vertical line
Americannoun
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a line that is perpendicular to the base of a surface or plane. Compare horizontal line.
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Mathematics. a line whose points all have the same horizontal coordinate.
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It’s an altered portable television set, stood on its side, with nothing but a bright white vertical line shining on its screen.
From The Wall Street Journal • Oct. 18, 2025
At one point, he seems to become a marionette: the vertical line of the microphone stand dividing him in two, with gyrating arms and legs seemingly independent of each other.
From Seattle Times • Sep. 19, 2023
Michael Moore, a researcher at the Wood Hole Oceanographic Institution in Massachusetts, said the whales’ unexpected arrival in the Gulf of St. Lawrence showed how vertical line fishing everywhere might eventually have to adjust.
From Reuters • Jun. 7, 2023
Those further south, including southern Europe or closer to the equator, are more likely to be able to see all the planets appear in a vertical line up into the sky.
From BBC • Dec. 29, 2022
I would arrange them for display in a vertical line, a square, a diagonal line, any kind of configuration to help me feel like they were a picture of love.
From "The Secret Life of Bees" by Sue Monk Kidd
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