different between horizontal vs atilt
horizontal
English
Etymology
Borrowed from French horizontal.
Pronunciation
- (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /?h????z?nt?l/
- (US) IPA(key): /?h?????z??nt?l/
Adjective
horizontal (comparative more horizontal, superlative most horizontal)
- perpendicular to the vertical; parallel to the plane of the horizon; level, flat
- (marketing) relating to horizontal markets
- (archaic) pertaining to the horizon
- 1667: As when the Sun new ris'n / Looks through the Horizontal misty Air — John Milton, Paradise Lost, Book 1, ll. 594-5
- (wine tasting) involving wines of the same vintages but from different wineries
- (music) Of an interval: having the two notes sound successively.
- Synonyms: linear, melodic
- Antonym: vertical
Antonyms
- vertical
Derived terms
Translations
Noun
horizontal (plural horizontals)
- a horizontal component of a structure
- (geology) horizon
- a Tasmanian shrub or small tree whose main trunk tends to lean over and grow horizontally, Anodopetalum biglandulosum
Translations
Anagrams
- notorhizal
Albanian
Etymology
Probably from English horizontal; the -al adjectival suffix is neither native to Albanian, nor was it borrowed from Latin earlier on.
Adjective
horizontal m (feminine horizontale)
- horizontal
Related terms
- horizont
Asturian
Adjective
horizontal (epicene, plural horizontales)
- horizontal
- Antonym: vertical
Related terms
- horizonte
French
Alternative forms
- horisontal
Etymology
Derived from Latin horiz?n (“horizon”) + -?lis (suffix forming adjectives from nouns).
Pronunciation
- (mute h) IPA(key): /?.?i.z??.tal/
- Homophones: horisontal, horisontale, horisontales, horizontale, horizontales
Adjective
horizontal (feminine singular horizontale, masculine plural horizontaux, feminine plural horizontales)
- horizontal
- Antonym: vertical
Derived terms
- horizontalement
Related terms
- horizon
Further reading
- “horizontal” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).
Galician
Adjective
horizontal m or f (plural horizontais)
- horizontal
- Antonym: vertical
Derived terms
- horizontalmente
Related terms
- horizonte
German
Pronunciation
- Rhymes: -a?l
Adjective
horizontal (not comparable)
- horizontal
- Synonyms: waagrecht, waagerecht
- Antonyms: vertikal, senkrecht
Declension
Derived terms
- Horizontale
Further reading
- “horizontal” in Duden online
Portuguese
Adjective
horizontal m or f (plural horizontais, not comparable)
- horizontal
- Antonym: vertical
Derived terms
- horizontalmente
Related terms
- horizonte
Spanish
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): (Spain) /o?i?on?tal/, [o.?i.?õn??t?al]
- IPA(key): (Latin America) /o?ison?tal/, [o.?i.sõn??t?al]
Adjective
horizontal (plural horizontales)
- horizontal
- Antonym: vertical
- landscape (a mode of printing where the horizontal sides are longer than the vertical sides; in smartphones)
- Antonym: vertical
Derived terms
- horizontalmente
Related terms
- horizonte
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atilt
English
Alternative forms
- a-tilt
Etymology
a- +? tilt
Adjective
atilt (not comparable)
- At an angle from the vertical or horizontal.
- 1902, William Dean Howells, “Worries of a Winter Walk” in Literature and Life, New York: Harper, p. 37,[1]
- When I came to the river, I ached in sympathy with the shipping painfully atilt on the rock-like surface of the brine, which broke against the piers, and sprayed itself over them like showers of powdered quartz.
- 1918, Winston Churchill, A Traveller in War-Time, New York: Macmillan, Chapter 3, p. 77,[2]
- In other villages the shawled women sat knitting behind piles of beets and cabbages and apples, their farm-carts atilt in the sun.
- 1954, Allen Ginsberg, Journal entry in Gordon Ball (ed.), Journals, New York: Grove, 1977, p. 70,
- Pink bedroom lamp, shade atilt over Uncle Abe’s ancient clean radio,
- Synonym: tilted
- 1902, William Dean Howells, “Worries of a Winter Walk” in Literature and Life, New York: Harper, p. 37,[1]
Adverb
atilt (not comparable)
- At an angle from the vertical or horizontal; at the point of falling over.
- 1659, Nicholas Culpeper, Culpeper’s School of Physick, London: N. Brook, “Doctor Diets Directory,” p. 300,[3]
- Ale should not be drunk under five dayes old; new Ale is unwholsome, sowre Ale, and dead, and Ale which do stand atilt is most unwholesome.
- 1733, Alexander Pope, The Impertinent, London: John Wileord, p. 12,[4]
- In that nice Moment, as another Lye
- Stood just a-tilt, the Minister came by.
- 1928, Maurice Walsh, While Rivers Run, London: W. & R. Chambers, Chapter 24,[5]
- […] the slope flattened to a wide shelf where limestone cropped through the heather and many huge boulders were scattered atilt.
- 1969, Ray Bradbury, “The Haunting of the New” in I Sing the Body Electric!, New York: Knopf p. 136,[6]
- Had earthquakes shaken the windows atilt so they mirrored intruders with distorted gleams and glares?
- 1659, Nicholas Culpeper, Culpeper’s School of Physick, London: N. Brook, “Doctor Diets Directory,” p. 300,[3]
- Tilting or as if tilting (charging with a lance, like a knight on horseback in a joust).
- c. 1591, William Shakespeare, Henry VI, Part 1, Act III, Scene 2,[7]
- What will you do, good grey-beard? break a lance,
- And run a tilt at death within a chair?
- 1669, Samuel Lee, Contemplations on Mortality, London, Chapter 7, p. 69,[8]
- The shadow of death to David is but the shadow of evill. Though ten thousand Curiassiers run upon him atilt with envenom’d and poysoned spears, he layes him down in the bosome of God, he sleeps in peace;
- 1684, Samuel Butler, Hudibras, London, Canto 2, p. 79,[9]
- Make feeble Ladies, in their Works,
- To fight like Termagants and Turks;
- To lay their native Arms aside,
- Their modesty, and ride a-stride;
- To run a-Tilt at Men, and wield
- Their naked tools in open field;
- 1895, F. F. Montrésor, Into the Highways and Hedges, New York: Appleton, Part 2, Chapter 9, p. 235,[10]
- Other people may ride atilt against all the problems one bruises head and heart over. Good luck go with them, and more power to their elbows!
- c. 1591, William Shakespeare, Henry VI, Part 1, Act III, Scene 2,[7]
Preposition
atilt
- Diagonally over or across.
- Synonym: aslant
- 1911, Jennie Brooks, Under Oxford Trees, Cincinnati: Jennings and Graham, p. 80,[11]
- A butterfly flew into the garden, danced a stately minuet mid-air, courtsied, and settled atilt the top rail of the old “snake fence.”
- 1982, Jean Scott Wood Creighton (as J. S. Borthwick), The Case of the Hook-billed Kites, New York: St. Martin’s Press, Chapter 11, p. 29,[12]
- [He] was balanced atilt a wooden chair, his legs resting on a low file cabinet.
- 2004, Tracy Dahlby, Allah’s Torch, New York: William Morrow, Chapter 11, p. 146,[13]
- With his shy grin, bushy black hair, and thick plastic-framed glasses riding atilt his nose, Reza looked like a high school techno-whiz temporarily locked out of the computer lab.
Anagrams
- T-tail
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