vertical
being in a position or direction perpendicular to the plane of the horizon; upright; plumb.
of, relating to, or situated at the vertex.
of or relating to the cranial vertex.
Botany.
(of a leaf) having the blade in a perpendicular plane, so that neither of the surfaces can be called upper or lower.
being in the same direction as the axis; lengthwise.
of, constituting, or resulting in vertical combination.
of or relating to a product or service from initial planning to sale.
of, relating to, or noting a stratified society, nation, etc.
something vertical, as a line or plane.
a vertical or upright position.
a vertical structural member in a truss.
Origin of vertical
1synonym study For vertical
Opposites for vertical
Other words from vertical
- ver·ti·cal·i·ty, ver·ti·cal·ness, ver·ti·cal·ism, noun
- ver·ti·cal·ly, adverb
- non·ver·ti·cal, adjective
- non·ver·ti·cal·ly, adverb
- non·ver·ti·cal·ness, noun
- non·ver·ti·cal·i·ty, noun
- sub·ver·ti·cal, adjective
- sub·ver·ti·cal·ly, adverb
- sub·ver·ti·cal·ness, noun
- un·ver·ti·cal, adjective
- un·ver·ti·cal·ly, adverb
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How to use vertical in a sentence
There’s even another subset of businesses, such as San Francisco startup Elroy Air, that are designing new, massive vertical takeoff and landing drones that can lift far heavier cargos and carry them much further.
Cessna makes history by taking off and landing with no one aboard. Here’s how | Jeremy Kahn | August 26, 2020 | FortuneThe sales team was also responsible for selling the advertiser, in this case Cheerios, on the add-ons they could have in the vertical.
‘Not a simple adjacency strategy’: How Group Nine is selling advertisers on bigger and longer editorial deals | Kayleigh Barber | August 21, 2020 | DigidayIt’s also developing an urban vertical farming project purported to be the region’s first.
To better understand these signals, we studied the correlation of 18 important ranking factors across 200 searches in the sports ticketing vertical.
1000 Ranking factors: How Google finds signals through the noise | Manick Bhan | July 22, 2020 | Search Engine WatchWe’ve established a new knowledge vertical — effectively taking out subject matter expertise and packaging it together for insiders.
South China Morning Post CEO Gary Liu on navigating a perilous time for Hong Kong | Pierre Bienaimé | July 14, 2020 | Digiday
Two police assigned to the apartment on a detail were doing a “vertical patrol” up the stairs when the door opened.
They structured themselves not in vertical hierarchies but in networks, each member responding to conditions on the ground.
Abramson is also open, “in theory,” to the idea of interviewing high-profile figures for the new vertical.
How Funny or Die Plans to Cover ISIS, Ebola and Elections | Asawin Suebsaeng | October 10, 2014 | THE DAILY BEASTThere was one very large and easily identifiable piece of debris floating, the vertical stabilizer.
MH370 Debris Is Lost Forever, Can the Plane Be Found Without It? | Clive Irving | September 7, 2014 | THE DAILY BEASTThe hybrid aircraft have a vertical takeoff and landing capability.
U.S. Diplomats and Marines Close Embassy and Flee Libya Fighting | Jamie Dettmer | July 27, 2014 | THE DAILY BEASTThis takes at first the crude device of a couple of vertical lines attached to the head (see Fig. 4).
Children's Ways | James SullyIt is of the vertical kind, and stands on a shallow square tank, which forms the hot well.
Life of Richard Trevithick, Volume II (of 2) | Francis TrevithickHowever, in a month, when everything was about five degrees off the vertical, notice began to be taken.
Old Friends Are the Best | Jack SharkeyHe can not make a record of what he sees as long as the element of horizontal and vertical distance is not clearly in mind.
Outlines of the Earth's History | Nathaniel Southgate ShalerBut the singular fact exists that in the human trunk the valves occur in the horizontal and are absent from the vertical veins.
Man And His Ancestor | Charles Morris
British Dictionary definitions for vertical
/ (ˈvɜːtɪkəl) /
at right angles to the horizon; perpendicular; upright: a vertical wall Compare horizontal (def. 1)
extending in a perpendicular direction
at or in the vertex or zenith; directly overhead
economics of or relating to associated or consecutive, though not identical, stages of industrial activity: vertical integration; vertical amalgamation
of or relating to the vertex
anatomy of, relating to, or situated at the top of the head (vertex)
a vertical plane, position, or line
a vertical post, pillar, or other structural member
Origin of vertical
1Derived forms of vertical
- verticality (ˌvɜːtɪˈkælɪtɪ), noun
- vertically, adverb
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