horizontal
English
    
    Etymology
    
Borrowed from Middle French horizontal.
Pronunciation
    
- (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /ˌhɒɹɪˈzɒntəl/
 - (US) IPA(key): /ˌhɔːɹəˈzɑːntəl/
 Audio (US) (file) 
Adjective
    
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
 
 
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 - (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:
- 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.
 
 
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- horizontal bar
 - horizontal dancing
 - horizontal divestiture
 - horizontal escalation
 - horizontal gene transfer
 - horizontal hostility
 - horizontal hula
 - horizontal integration
 - horizontal jogging
 - horizontal mambo
 - horizontal market
 - horizontal plane
 - horizontal polka
 - horizontal proliferation
 - horizontal refreshments
 - horizontal run
 - horizontal sorting
 - horizontal standard
 - horizontalize
 - horizontally
 - horizontalness
 - nonhorizontal
 - subhorizontal
 
Translations
    
parallel to the plane of the horizon
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Noun
    
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
 
Translations
    
A horizontal component
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Albanian
    
    Etymology
    
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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French
    
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Pronunciation
    
- (mute h) IPA(key): /ɔ.ʁi.zɔ̃.tal/
 Audio (file) - Homophones: horisontal, horisontale, horisontales, horizontale, horizontales
 
Adjective
    
horizontal (feminine horizontale, masculine plural horizontaux, feminine plural horizontales)
- horizontal
- Antonym: vertical
 
 
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Further reading
    
- “horizontal”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
 
Galician
    
    
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German
    
    Pronunciation
    
Audio (file) Audio (file) - Rhymes: -aːl
 
Adjective
    
horizontal (strong nominative masculine singular horizontaler, not comparable)
- horizontal
- Synonyms: waagrecht, waagerecht
 - Antonyms: vertikal, senkrecht
 
 
Declension
    
Positive forms of horizontal (uncomparable)
Derived terms
    
- Horizontale
 
Further reading
    
- “horizontal” in Duden online
 - “horizontal” in Digitales Wörterbuch der deutschen Sprache
 
Portuguese
    
    Pronunciation
    
- (Brazil) IPA(key): /o.ɾi.zõˈtaw/ [o.ɾi.zõˈtaʊ̯]
 
- (Portugal) IPA(key): /ɔ.ɾi.zõˈtal/ [ɔ.ɾi.zõˈtaɫ]
 
- Rhymes: (Portugal) -al, (Brazil) -aw
 - Hyphenation: ho‧ri‧zon‧tal
 
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Spanish
    
    Pronunciation
    
- IPA(key): (Spain) /oɾiθonˈtal/ [o.ɾi.θõn̪ˈt̪al]
 - IPA(key): (Latin America) /oɾisonˈtal/ [o.ɾi.sõn̪ˈt̪al]
 - Rhymes: -al
 - Syllabification: ho‧ri‧zon‧tal
 
Adjective
    
horizontal (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
    
- “horizontal”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014
 
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