horizontal
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Etymology edit
Borrowed from Middle French horizontal.
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horizontal (comparative more horizontal, superlative most horizontal)
- Perpendicular to the vertical; parallel to the plane of the horizon; level, flat.
- horizontal lines
- (marketing) Relating to horizontal markets
- (archaic) Pertaining to the horizon.
- 1667, John Milton, “Book I”, in Paradise Lost. […], London: […] [Samuel Simmons], […], →OCLC; republished as Paradise Lost in Ten Books: […], London: Basil Montagu Pickering […], 1873, →OCLC, lines 594-595:
- As when the Sun new ris'n / Looks through the Horizontal misty Air
- (wine) Involving wines of the same vintages but from different wineries.
- (music, of an interval) Having the two notes sound successively.
- (sex, euphemistic) Relating to sexual intercourse.
- 2020 February 2, Mariella Frostrup, “One is a great guy; the other is good in bed. So who do I choose?”, in The Guardian[1]:
- Comparing a man who inspires you intellectually and makes you laugh with a guy who fulfils all your horizontal desires means you’re not comparing like with like.
- (biology) Being or relating to the transmission of organisms between biotic and/or abiotic members of an ecosystem that are not in a parent-progeny relationship.
- Infectious agents may spread by horizontal transmission.
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- horizontal bar
- horizontal dancing
- horizontal divestiture
- horizontal escalation
- horizontal gene transfer
- horizontal hostility
- horizontal hula
- horizontal integration
- horizontalize
- horizontal jogging
- horizontally
- horizontal machining center
- horizontal mambo
- horizontal market
- horizontalness
- horizontal plane
- horizontal polka
- horizontal proliferation
- horizontal refreshments
- horizontal run
- horizontal sorting
- horizontal stabiliser
- horizontal stabilizer
- horizontal standard
- horizontal tango
- nonhorizontal
- subhorizontal
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Noun edit
horizontal (plural horizontals)
- A horizontal component of a structure.
- (geology) Horizon.
- A Tasmanian shrub or small tree whose main trunk tends to lean over and grow horizontally, Anodopetalum biglandulosum
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Albanian edit
Etymology edit
Probably from English horizontal; the -al adjectival suffix is neither native to Albanian, nor was it borrowed from Latin earlier on.
Adjective edit
horizontal (feminine horizontale)
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Asturian edit
Adjective edit
horizontal (epicene, plural horizontales)
- horizontal
- Antonym: vertical
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French edit
Alternative forms edit
Etymology edit
Derived from Latin horizōn (“horizon”) + -ālis (suffix forming adjectives from nouns).
Pronunciation edit
- (mute h) IPA(key): /ɔ.ʁi.zɔ̃.tal/
Audio (file) - Homophones: horisontal, horisontale, horisontales, horizontale, horizontales
Adjective edit
horizontal (feminine horizontale, masculine plural horizontaux, feminine plural horizontales)
- horizontal
- Antonym: vertical
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Further reading edit
- “horizontal”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
Galician edit
Adjective edit
horizontal m or f (plural horizontais)
- horizontal
- Antonym: vertical
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German edit
Pronunciation edit
Adjective edit
horizontal (strong nominative masculine singular horizontaler, not comparable)
- horizontal
- Synonyms: waagrecht, waagerecht
- Antonyms: vertikal, senkrecht
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Further reading edit
- “horizontal” in Duden online
- “horizontal” in Digitales Wörterbuch der deutschen Sprache
Portuguese edit
Pronunciation edit
Adjective edit
horizontal m or f (plural horizontais, not comparable)
- horizontal
- Antonym: vertical
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Spanish edit
Pronunciation edit
- IPA(key): (Spain) /oɾiθonˈtal/ [o.ɾi.θõn̪ˈt̪al]
- IPA(key): (Latin America) /oɾisonˈtal/ [o.ɾi.sõn̪ˈt̪al]
- Rhymes: -al
- Syllabification: ho‧ri‧zon‧tal
Adjective edit
horizontal m or f (masculine and feminine plural horizontales)
- horizontal
- Antonym: vertical
- landscape (a mode of printing where the horizontal sides are longer than the vertical sides; in smartphones)
- Antonym: vertical
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Further reading edit
- “horizontal”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014