horizontal

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English

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Etymology

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Borrowed from Middle French horizontal.

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horizontal (comparative more horizontal, superlative most horizontal)

  1. Perpendicular to the vertical; parallel to the plane of the horizon; level, flat.
    horizontal lines
  2. (marketing) Relating to horizontal markets
  3. (archaic) Pertaining to the horizon.
    • 1667, John Milton, “Book I”, in Paradise Lost. [], London: [] [Samuel Simmons], and are to be sold by Peter Parker []; [a]nd by Robert Boulter []; [a]nd Matthias Walker, [], →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
  4. (wine) Involving wines of the same vintages but from different wineries.
  5. (music, of an interval) Having the two notes sound successively.
    Synonyms: linear, melodic
    Antonym: vertical
  6. (sex, euphemistic) Relating to sexual intercourse.
    horizontal tango
    • 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.
  7. (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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Noun

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horizontal (plural horizontals)

  1. A horizontal component of a structure.
  2. (geology) Horizon.
  3. A Tasmanian shrub or small tree whose main trunk tends to lean over and grow horizontally, Anodopetalum biglandulosum

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Albanian

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Etymology

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Probably from English horizontal; the -al adjectival suffix is neither native to Albanian, nor was it borrowed from Latin earlier on.

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horizontal (feminine horizontale)

  1. horizontal
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Asturian

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horizontal (epicene, plural horizontales)

  1. horizontal
    Antonym: vertical
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French

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Etymology

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Derived from Latin horizōn (horizon) + -ālis (suffix forming adjectives from nouns).

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horizontal (feminine horizontale, masculine plural horizontaux, feminine plural horizontales)

  1. horizontal
    Antonym: vertical

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Galician

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horizontal m or f (plural horizontais)

  1. horizontal
    Antonym: vertical

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German

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horizontal (strong nominative masculine singular horizontaler, not comparable)

  1. horizontal
    Synonyms: waagrecht, waagerecht
    Antonyms: vertikal, senkrecht

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Malay

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Etymology

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From English horizontal, from Middle French horizontal.

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  • IPA(key): [hɔ.ri.zɔn.təl]
  • Rhymes: -təl, -əl
  • Hyphenation: ho‧ri‧zon‧tal

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horizontal (Jawi spelling هوريزونتل)

  1. Perpendicular to the vertical; horizontal.
    Synonyms: melintang, mendatar, mengufuk
    Antonyms: mencancang, menegak, vertikal

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horizontal” in Pusat Rujukan Persuratan Melayu | Malay Literary Reference Centre, Kuala Lumpur: Dewan Bahasa dan Pustaka, 2017.

Portuguese

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  • (Portugal) IPA(key): /ɔ.ɾi.zõˈtal/ [ɔ.ɾi.zõˈtaɫ]
    • (Southern Portugal) IPA(key): /ɔ.ɾi.zõˈta.li/

  • Rhymes: (Portugal) -al, (Brazil) -aw
  • Hyphenation: ho‧ri‧zon‧tal

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horizontal m or f (plural horizontais, not comparable)

  1. horizontal
    Antonym: vertical

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Spanish

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  • IPA(key): (Spain) /oɾiθonˈtal/ [o.ɾi.θõn̪ˈt̪al]
  • IPA(key): (Latin America, Philippines) /oɾisonˈtal/ [o.ɾi.sõn̪ˈt̪al]
  • Rhymes: -al
  • Syllabification: ho‧ri‧zon‧tal

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horizontal m or f (masculine and feminine plural horizontales)

  1. horizontal
    Antonym: vertical
  2. landscape (a mode of printing where the horizontal sides are longer than the vertical sides; in smartphones)
    Synonym: apaisado

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