horizontally
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3.2
- adverb
- /həˈrɪzənˌtally/
:
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.
- C is going to tell you where to shift horizontally, shift left, shift right.
- So that compresses it horizontally or stretches it vertically.
- I'm going to take that one as a light dusting horizontally across my face.
- It's not a chain proof or something like that, but horizontally extensive.
- Why does air move horizontally on the Earth?
- It's not important how many hours we are lying horizontally in the bed.
Examples
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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?
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C is going to tell you where to shift horizontally, shift left, shift right.
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Why does air move horizontally on the Earth?
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It's not important how many hours we are lying horizontally in the bed.
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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.
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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
100
2.1
At or toward the side instead of straight ahead
8
5.0
To the side, moving in a sideways way
1
4.6
In a direction that is toward one side rather than forward or backward
1
6.6
To the side or at an angle
With the flat, wide side lying down on a surface
To move toward one side
Antonyms
Compounds
How Horizontal
Surface Forms
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.