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horizontally

/hawr-uh-zon-tl, hor-/US // ˌhɔr əˈzɒn tl, ˌhɒr- //UK // (ˌhɒrɪˈzɒntəl) //

横向,水平方向,垂直方向,垂直

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Definitions

adj.形容词 adjective
  1. 1
    • : at right angles to the vertical; parallel to level ground.
    • : flat or level: a horizontal position.
    • : being in a prone or supine position; recumbent: His bad back has kept him horizontal for a week.
    • : near, on, or parallel to the horizon.
    • : of or relating to the horizon.
    • : measured or contained in a plane parallel to the horizon: a horizontal distance.
    • : extending across, from the left to the right of the viewer.
    • : of or relating to a position or individual of similar status: He received a horizontal promotion to a different department, retaining his old salary and title.
    • : Economics. of or relating to companies, affiliates, divisions, etc., that perform the same or similar functions or produce the same or similar products: Through horizontal mergers the company monopolized its field.
n.名词 noun
  1. 1
    • : anything horizontal, as a plane, direction, or object.

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Examples

  • The structure of these horizontal streaks cannot be formed by the electron showers responsible for auroras, researchers report in the December AGU Advances.

  • We don’t really have a role within the marketing organization whose job it is to build a horizontal buyer’s journey.

  • As for the games side, it’s similar to the PS4 in that it’s a horizontal line that you click through, and when a game is highlighted it “takes over” the screen with a background, the latest news, achievements and so on.

  • A rotating sprinkler also fires a horizontal spray, usually out of two or three nozzles that spin in a circle.

  • It’s horizontal in nature, it favors interconnectedness, and within it, one gains their humanity, their being, through others gaining their humanity, their being—you are, therefore I am.

  • Auto factories tend to sprawl horizontally over huge lots, and have flat roofs.

  • Faulkner, Whitman, and Dickinson did not labor in vain; their books live on, horizontally, stacked like bricks in a display case.

  • Johns took the original source and mirrored it horizontally, creating a large missing void in the center of the work.

  • It even threatens such veteran horizontally integrated favorites as Scrabble, solitaire, and the crossword puzzle.

  • Thigh-high leather boots… Gucci ostrich skin leather jackets… Horizontally striped posing briefs… More leather jackets...

  • The Mats de Beaupré are upon the same principle; they are soaped poles, laid horizontally, but very high from the ground.

  • On the outside of these were nailed horizontally boards, 10 or 12 inches wide, overlapping each other.

  • This powder-flask was directed horizontally to a large stone, which Gilliatt made the hearth of the forge.

  • The stretch of the elastic is sufficient to enlarge the parts equally, as well vertically as horizontally.

  • It had curved on reaching the zenith, whence it spread horizontally over the rest of the heavens.