horizontal

Borrowed from Middle French horizontal.

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /ˌhɒɹɪˈzɒntəl/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /ˌhoɹəˈzɑntəl/

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• (Indic) IPA^(key): /hərɪˈzɔɳʈəl/

horizontal (comparative more horizontal, superlative most horizontal)

1. Perpendicular to the vertical; parallel to the plane of the horizon; level, flat.

   horizontal lines

   • 1976, Apollo: A Journal of the Arts:

     […] a pair of pauldrons with the light horizontal bar which in later years developed into the high neckguard of the sixteenth century; numbers of gauntlets, visors of helmets, and other pieces, the handling of which is a sheer joy  […]

2. (marketing) Relating to horizontal markets
3. (archaic) Pertaining to the horizon.
   • 1667, John Milton, “Book I”, in Paradise Lost. […], London: […] [Samuel Simmons], and are to be sold by Peter Parker […]; [a]nd by Robert Boulter […]; [a]nd Matthias Walker, […], →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

4. (wine) Involving wines of the same vintages but from different wineries.
5. (music, of an interval) Having the two notes sound successively.

   Synonyms: linear, melodic

   Antonym: vertical

6. (sex, euphemistic) Relating to sexual intercourse.

   horizontal tango

   • 2020 February 2, Mariella Frostrup, “One is a great guy; the other is good in bed. So who do I choose?”, in The Guardian‎^[1]:

     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.

7. (biology) Being or relating to the transmission of organisms between biotic and/or abiotic members of an ecosystem that are not in a parent-progeny relationship.

   Infectious agents may spread by horizontal transmission.

• vertical

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, Anodopetalum biglandulosum

• notorhizal

Probably from English horizontal; the -al adjectival suffix is neither native to Albanian, nor was it borrowed from Latin earlier on.

horizontal (feminine horizontale)

• horizont

horizontal (epicene, plural horizontales)

1. horizontal

   Antonym: vertical

• horizonte

• horisontal

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

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

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• Homophones: horisontal, horisontale, horisontales, horizontale, horizontales

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

1. horizontal

   Antonym: vertical

• horizontalement

• horizon

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

horizontal m or f (plural horizontais)

1. horizontal

   Antonym: vertical

• horizontalmente

• horizonte

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• Rhymes: -aːl

horizontal (strong nominative masculine singular horizontaler, not comparable)

1. horizontal

   Synonyms: waagrecht, waagerecht

   Antonyms: vertikal, senkrecht

• Horizontale

• “horizontal” in Duden online
• “horizontal” in Digitales Wörterbuch der deutschen Sprache

Borrowed from Dutch horizontaal (“horizontal”).

• (Standard Indonesian) IPA^(key): /horiˈzontal/ [ho.riˈzon̪.t̪al]
• Rhymes: -ontal
• Syllabification: ho‧ri‧zon‧tal

horizontal (comparative lebih horizontal, superlative paling horizontal or terhorizontal, equative sehorizontal)

1. horizontal

   Synonym: mendatar

• horisontal

• “horizontal” in Kamus Besar Bahasa Indonesia, Jakarta: Agency for Language Development and Cultivation – Ministry of Education, Culture, Research, and Technology of the Republic of Indonesia, 2016.

From English horizontal, from Middle French horizontal.

• IPA^(key): [hɔ.ri.zɔn.təl]
• Rhymes: -təl, -əl
• Hyphenation: ho‧ri‧zon‧tal

horizontal (Jawi spelling هوريزونتل)

1. Perpendicular to the vertical; horizontal.

   Synonyms: melintang, mendatar, mengufuk

   Antonyms: mencancang, menegak, vertikal

“horizontal” in Pusat Rujukan Persuratan Melayu | Malay Literary Reference Centre, Kuala Lumpur: Dewan Bahasa dan Pustaka, 2017.

• Rhymes: (Portugal) -al, (Brazil) -aw
• Hyphenation: ho‧ri‧zon‧tal

horizontal m or f (plural horizontais, not comparable)

1. horizontal

   Antonym: vertical

• horizontalmente

• horizonte

• IPA^(key): /oɾiθonˈtal/ [o.ɾi.θõn̪ˈt̪al] (Spain)
• IPA^(key): /oɾisonˈtal/ [o.ɾi.sõn̪ˈt̪al] (Latin America, Philippines)
• Rhymes: -al
• Syllabification: ho‧ri‧zon‧tal

horizontal m or f (masculine and feminine plural horizontales)

1. horizontal

   Antonym: vertical

2. landscape (a mode of printing where the horizontal sides are longer than the vertical sides; in smartphones)

   Synonym: apaisado

• “horizontal”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 10 December 2024