | column, echelon, list, parade, rank, row, string, tier, troop |
| Main Entry: | item |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | part, article |
| Synonyms: | account, aspect, bit, blurb, bulletin, column, component, consideration, conversation piece, detail, dispatch, element, entry, feature, incidental, information, matter, minor point, minutia, news, note, notice, novelty, paragraph, particular, piece, point, report, scoop*, scrap, specific, story, thing, write-up |