different between vertical vs atilt

English

Etymology

Borrowed from Middle French vertical, from Late Latin vertic?lis.

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /?v??t?k?l/
• (US) enPR: vûr't?k?l, IPA^(key): /?v?t?k?l/

Adjective

vertical (comparative more vertical, superlative most vertical)

1. Standing, pointing, or moving straight up or down; along the direction of a plumb line; perpendicular to something horizontal.

2. In a two-dimensional Cartesian co-ordinate system, describing the axis y oriented normal (perpendicular, at right angles) to the horizontal axis x.
3. In a three-dimensional co-ordinate system, describing the axis z oriented normal (perpendicular, orthogonal) to the basic plane xy.
4. (marketing) Of or pertaining to vertical markets.
5. (wine tasting) Involving different vintages of the same wine type from the same winery.
6. (music) Of an interval: having the two notes sound simultaneously.

   Synonym: harmonic

   Antonym: horizontal

Antonyms

• horizontal

Derived terms

Related terms

• vortal

Translations

Noun

vertical (plural verticals)

1. A vertex or zenith.
2. A vertical geometrical figure; a perpendicular.
3. An individual slat in a set of vertical blinds.
4. A vertical component of a structure.
5. (marketing) A vertical market.

   We offer specialised accounting software targeting various verticals.

Further reading

• vertical at OneLook Dictionary Search

Asturian

Etymology

From Late Latin vertic?lis.

Pronunciation

Adjective

vertical (epicene, plural verticales)

1. vertical

Antonyms

• horizontal

Catalan

Etymology

From Late Latin vertic?lis.

Pronunciation

• (Balearic) IPA^(key): /v??.ti?kal/
• (Central) IPA^(key): /b?r.ti?kal/
• (Valencian) IPA^(key): /ve?.ti?kal/
• Rhymes: -al

Adjective

vertical (masculine and feminine plural verticals)

1. vertical

Antonyms

• horitzontal

Derived terms

• verticalment

French

Etymology

From Late Latin vertic?lis.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /v??.ti.kal/
• Homophones: verticale, verticales

Adjective

vertical (feminine singular verticale, masculine plural verticaux, feminine plural verticales)

1. vertical

Derived terms

• barre verticale

Further reading

• “vertical” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

Galician

Etymology

From Late Latin vertic?lis.

Pronunciation

Adjective

vertical m or f (plural verticais)

1. vertical

Antonyms

• horizontal

Derived terms

• verticalmente

Ladin

Etymology

From Late Latin vertic?lis.

Adjective

vertical m (feminine singular verticala, masculine plural verticai, feminine plural verticales)

1. vertical

Piedmontese

Etymology

From Late Latin vertic?lis.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /v?rti?kal/

Adjective

vertical

1. vertical

Portuguese

Etymology

From Late Latin vertic?lis.

Pronunciation

• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /ve?t(?)i?kaw/
• (Portugal) IPA^(key): /v??ti?ka?/
• Hyphenation: ver?ti?cal

Adjective

vertical m or f (plural verticais, not comparable)

1. vertical

Antonyms

• horizontal

Derived terms

• verticalmente

Romanian

Etymology

From French vertical.

Adjective

vertical m or n (feminine singular vertical?, masculine plural verticali, feminine and neuter plural verticale)

1. vertical

Declension

Related terms

• verticalitate

Spanish

Etymology

From Late Latin vertic?lis.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /be?ti?kal/, [be?.t?i?kal]
• Hyphenation: ver?ti?cal

Adjective

vertical (plural verticales)

1. vertical
2. portrait (a print orientation where the vertical sides are longer than the horizontal sides.; in smartphones)

Antonyms

• horizontal

Derived terms

• verticalmente

English

Alternative forms

• a-tilt

Etymology

a- +? tilt

Adjective

atilt (not comparable)

1. 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

Adverb

atilt (not comparable)

1. 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?

2. 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!

Preposition

atilt

1. 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