horizontal

English

Etymology

Borrowed from French horizontal

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˌhɒɹɪˈzɒntəl/
• IPA^(key): /ˌhɔːɹəˈzɑːntəl/

• Audio (US):

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Adjective

horizontal (comparative more horizontal, superlative most horizontal)

1. perpendicular to the vertical; parallel to the plane of the horizon; level, flat
2. (marketing) relating to horizontal markets
3. (archaic) pertaining to the horizon
   • 1667: As when the Sun new ris'n / Looks through the Horizontal misty Air — John Milton, Paradise Lost, Book 1, ll. 594-5
4. (wine tasting) involving wines of the same vintages but from different wineries

Antonyms

• vertical

Derived terms

• horizontal bar
• horizontal dancing
• horizontal gene transfer
• horizontal hula
• horizontal integration
• horizontalize
• horizontal jogging
• horizontally
• horizontal mambo
• horizontal market
• horizontalness
• horizontal polka
• horizontal run
• horizontal sorting
• nonhorizontal
• subhorizontal

 

Translations

parallel to the plane of the horizon

• Arabic: أُفُقِيّ (ʔufuqiyy)
• Armenian: հորիզոնական (hy) (horizonakan)
• Asturian: horizontal
• Azerbaijani: üfüqi (az)
• Belarusian: гарызанта́льны (haryzantálʹny), пазе́мны (pazjémny)
• Bulgarian: хоризонта́лен (bg) (horizontálen), водора́вен (bg) (vodoráven)
• Catalan: horitzontal (ca)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 水平 (zh) (shuǐpíng), 橫的／横的 (zh), 横的 (zh) (héng de)

• Crimean Tatar: köndelen
• Czech: vodorovný (cs), horizontální (cs)
• Danish: vandret (da)
• Dutch: horizontaal (nl)
• Esperanto: horizontala
• Estonian: horisontaalne
• Faroese: vatnrættur
• Finnish: vaakasuora (fi)
• French: horizontal (fr)
• Galician: horizontal
• Georgian: ჰორიზონტალური (horizonṭaluri)
• German: horizontal (de), waagrecht (de), waagerecht (de)
• Greek: οριζόντιος (el) m (orizóntios)
• Hebrew: אפקי (ofkí)
• Hungarian: vízszintes (hu)
• Icelandic: lárétt
• Irish: cothrománach
• Italian: orizzontale (it)
• Japanese: 水平な (ja) (すいへいな, suihei na), 横の (ja) (よこの, yoko no)
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• Korean: 가로의 (ko) (garoui), 수평의 (ko) (supyeong'ui), 지평의 (ko) (jipyeong'ui)
• Kurdish:

  Central Kurdish: ئاسۆیی (asoyî)

• Latvian: horizontāls
• Lithuanian: horizontalus
• Macedonian: горизонтален (gorizontalen)
• Manx: co-ard
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: horisontal (no), vannrett, vassrett

  Nynorsk: horisontal, vassrett

• Persian: افقی (fa) (ofoqi)
• Polish: poziomy (pl), horyzontalny (pl)
• Portuguese: horizontal (pt)
• Romanian: orizontal (ro)
• Russian: горизонта́льный (ru) (gorizontálʹnyj)
• Scottish Gaelic: fàireil
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: хоризонталан, водораван

  Roman: horizontalan (sh), vodoravan (sh)

• Slovak: horizontálny, vodorovný
• Slovene: horizontalen, vodoraven (sl)
• Spanish: horizontal (es)
• Swedish: vågrät (sv), horisontell (sv)
• Tagalog: higa
• Telugu: సమాంతరము (samāntaramu)
• Turkish: yatay (tr)
• Ukrainian: горизонта́льний (horyzontálʹnyj), позе́мний (pozémnyj), позе́мий (pozémyj)

Noun

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,

Translations

A horizontal component

• Irish: cothromán m
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• Romanian: orizontală (ro) f

Anagrams

• notorhizal

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Asturian

Adjective

horizontal (epicene, plural horizontales)

1. horizontal

   Antonym: vertical

Related terms

• horizonte

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French

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

• ^{(mute h)} IPA^(key): /ɔ.ʁi.zɔ̃.tal/

• Audio:

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• Homophones: horizontale, horizontales

Adjective

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

1. horizontal

   Antonym: vertical

Derived terms

• horizontalement

Related terms

• horizon

Further reading

• “horizontal”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

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Galician

Adjective

horizontal m or f (plural horizontais)

1. horizontal

   Antonym: vertical

Derived terms

• horizontalmente

Related terms

• horizonte

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German

Pronunciation

• Audio:

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• Rhymes: -aːl

Adjective

horizontal (not comparable)

1. horizontal

   Synonyms: waagrecht, waagerecht

   Antonyms: vertikal, senkrecht

Derived terms

• Horizontale

Further reading

• “horizontal” in Duden online

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Portuguese

Adjective

1. horizontal

   Antonym: vertical

Derived terms

• horizontalmente

Related terms

• horizonte

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Spanish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): (Spain) /oɾiθonˈtal/ [o.ɾi.θõn̪ˈt̪al]
• IPA^(key): (Latin America) /oɾisonˈtal/ [o.ɾi.sõn̪ˈt̪al]

Adjective

horizontal m or f (masculine and feminine plural horizontales)

1. horizontal

   Antonym: vertical

Derived terms

• horizontalmente

Related terms

• horizonte