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horizontally

horizontally

25 3.2
In a flat, level direction from side to side
  • adverb
  • /həˈrɪzənˌtally/
translation icon : horizontalmente
  • The screen covered a visual field of approximately 240 degrees horizontally and 100 degrees vertically.
  • placed horizontally
  • horizontally oriented
  • runs horizontally

C is going to tell you where to shift horizontally, shift left, shift right.

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Examples

  • In Turkey, women's work in factories is divided both horizontally and vertically.

    Academic text (2008)
  • Maggot reached a tough spot and crossed horizontally until he found another handhold above him.

    Fiction book (2002)
  • See, light has no mass, so it's always going horizontally only, right?

  • C is going to tell you where to shift horizontally, shift left, shift right.

  • Why does air move horizontally on the Earth?

  • It's not important how many hours we are lying horizontally in the bed.

  • The specimens were cast as a single element lying horizontally on the floor.

    Academic text (2017)
  • You limit it to jumping only horizontally left and right, or vertically up and down.

  • The results can be read both horizontally and vertically to detect trends.

    Academic text (2011)
  • The airplane flew horizontally above the clouds, gliding smoothly in the blue sky.

Synonyms

sideways
vshorizontally
100 2.1

At or toward the side instead of straight ahead

is about being level and parallel to the horizon rather than turned to the side
laterally
vshorizontally
8 5.0

To the side, moving in a sideways way

is about movement or position parallel to the horizon
sidewards
vshorizontally
1 4.6

In a direction that is toward one side rather than forward or backward

is about being level and parallel to the horizon, not toward the side
sidewise
vshorizontally
1 6.6

To the side or at an angle

is about being level and parallel to the horizon, not angled
flatwise
vshorizontally
4.9

With the flat, wide side lying down on a surface

is about being level and parallel to the horizon
sideward
vshorizontally
4.2

To move toward one side

is about being level and parallel to the horizon, not toward the side

Antonyms

32 1.8

In a straight line up and down

Compounds

8.8

A polite, joking way to say someone is overweight

How Horizontal

horizontally
25 3.2
diagonally
15 3.0
vertically
32 1.8

Surface Forms

horizontally positive

Morphology

horizontally = horizontal (transparent) = horizontal + ly

Formed by adding the productive adverbial suffix '-ly' to the adjective 'horizontal', producing the expected adverbial meaning.

Etymology

Horizontally comes from horizon, the line where the sky meets the earth. So to place something horizontally is to put it flat or side-to-side, 'like the horizon', running across in the same direction as that line.