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vertical English

Learners of English as a second language usually know the word vertical once they have reached the level B2 – Upper Intermediate. English words by learner level A1 A2 B1 B2 C1 C2

Meaning vertical meaning

What does vertical mean?

Definitions in simple English

vertical Noun

— A line that is upright is called a vertical. Please draw a vertical that intersects the circle.

— The fully upright position is the vertical. The builder used a string to make sure the frame was on the vertical. When the plane lands all seats should be on the vertical.

vertical Adjective

— Something that is standing straight is vertical. In a vertical direction means straight up or down. The radio mast was vertical on the horizon. A vertical shaft went down to the mine. Vertical stripes on a shirt make a person look thinner.

vertical

— adjective (= perpendicular) at right angles to the plane of the horizon or a base line a vertical camera angle the monument consists of two vertical pillars supporting a horizontal slab measure the perpendicular height

— adjective relating to or involving all stages of a business from production to distribution

— adjective of or relating to different levels in a hierarchy (as levels of social class or income group) vertical social mobility

— noun something that is oriented vertically

— noun (= upright) a vertical structural member as a post or stake the ball sailed between the uprights

— adjective (= erect, upright) upright in position or posture an erect stature erect flower stalks for a dog, an erect tail indicates aggression a column still vertical amid the ruins he sat bolt upright

Synonyms vertical synonyms

What other words have the same or similar meaning as vertical?

vertical English » English

upright

perpendicular

erect

sheer

plumb

straight

steep

longitudinal

tall

standing

normal

direct

very straight

vertical line

vertical circle

vert

straight up

stand up

stand erect

scarping

rise perpendicularly

precipitous

portrait style

plump

plumbness

picture

oval

on end

long

just

heightwise

height

frame

elongated

downright

be oval

be elongated

azimuth circle

Topics vertical topics

What do people use vertical to talk about?

States Quality Shape Horizontal

Vertical

• What words describe something in a vertical position?
  vertical upright up-and-down plumb erect upraised perpendicular at right angles square standing true straight straight up bolt upright

Examples vertical examples

How do I use vertical in a sentence?

Simple sentences

That pole is not quite vertical.

The giant plane screamed down in an almost vertical dive.

Keep away from the vertical cliff!

Tango is the vertical expression of a horizontal desire.

The graph of the cosecant function has vertical asymptotes.

The X-axis is the horizontal axis and the Y-axis is the vertical axis.

Mary likes to wear clothes with vertical stripes, because she heard they make you look thinner.

With a plumb bob, the carpenter is making sure that our new house's walls will be vertical.

In the future, most of our food will be grown in vertical farms located inside the city.

The cliff is almost vertical.

He drew some vertical lines on the paper.

Tango is the vertical expression of horizontal desire.

This is a vertical line.

Movie subtitles

With the vertical gun loaded and the impact chamber set, it's time to test and see if the organic material laced onto the projectile can survive a high-speed impact.

He looked the same when he was alive, except he was vertical.

Dad always said to sit up straight and keep the reins tight and your fists vertical.

A vertical-rising jet.

And the vertical positions?

Vertical bearing: minus point nine.

Co-ordinates for area red one: oh-oh-eight-one-nine-three vertical.

Vertical jets, full flaps.

All vertical thrusters have.

All vertical thrusters failed.

It's not perfectly vertical, but from below you can see it better.

This duct leads to a vertical air shaft.

Kzinti ribs have some vertical bracing.

It's crosshatched by steel bars running both vertical and horizontal.

For this we needed new scale-indicators in azimuth and height, corresponding to the horizontal and vertical movements of the telescope.

That thin line of blood indicating an almost vertical cut. It matches completely the cut on your hand, Lewis. Why, the wound on Dearden's hand is an inch shorter and horizontal.

It's used to measure horizontal and vertical angles.

First, the vertical lift.

All right, Mr. Alistair, the vertical lift.

Give us more power on the vertical lift!

Comrade barmaid, so good to a vertical position.

And I favor staying in the vertical, preferably warm.

All vertical thrust is a.

And the next morning, we have to move up this vertical rock face. That'll be pretty tough, I guess.

Yeah, he looked exactly the same when he was alive, except he was vertical.

Horizontal and vertical trusts. and pressure groups that keep under their control the output of labour. and the workers themselves.

Vertical.

You haven't solved the corner situation and the transition to the vertical volume.

If our data is correct, their altitude is 2.2 miles, pitch angle, 20 degrees. Vertical descent 44.6 feet per second.

Measure those squares bisected by my lines both horizontal and vertical.

Essential restored to vertical position.

Viking painted its picture in vertical strokes, line by line until, with enormous relief, we saw the footpad securely planted in the Martian soil.

By examining the moving shadow cast by a vertical stick he determined accurately the lengths of the year and seasons.

On June 21st the shadows of a temple column, or a vertical stick would grow shorter as noon approached.

We ask passengers to bring chairs in a vertical position and fasten your seat belts.

The tank itself was unusual in that it was vertical and looked like an old boiler.

Well, the rapid vertical movement of the shock pattern. would be like the shock wave of a nuclear explosion.

News and current affairs

In the realm of foreign policy, it seems difficult to exploit the traditional vertical links between the Commission and national bureaucracies that instead have worked so well in dealing with national policy issues.

Meanwhile, vertical farm experiments - which aim to augment urban food supplies by cultivating crops in skyscraper greenhouses - are proliferating from the American Midwest to Osaka, Japan.

While some factory jobs can be outsourced or automated, robots cannot yet retrofit buildings, install solar PV cells on rooftops, or construct vertical farms.

Subsidiarity is similar to the concept of solidarity in that it, too, has two interpretations: vertical subsidiarity and horizontal subsidiarity.

Vertical subsidiarity concerns the distribution of powers among different levels of government and sovereignty: the EU, national states, regions, and municipalities.

In the European Treaties, we find a clear expression of vertical subsidiarity.

Fewer still have addressed the need for vertical coordination betweennational and city governments.

In a three-dimensional game, you will lose if you focus only on one board and fail to notice the other boards and the vertical connections among them.

Furthermore, decreased transportation costs and the breakup of vertical production chains in many sectors are facilitating poorer countries' integration into the global economy.