Definition of horizontal in English:

horizontal

adjective hɒrɪˈzɒnt(ə)lˌhɔrəˈzɑn(t)l

1Parallel to the plane of the horizon; at right angles to the vertical.
水平的，横向的
a horizontal line
水平横线。
Example sentencesExamples
- Both vertical and horizontal forehead lines are usually improved by this technique.
- Swimmers must swim face down moving their arms and legs together in a horizontal direction and while their head can be immersed completely, it must break the surface of the water during every complete stroke.
- First, we drew reference lines with a pencil: vertical and horizontal lines that intersected at the center of the circular face.
- We see vertical and horizontal lines, they stand out, because receptors in the eyes are set to perceive them.
- But it's not just the high resolution that makes this screen a good one, it's also evenly lit across the whole surface and the viewing angle is very wide in both the vertical and horizontal planes.
- This rapid motion was all in a horizontal direction.
- Although I don't think the snow's going to lie, as at the moment it's travelling at speed in a horizontal direction, hardly getting a chance to touch the ground.
- The venous outflow was then directed through a narrow horizontal tube that allowed observation of individual drops of fluid at low flow.
- You will actually start moving in water in a horizontal direction.
- The course is simply the horizontal direction in which a vessel is actually moving expressed as an angular distance measured clockwise from north.
- The child bends forward at the waist until the spine becomes parallel to the horizontal plane, while holding palms together with arms extended.
- Architect Frank O. Gehry has made a career out of bending vertical and horizontal lines of building construction into something defiant and sometimes poetic.
- In other word, Neoplasticism represents the absolute elements - primary colours and vertical and horizontal lines - that underlie all appearances.
- Observers made their responses by pressing one of two keys on the computer keyboard, labelled with a vertical or horizontal line.
- The navigator switches on the radar system and the antenna extends, turning through 90° from the horizontal to the vertical plane.
- Racing skates are also adjustable, but only in the horizontal direction, allowing for a longer or shorter wheelbase.
- The minimum circumferential stress around a vertical borehole occurs in the direction of the maximum horizontal stress.
- Mondrian's style of painting involved the use of strictly horizontal or vertical black lines to create a grid of rectangles, some of which were filled in with black or white, or vivid red, blue or yellow.
- A series of these scans in the horizontal and longitudinal direction can be used to compose a grid.
- Vertical or horizontal sag lines mean the garment is too big in that area and needs to be taken in.
Synonyms
parallel, level, even, straight, plane, flush
1. 1.1 (of machinery) having its parts working in a horizontal direction.
  （机器）横行的，卧式的
  a horizontal steam engine
  水平横线。
  Example sentencesExamples
  Mr Gill said the tandem compound horizontal engine was made by Smith Brothers and Eastwood of Bradford and it was the last example of its type built by the firm.
  A central automatic Bentonmac mixing plant featured four horizontal mixers and six 150-ton silos for cement, aggregate and sand.
  The 1 - Series from Makino inaugurates a new era in reliable, high-performance horizontal machine tools.
  The 30 propellant charges on the right in three rows of 10, stowed vertically on a horizontal conveyor belt that runs under the floor of the vehicle.
  The Joint 5X5 AS is equipped with a pneumatic brake and a horizontal clamp which comes in from the front of the machine to stabilize the rabbet.
  Merina weavers use a technique known as akotyfahana, produced on a horizontal, fixed-heddle loom with a continuous weft and warp.
  The low centre of gravity which results from the horizontal engine design has several benefits.
  Leonti ripped the Sestuan's massive sword off of the horizontal mount on the machine's back and parried the other machine's katana with it.
  Siebel specialises in fairly inflexible vertical market products, while Oracle has an array of customisable horizontal CRM systems.
  He first constructed a horizontal wheel that he named a Danaide, and later devised another, the Vortex Water Wheel, which he patented in July 1850 and which came to be used extensively.
  He pushed the legless ends together on the ground so as to form a virtual hub, from which the crossbars radiated up and outward like the spokes of a giant horizontal wheel.
  Piston rods are preferably hardened on a horizontal machine independent of the machining condition of the end face.
  He used Daniel Bernoulli's theoretical work on the ‘reaction effect’ to produce a horizontal waterwheel using the same principle which drives a modern lawn sprinkler.
  I frequently change my leg training program, and sometimes I do presses on the horizontal leg press machine.
2Being at or involving the same level of a hierarchy.
horizontal class loyalties
同阶层的忠诚。
Example sentencesExamples
- While we must still retain a hierarchy of being, Haught asserts that it is not a vertical but a horizontal hierarchy.
- This looks to things in their horizontal relations and thus ignores the many other levels of existence.
- The relationship between the former and latter is more horizontal than hierarchical.
- In fact, the film repeatedly stages horizontal affiliations that work against the strict hierarchies of the cavalry.
- It provided a way for multiple entities in a UDDI directory to link themselves in a hierarchy or in a horizontal, point-to-point chain.
- I see the relationship as basically horizontal on that level, though obviously asymmetric in other ways, including but not limited to the legal aspects.
- The cornerstones are methods of eliminating horizontal violence and hierarchical or patriarchal control.
- But Middleton's play refuses moral conclusions in a new spirit of horizontal time and space that refuses medieval hierarchy.
- A horizontal staff team, consisting of the S2, fire support officer, and S4 is shown at battalion.
- Apparently there is debate among the Friends as to whether their organization is mediated through a relationship to Christ, or whether it is based on horizontal friends-relationships.
- Bureaucracy frustrates desire, channeling it into horizontal loops lacking hierarchy and consequence, dissipating energy and interest.
- Because the structure of the Iraqi insurgency is horizontal as opposed to hierarchical, it cannot be decapitated.
- These are the two obvious situations in which horizontal agreements - those between undertakings operating at the same level in the market - may be condemned.
- Or is the basis of the group entirely horizontal (though with some degree of hierarchy)?
- First, this is the first Arab government in the history of the modern Arab world that's ever been produced by a horizontal conversation among the people in the country itself.
- Significant features of the Coordinadora are the lack of leaders, the practice of direct democracy and horizontal organisation.
- When sabotage is directed at co-workers who are on the same level within an organization's hierarchy, it is called horizontal violence.
1. 2.1 Uniform; based on uniformity.
  统一的，一致的
  horizontal expansion of the international community
  国际社会的统一发展。
  Example sentencesExamples
  The vertical system is based on the value of the claim; the horizontal system is based on territorial criteria.
  The industry needs not only vertical expansion of same clients spending more money but also horizontal expansion by getting newer categories and clients on board for newer mediums and formats.
  He shows how the fragmentation and intensification of territorial communities continued to cement horizontal values of communal identity.
  Some total purchasing pilots also developed processes for horizontal accountability based on peer review of prescribing and referrals.
  One of Starbucks' main priorities has always been horizontal expansion.
  There is consistent evidence of sharp horizontal inequalities between groups in conflict.
  This is a setback for studies of the role of horizontal transfer in niche expansion and speciation.
  Known risk factors were studied to understand other causes of horizontal transmission in the population.
  The 1983 Communication did not call for a horizontal, overarching, regulatory policy which would apply to research in any area using biotechnological processes.
2. 2.2 Combining firms engaged in the same stage or type of production.
  同阶段或同种类生产企业合并的
  a horizontal merger
  水平横线。
  Example sentencesExamples
  It has consequently recognized explicitly the regulator's need to have comparisons by making very difficult any horizontal mergers in the English water industry.
  Cooperation between vendors who even competed with each other is necessary to produce a horizontal solution.
  These include horizontal mergers of acute hospitals, mental health trusts, and community health services trusts.
  These firms achieved most of their financial control through horizontal integration by acquiring the competition.
  Recent studies challenge value creation in conglomerate mergers, concluding that there are no synergies created through diversification or horizontal mergers.
  They wanted to streamline operations, so his firm suggested a horizontal realignment of operations.
  A horizontal merger may enable the new entity to set price and output in the same manner as a single-firm monopolist, with the same consequences for consumer welfare.
  The key issue with horizontal mergers is that they may allow market power to be wielded, either by single-firm monopolists, or by collusive oligopolies.
3Of or at the horizon.
地平线的，在地平线上的
the horizontal moon
在地平线上的月亮。

noun hɒrɪˈzɒnt(ə)lˌhɔrəˈzɑn(t)l

A horizontal line, plane, etc.
水平线，水平面
Example sentencesExamples
- This seems to be expressed in a language of horizontals representing time, and verticals representing a dimension perpendicular to time, in other words: eternity.
- The picture's vectors are mainly limited to short verticals and long horizontals, an interesting take on classical style.
- Here, as in his design of a nautical centre at Bandol, the language is Modernist: floating horizontals, oversailing deck and dissolving glass wall.
- The horizontals and verticals of the pattern extend to an autumnal woodland just beyond a sill which serves as a horizon in the middle distance.
- Originally, the set had four different colors, red, blue, green and yellow, with three colors in each format - large and small, squares, verticals and horizontals.
- In the pink-toned Wire Canyon Cutoff, for example, the matrix of interlaced verticals and horizontals suggests the warp and weft of a tapestry.
- His alternation of horizontals and verticals plays like a musician's notes; each arrangement is a complex, nuanced reflection of universal and personal pathos and always more than the sum of its parts.
- In another image, he paints himself as a Mondrian abstraction, the hints of his profile enough to jar the harmonious verticals and horizontals out of alignment.
- The view outdoors was framed by the horizontals and verticals of the constructed space in which one stood.
- North and south faces of the building are also symmetrical but on the south the pattern of delicate verticals, floating horizontals and projections is more abstract, reminiscent of a Ben Nicholson.
- Nushu characters are structured by four kinds of strokes, including dots, horizontals, verticals and arcs.
- We've been trained to read a horizon where long horizontals prevail.
- Five thin horizontals seem to warp under the pressure of three verticals that are twice as wide.
- Here and elsewhere, verticals and horizontals dominate, and the works feel structurally balanced.
- For your information, all verticals and horizontals run vertical and horizontal in those diagrams, and I've no idea what ‘axis’ you refer to.
- The camera was designed to confront the world in terms of traditional perspective views, with a painter's relation of horizontals and verticals.
- The harmonious combination of diagonals, verticals, and horizontals produces an effect of solidity and permanence.
- The positioning of the diving board - coming at a diagonal out of the corner - gives perspective as well as cutting across the predominant horizontals.
- If you want to make things more creative, you might even try mixing horizontals and verticals in the same assemblage or changing lenses between shots.
- This method in turn created the type of structural beauty, known as the ‘Mondrian pattern,’ which relies on the interplay of horizontals and verticals.
Synonyms
centre line, vertical, horizontal

Derivatives

horizontality

noun hɒrɪzɒnˈtalɪti

The colored shapes are tensely pressed against the black plane; their horizontality and polyphonic punch convey the anxious energy of New York City's sparkling skyline at night.
Example sentencesExamples
- The character of the space still has to do with that incessant horizontality.
- The most visible intervention is a two-storey ‘light beam’ that runs longitudinally along the building, its emphatic horizontality counterbalancing the strong vertical mass of the central chimney.
- This horizontality has always puzzled and offended Americans.
- He was seeking to depart from the horizontality of death (Woman with Her Throat Cut) and to approach the verticality of life.

Origin

Mid 16th century (in sense 3 of the adjective): from French, or from modern Latin horizontalis, from late Latin horizon, horizont- (see horizon).

Rhymes

fontal

Definition of horizontal in US English:

horizontal

adjectiveˌhôrəˈzän(t)lˌhɔrəˈzɑn(t)l

1Parallel to the plane of the horizon; at right angles to the vertical.
水平的，横向的
a horizontal line
水平横线。
Example sentencesExamples
- Architect Frank O. Gehry has made a career out of bending vertical and horizontal lines of building construction into something defiant and sometimes poetic.
- Swimmers must swim face down moving their arms and legs together in a horizontal direction and while their head can be immersed completely, it must break the surface of the water during every complete stroke.
- The venous outflow was then directed through a narrow horizontal tube that allowed observation of individual drops of fluid at low flow.
- Vertical or horizontal sag lines mean the garment is too big in that area and needs to be taken in.
- Although I don't think the snow's going to lie, as at the moment it's travelling at speed in a horizontal direction, hardly getting a chance to touch the ground.
- The navigator switches on the radar system and the antenna extends, turning through 90° from the horizontal to the vertical plane.
- Both vertical and horizontal forehead lines are usually improved by this technique.
- In other word, Neoplasticism represents the absolute elements - primary colours and vertical and horizontal lines - that underlie all appearances.
- The minimum circumferential stress around a vertical borehole occurs in the direction of the maximum horizontal stress.
- This rapid motion was all in a horizontal direction.
- The child bends forward at the waist until the spine becomes parallel to the horizontal plane, while holding palms together with arms extended.
- Observers made their responses by pressing one of two keys on the computer keyboard, labelled with a vertical or horizontal line.
- Mondrian's style of painting involved the use of strictly horizontal or vertical black lines to create a grid of rectangles, some of which were filled in with black or white, or vivid red, blue or yellow.
- First, we drew reference lines with a pencil: vertical and horizontal lines that intersected at the center of the circular face.
- The course is simply the horizontal direction in which a vessel is actually moving expressed as an angular distance measured clockwise from north.
- But it's not just the high resolution that makes this screen a good one, it's also evenly lit across the whole surface and the viewing angle is very wide in both the vertical and horizontal planes.
- A series of these scans in the horizontal and longitudinal direction can be used to compose a grid.
- Racing skates are also adjustable, but only in the horizontal direction, allowing for a longer or shorter wheelbase.
- You will actually start moving in water in a horizontal direction.
- We see vertical and horizontal lines, they stand out, because receptors in the eyes are set to perceive them.
Synonyms
parallel, level, even, straight, plane, flush
1. 1.1 (of machinery) having its parts working in a horizontal direction.
  （机器）横行的，卧式的
  a horizontal steam engine
  水平横线。
  Example sentencesExamples
  Piston rods are preferably hardened on a horizontal machine independent of the machining condition of the end face.
  A central automatic Bentonmac mixing plant featured four horizontal mixers and six 150-ton silos for cement, aggregate and sand.
  Siebel specialises in fairly inflexible vertical market products, while Oracle has an array of customisable horizontal CRM systems.
  Merina weavers use a technique known as akotyfahana, produced on a horizontal, fixed-heddle loom with a continuous weft and warp.
  He first constructed a horizontal wheel that he named a Danaide, and later devised another, the Vortex Water Wheel, which he patented in July 1850 and which came to be used extensively.
  Leonti ripped the Sestuan's massive sword off of the horizontal mount on the machine's back and parried the other machine's katana with it.
  He pushed the legless ends together on the ground so as to form a virtual hub, from which the crossbars radiated up and outward like the spokes of a giant horizontal wheel.
  Mr Gill said the tandem compound horizontal engine was made by Smith Brothers and Eastwood of Bradford and it was the last example of its type built by the firm.
  He used Daniel Bernoulli's theoretical work on the ‘reaction effect’ to produce a horizontal waterwheel using the same principle which drives a modern lawn sprinkler.
  The 30 propellant charges on the right in three rows of 10, stowed vertically on a horizontal conveyor belt that runs under the floor of the vehicle.
  The low centre of gravity which results from the horizontal engine design has several benefits.
  The Joint 5X5 AS is equipped with a pneumatic brake and a horizontal clamp which comes in from the front of the machine to stabilize the rabbet.
  The 1 - Series from Makino inaugurates a new era in reliable, high-performance horizontal machine tools.
  I frequently change my leg training program, and sometimes I do presses on the horizontal leg press machine.
2Involving social groups of equal status.
涉及相同社会阶层的
horizontal class loyalties
同阶层的忠诚。
Example sentencesExamples
- Apparently there is debate among the Friends as to whether their organization is mediated through a relationship to Christ, or whether it is based on horizontal friends-relationships.
- While we must still retain a hierarchy of being, Haught asserts that it is not a vertical but a horizontal hierarchy.
- These are the two obvious situations in which horizontal agreements - those between undertakings operating at the same level in the market - may be condemned.
- It provided a way for multiple entities in a UDDI directory to link themselves in a hierarchy or in a horizontal, point-to-point chain.
- Because the structure of the Iraqi insurgency is horizontal as opposed to hierarchical, it cannot be decapitated.
- The cornerstones are methods of eliminating horizontal violence and hierarchical or patriarchal control.
- Bureaucracy frustrates desire, channeling it into horizontal loops lacking hierarchy and consequence, dissipating energy and interest.
- I see the relationship as basically horizontal on that level, though obviously asymmetric in other ways, including but not limited to the legal aspects.
- A horizontal staff team, consisting of the S2, fire support officer, and S4 is shown at battalion.
- Or is the basis of the group entirely horizontal (though with some degree of hierarchy)?
- First, this is the first Arab government in the history of the modern Arab world that's ever been produced by a horizontal conversation among the people in the country itself.
- The relationship between the former and latter is more horizontal than hierarchical.
- In fact, the film repeatedly stages horizontal affiliations that work against the strict hierarchies of the cavalry.
- This looks to things in their horizontal relations and thus ignores the many other levels of existence.
- But Middleton's play refuses moral conclusions in a new spirit of horizontal time and space that refuses medieval hierarchy.
- Significant features of the Coordinadora are the lack of leaders, the practice of direct democracy and horizontal organisation.
- When sabotage is directed at co-workers who are on the same level within an organization's hierarchy, it is called horizontal violence.
1. 2.1 Merging companies that are engaged in the same stage or type of production.
  同阶段或同种类生产企业合并的
  a horizontal merger
  水平横线。
  Example sentencesExamples
  They wanted to streamline operations, so his firm suggested a horizontal realignment of operations.
  Recent studies challenge value creation in conglomerate mergers, concluding that there are no synergies created through diversification or horizontal mergers.
  A horizontal merger may enable the new entity to set price and output in the same manner as a single-firm monopolist, with the same consequences for consumer welfare.
  The key issue with horizontal mergers is that they may allow market power to be wielded, either by single-firm monopolists, or by collusive oligopolies.
  It has consequently recognized explicitly the regulator's need to have comparisons by making very difficult any horizontal mergers in the English water industry.
  Cooperation between vendors who even competed with each other is necessary to produce a horizontal solution.
  These include horizontal mergers of acute hospitals, mental health trusts, and community health services trusts.
  These firms achieved most of their financial control through horizontal integration by acquiring the competition.
3Of or at the horizon.
地平线的，在地平线上的
the horizontal moon
在地平线上的月亮。

nounˌhôrəˈzän(t)lˌhɔrəˈzɑn(t)l

A horizontal line, plane, etc.
水平线，水平面
Example sentencesExamples
- In another image, he paints himself as a Mondrian abstraction, the hints of his profile enough to jar the harmonious verticals and horizontals out of alignment.
- Originally, the set had four different colors, red, blue, green and yellow, with three colors in each format - large and small, squares, verticals and horizontals.
- North and south faces of the building are also symmetrical but on the south the pattern of delicate verticals, floating horizontals and projections is more abstract, reminiscent of a Ben Nicholson.
- If you want to make things more creative, you might even try mixing horizontals and verticals in the same assemblage or changing lenses between shots.
- Here, as in his design of a nautical centre at Bandol, the language is Modernist: floating horizontals, oversailing deck and dissolving glass wall.
- The view outdoors was framed by the horizontals and verticals of the constructed space in which one stood.
- Nushu characters are structured by four kinds of strokes, including dots, horizontals, verticals and arcs.
- The picture's vectors are mainly limited to short verticals and long horizontals, an interesting take on classical style.
- For your information, all verticals and horizontals run vertical and horizontal in those diagrams, and I've no idea what ‘axis’ you refer to.
- The camera was designed to confront the world in terms of traditional perspective views, with a painter's relation of horizontals and verticals.
- The positioning of the diving board - coming at a diagonal out of the corner - gives perspective as well as cutting across the predominant horizontals.
- In the pink-toned Wire Canyon Cutoff, for example, the matrix of interlaced verticals and horizontals suggests the warp and weft of a tapestry.
- The horizontals and verticals of the pattern extend to an autumnal woodland just beyond a sill which serves as a horizon in the middle distance.
- Here and elsewhere, verticals and horizontals dominate, and the works feel structurally balanced.
- The harmonious combination of diagonals, verticals, and horizontals produces an effect of solidity and permanence.
- This method in turn created the type of structural beauty, known as the ‘Mondrian pattern,’ which relies on the interplay of horizontals and verticals.
- His alternation of horizontals and verticals plays like a musician's notes; each arrangement is a complex, nuanced reflection of universal and personal pathos and always more than the sum of its parts.
- This seems to be expressed in a language of horizontals representing time, and verticals representing a dimension perpendicular to time, in other words: eternity.
- We've been trained to read a horizon where long horizontals prevail.
- Five thin horizontals seem to warp under the pressure of three verticals that are twice as wide.
Synonyms
centre line, vertical, horizontal

Origin

Mid 16th century (in horizontal (sense 3 of the adjective)): from French, or from modern Latin horizontalis, from late Latin horizon, horizont- (see horizon).

词汇	horizontal
释义	Definition of horizontal in English: horizontal adjective hɒrɪˈzɒnt(ə)lˌhɔrəˈzɑn(t)l 1Parallel to the plane of the horizon; at right angles to the vertical. 水平的，横向的 a horizontal line 水平横线。 Example sentencesExamples Both vertical and horizontal forehead lines are usually improved by this technique. Swimmers must swim face down moving their arms and legs together in a horizontal direction and while their head can be immersed completely, it must break the surface of the water during every complete stroke. First, we drew reference lines with a pencil: vertical and horizontal lines that intersected at the center of the circular face. We see vertical and horizontal lines, they stand out, because receptors in the eyes are set to perceive them. But it's not just the high resolution that makes this screen a good one, it's also evenly lit across the whole surface and the viewing angle is very wide in both the vertical and horizontal planes. This rapid motion was all in a horizontal direction. Although I don't think the snow's going to lie, as at the moment it's travelling at speed in a horizontal direction, hardly getting a chance to touch the ground. The venous outflow was then directed through a narrow horizontal tube that allowed observation of individual drops of fluid at low flow. You will actually start moving in water in a horizontal direction. The course is simply the horizontal direction in which a vessel is actually moving expressed as an angular distance measured clockwise from north. The child bends forward at the waist until the spine becomes parallel to the horizontal plane, while holding palms together with arms extended. Architect Frank O. Gehry has made a career out of bending vertical and horizontal lines of building construction into something defiant and sometimes poetic. In other word, Neoplasticism represents the absolute elements - primary colours and vertical and horizontal lines - that underlie all appearances. Observers made their responses by pressing one of two keys on the computer keyboard, labelled with a vertical or horizontal line. The navigator switches on the radar system and the antenna extends, turning through 90° from the horizontal to the vertical plane. Racing skates are also adjustable, but only in the horizontal direction, allowing for a longer or shorter wheelbase. The minimum circumferential stress around a vertical borehole occurs in the direction of the maximum horizontal stress. Mondrian's style of painting involved the use of strictly horizontal or vertical black lines to create a grid of rectangles, some of which were filled in with black or white, or vivid red, blue or yellow. A series of these scans in the horizontal and longitudinal direction can be used to compose a grid. Vertical or horizontal sag lines mean the garment is too big in that area and needs to be taken in. Synonyms parallel, level, even, straight, plane, flush 1.1 (of machinery) having its parts working in a horizontal direction. （机器）横行的，卧式的 a horizontal steam engine 水平横线。 Example sentencesExamples Mr Gill said the tandem compound horizontal engine was made by Smith Brothers and Eastwood of Bradford and it was the last example of its type built by the firm. A central automatic Bentonmac mixing plant featured four horizontal mixers and six 150-ton silos for cement, aggregate and sand. The 1 - Series from Makino inaugurates a new era in reliable, high-performance horizontal machine tools. The 30 propellant charges on the right in three rows of 10, stowed vertically on a horizontal conveyor belt that runs under the floor of the vehicle. The Joint 5X5 AS is equipped with a pneumatic brake and a horizontal clamp which comes in from the front of the machine to stabilize the rabbet. Merina weavers use a technique known as akotyfahana, produced on a horizontal, fixed-heddle loom with a continuous weft and warp. The low centre of gravity which results from the horizontal engine design has several benefits. Leonti ripped the Sestuan's massive sword off of the horizontal mount on the machine's back and parried the other machine's katana with it. Siebel specialises in fairly inflexible vertical market products, while Oracle has an array of customisable horizontal CRM systems. He first constructed a horizontal wheel that he named a Danaide, and later devised another, the Vortex Water Wheel, which he patented in July 1850 and which came to be used extensively. He pushed the legless ends together on the ground so as to form a virtual hub, from which the crossbars radiated up and outward like the spokes of a giant horizontal wheel. Piston rods are preferably hardened on a horizontal machine independent of the machining condition of the end face. He used Daniel Bernoulli's theoretical work on the ‘reaction effect’ to produce a horizontal waterwheel using the same principle which drives a modern lawn sprinkler. I frequently change my leg training program, and sometimes I do presses on the horizontal leg press machine. 2Being at or involving the same level of a hierarchy. horizontal class loyalties 同阶层的忠诚。 Example sentencesExamples While we must still retain a hierarchy of being, Haught asserts that it is not a vertical but a horizontal hierarchy. This looks to things in their horizontal relations and thus ignores the many other levels of existence. The relationship between the former and latter is more horizontal than hierarchical. In fact, the film repeatedly stages horizontal affiliations that work against the strict hierarchies of the cavalry. It provided a way for multiple entities in a UDDI directory to link themselves in a hierarchy or in a horizontal, point-to-point chain. I see the relationship as basically horizontal on that level, though obviously asymmetric in other ways, including but not limited to the legal aspects. The cornerstones are methods of eliminating horizontal violence and hierarchical or patriarchal control. But Middleton's play refuses moral conclusions in a new spirit of horizontal time and space that refuses medieval hierarchy. A horizontal staff team, consisting of the S2, fire support officer, and S4 is shown at battalion. Apparently there is debate among the Friends as to whether their organization is mediated through a relationship to Christ, or whether it is based on horizontal friends-relationships. Bureaucracy frustrates desire, channeling it into horizontal loops lacking hierarchy and consequence, dissipating energy and interest. Because the structure of the Iraqi insurgency is horizontal as opposed to hierarchical, it cannot be decapitated. These are the two obvious situations in which horizontal agreements - those between undertakings operating at the same level in the market - may be condemned. Or is the basis of the group entirely horizontal (though with some degree of hierarchy)? First, this is the first Arab government in the history of the modern Arab world that's ever been produced by a horizontal conversation among the people in the country itself. Significant features of the Coordinadora are the lack of leaders, the practice of direct democracy and horizontal organisation. When sabotage is directed at co-workers who are on the same level within an organization's hierarchy, it is called horizontal violence. 2.1 Uniform; based on uniformity. 统一的，一致的 horizontal expansion of the international community 国际社会的统一发展。 Example sentencesExamples The vertical system is based on the value of the claim; the horizontal system is based on territorial criteria. The industry needs not only vertical expansion of same clients spending more money but also horizontal expansion by getting newer categories and clients on board for newer mediums and formats. He shows how the fragmentation and intensification of territorial communities continued to cement horizontal values of communal identity. Some total purchasing pilots also developed processes for horizontal accountability based on peer review of prescribing and referrals. One of Starbucks' main priorities has always been horizontal expansion. There is consistent evidence of sharp horizontal inequalities between groups in conflict. This is a setback for studies of the role of horizontal transfer in niche expansion and speciation. Known risk factors were studied to understand other causes of horizontal transmission in the population. The 1983 Communication did not call for a horizontal, overarching, regulatory policy which would apply to research in any area using biotechnological processes. 2.2 Combining firms engaged in the same stage or type of production. 同阶段或同种类生产企业合并的 a horizontal merger 水平横线。 Example sentencesExamples It has consequently recognized explicitly the regulator's need to have comparisons by making very difficult any horizontal mergers in the English water industry. Cooperation between vendors who even competed with each other is necessary to produce a horizontal solution. These include horizontal mergers of acute hospitals, mental health trusts, and community health services trusts. These firms achieved most of their financial control through horizontal integration by acquiring the competition. Recent studies challenge value creation in conglomerate mergers, concluding that there are no synergies created through diversification or horizontal mergers. They wanted to streamline operations, so his firm suggested a horizontal realignment of operations. A horizontal merger may enable the new entity to set price and output in the same manner as a single-firm monopolist, with the same consequences for consumer welfare. The key issue with horizontal mergers is that they may allow market power to be wielded, either by single-firm monopolists, or by collusive oligopolies. 3Of or at the horizon. 地平线的，在地平线上的 the horizontal moon 在地平线上的月亮。 noun hɒrɪˈzɒnt(ə)lˌhɔrəˈzɑn(t)l A horizontal line, plane, etc. 水平线，水平面 Example sentencesExamples This seems to be expressed in a language of horizontals representing time, and verticals representing a dimension perpendicular to time, in other words: eternity. The picture's vectors are mainly limited to short verticals and long horizontals, an interesting take on classical style. Here, as in his design of a nautical centre at Bandol, the language is Modernist: floating horizontals, oversailing deck and dissolving glass wall. The horizontals and verticals of the pattern extend to an autumnal woodland just beyond a sill which serves as a horizon in the middle distance. Originally, the set had four different colors, red, blue, green and yellow, with three colors in each format - large and small, squares, verticals and horizontals. In the pink-toned Wire Canyon Cutoff, for example, the matrix of interlaced verticals and horizontals suggests the warp and weft of a tapestry. His alternation of horizontals and verticals plays like a musician's notes; each arrangement is a complex, nuanced reflection of universal and personal pathos and always more than the sum of its parts. In another image, he paints himself as a Mondrian abstraction, the hints of his profile enough to jar the harmonious verticals and horizontals out of alignment. The view outdoors was framed by the horizontals and verticals of the constructed space in which one stood. North and south faces of the building are also symmetrical but on the south the pattern of delicate verticals, floating horizontals and projections is more abstract, reminiscent of a Ben Nicholson. Nushu characters are structured by four kinds of strokes, including dots, horizontals, verticals and arcs. We've been trained to read a horizon where long horizontals prevail. Five thin horizontals seem to warp under the pressure of three verticals that are twice as wide. Here and elsewhere, verticals and horizontals dominate, and the works feel structurally balanced. For your information, all verticals and horizontals run vertical and horizontal in those diagrams, and I've no idea what ‘axis’ you refer to. The camera was designed to confront the world in terms of traditional perspective views, with a painter's relation of horizontals and verticals. The harmonious combination of diagonals, verticals, and horizontals produces an effect of solidity and permanence. The positioning of the diving board - coming at a diagonal out of the corner - gives perspective as well as cutting across the predominant horizontals. If you want to make things more creative, you might even try mixing horizontals and verticals in the same assemblage or changing lenses between shots. This method in turn created the type of structural beauty, known as the ‘Mondrian pattern,’ which relies on the interplay of horizontals and verticals. Synonyms centre line, vertical, horizontal Derivatives horizontality noun hɒrɪzɒnˈtalɪti The colored shapes are tensely pressed against the black plane; their horizontality and polyphonic punch convey the anxious energy of New York City's sparkling skyline at night. Example sentencesExamples The character of the space still has to do with that incessant horizontality. The most visible intervention is a two-storey ‘light beam’ that runs longitudinally along the building, its emphatic horizontality counterbalancing the strong vertical mass of the central chimney. This horizontality has always puzzled and offended Americans. He was seeking to depart from the horizontality of death (Woman with Her Throat Cut) and to approach the verticality of life. Origin Mid 16th century (in sense 3 of the adjective): from French, or from modern Latin horizontalis, from late Latin horizon, horizont- (see horizon). Rhymes fontal Definition of horizontal in US English: horizontal adjectiveˌhôrəˈzän(t)lˌhɔrəˈzɑn(t)l 1Parallel to the plane of the horizon; at right angles to the vertical. 水平的，横向的 a horizontal line 水平横线。 Example sentencesExamples Architect Frank O. Gehry has made a career out of bending vertical and horizontal lines of building construction into something defiant and sometimes poetic. Swimmers must swim face down moving their arms and legs together in a horizontal direction and while their head can be immersed completely, it must break the surface of the water during every complete stroke. The venous outflow was then directed through a narrow horizontal tube that allowed observation of individual drops of fluid at low flow. Vertical or horizontal sag lines mean the garment is too big in that area and needs to be taken in. Although I don't think the snow's going to lie, as at the moment it's travelling at speed in a horizontal direction, hardly getting a chance to touch the ground. The navigator switches on the radar system and the antenna extends, turning through 90° from the horizontal to the vertical plane. Both vertical and horizontal forehead lines are usually improved by this technique. In other word, Neoplasticism represents the absolute elements - primary colours and vertical and horizontal lines - that underlie all appearances. The minimum circumferential stress around a vertical borehole occurs in the direction of the maximum horizontal stress. This rapid motion was all in a horizontal direction. The child bends forward at the waist until the spine becomes parallel to the horizontal plane, while holding palms together with arms extended. Observers made their responses by pressing one of two keys on the computer keyboard, labelled with a vertical or horizontal line. Mondrian's style of painting involved the use of strictly horizontal or vertical black lines to create a grid of rectangles, some of which were filled in with black or white, or vivid red, blue or yellow. First, we drew reference lines with a pencil: vertical and horizontal lines that intersected at the center of the circular face. The course is simply the horizontal direction in which a vessel is actually moving expressed as an angular distance measured clockwise from north. But it's not just the high resolution that makes this screen a good one, it's also evenly lit across the whole surface and the viewing angle is very wide in both the vertical and horizontal planes. A series of these scans in the horizontal and longitudinal direction can be used to compose a grid. Racing skates are also adjustable, but only in the horizontal direction, allowing for a longer or shorter wheelbase. You will actually start moving in water in a horizontal direction. We see vertical and horizontal lines, they stand out, because receptors in the eyes are set to perceive them. Synonyms parallel, level, even, straight, plane, flush 1.1 (of machinery) having its parts working in a horizontal direction. （机器）横行的，卧式的 a horizontal steam engine 水平横线。 Example sentencesExamples Piston rods are preferably hardened on a horizontal machine independent of the machining condition of the end face. A central automatic Bentonmac mixing plant featured four horizontal mixers and six 150-ton silos for cement, aggregate and sand. Siebel specialises in fairly inflexible vertical market products, while Oracle has an array of customisable horizontal CRM systems. Merina weavers use a technique known as akotyfahana, produced on a horizontal, fixed-heddle loom with a continuous weft and warp. He first constructed a horizontal wheel that he named a Danaide, and later devised another, the Vortex Water Wheel, which he patented in July 1850 and which came to be used extensively. Leonti ripped the Sestuan's massive sword off of the horizontal mount on the machine's back and parried the other machine's katana with it. He pushed the legless ends together on the ground so as to form a virtual hub, from which the crossbars radiated up and outward like the spokes of a giant horizontal wheel. Mr Gill said the tandem compound horizontal engine was made by Smith Brothers and Eastwood of Bradford and it was the last example of its type built by the firm. He used Daniel Bernoulli's theoretical work on the ‘reaction effect’ to produce a horizontal waterwheel using the same principle which drives a modern lawn sprinkler. The 30 propellant charges on the right in three rows of 10, stowed vertically on a horizontal conveyor belt that runs under the floor of the vehicle. The low centre of gravity which results from the horizontal engine design has several benefits. The Joint 5X5 AS is equipped with a pneumatic brake and a horizontal clamp which comes in from the front of the machine to stabilize the rabbet. The 1 - Series from Makino inaugurates a new era in reliable, high-performance horizontal machine tools. I frequently change my leg training program, and sometimes I do presses on the horizontal leg press machine. 2Involving social groups of equal status. 涉及相同社会阶层的 horizontal class loyalties 同阶层的忠诚。 Example sentencesExamples Apparently there is debate among the Friends as to whether their organization is mediated through a relationship to Christ, or whether it is based on horizontal friends-relationships. While we must still retain a hierarchy of being, Haught asserts that it is not a vertical but a horizontal hierarchy. These are the two obvious situations in which horizontal agreements - those between undertakings operating at the same level in the market - may be condemned. It provided a way for multiple entities in a UDDI directory to link themselves in a hierarchy or in a horizontal, point-to-point chain. Because the structure of the Iraqi insurgency is horizontal as opposed to hierarchical, it cannot be decapitated. The cornerstones are methods of eliminating horizontal violence and hierarchical or patriarchal control. Bureaucracy frustrates desire, channeling it into horizontal loops lacking hierarchy and consequence, dissipating energy and interest. I see the relationship as basically horizontal on that level, though obviously asymmetric in other ways, including but not limited to the legal aspects. A horizontal staff team, consisting of the S2, fire support officer, and S4 is shown at battalion. Or is the basis of the group entirely horizontal (though with some degree of hierarchy)? First, this is the first Arab government in the history of the modern Arab world that's ever been produced by a horizontal conversation among the people in the country itself. The relationship between the former and latter is more horizontal than hierarchical. In fact, the film repeatedly stages horizontal affiliations that work against the strict hierarchies of the cavalry. This looks to things in their horizontal relations and thus ignores the many other levels of existence. But Middleton's play refuses moral conclusions in a new spirit of horizontal time and space that refuses medieval hierarchy. Significant features of the Coordinadora are the lack of leaders, the practice of direct democracy and horizontal organisation. When sabotage is directed at co-workers who are on the same level within an organization's hierarchy, it is called horizontal violence. 2.1 Merging companies that are engaged in the same stage or type of production. 同阶段或同种类生产企业合并的 a horizontal merger 水平横线。 Example sentencesExamples They wanted to streamline operations, so his firm suggested a horizontal realignment of operations. Recent studies challenge value creation in conglomerate mergers, concluding that there are no synergies created through diversification or horizontal mergers. A horizontal merger may enable the new entity to set price and output in the same manner as a single-firm monopolist, with the same consequences for consumer welfare. The key issue with horizontal mergers is that they may allow market power to be wielded, either by single-firm monopolists, or by collusive oligopolies. It has consequently recognized explicitly the regulator's need to have comparisons by making very difficult any horizontal mergers in the English water industry. Cooperation between vendors who even competed with each other is necessary to produce a horizontal solution. These include horizontal mergers of acute hospitals, mental health trusts, and community health services trusts. These firms achieved most of their financial control through horizontal integration by acquiring the competition. 3Of or at the horizon. 地平线的，在地平线上的 the horizontal moon 在地平线上的月亮。 nounˌhôrəˈzän(t)lˌhɔrəˈzɑn(t)l A horizontal line, plane, etc. 水平线，水平面 Example sentencesExamples In another image, he paints himself as a Mondrian abstraction, the hints of his profile enough to jar the harmonious verticals and horizontals out of alignment. Originally, the set had four different colors, red, blue, green and yellow, with three colors in each format - large and small, squares, verticals and horizontals. North and south faces of the building are also symmetrical but on the south the pattern of delicate verticals, floating horizontals and projections is more abstract, reminiscent of a Ben Nicholson. If you want to make things more creative, you might even try mixing horizontals and verticals in the same assemblage or changing lenses between shots. Here, as in his design of a nautical centre at Bandol, the language is Modernist: floating horizontals, oversailing deck and dissolving glass wall. The view outdoors was framed by the horizontals and verticals of the constructed space in which one stood. Nushu characters are structured by four kinds of strokes, including dots, horizontals, verticals and arcs. The picture's vectors are mainly limited to short verticals and long horizontals, an interesting take on classical style. For your information, all verticals and horizontals run vertical and horizontal in those diagrams, and I've no idea what ‘axis’ you refer to. The camera was designed to confront the world in terms of traditional perspective views, with a painter's relation of horizontals and verticals. The positioning of the diving board - coming at a diagonal out of the corner - gives perspective as well as cutting across the predominant horizontals. In the pink-toned Wire Canyon Cutoff, for example, the matrix of interlaced verticals and horizontals suggests the warp and weft of a tapestry. The horizontals and verticals of the pattern extend to an autumnal woodland just beyond a sill which serves as a horizon in the middle distance. Here and elsewhere, verticals and horizontals dominate, and the works feel structurally balanced. The harmonious combination of diagonals, verticals, and horizontals produces an effect of solidity and permanence. This method in turn created the type of structural beauty, known as the ‘Mondrian pattern,’ which relies on the interplay of horizontals and verticals. His alternation of horizontals and verticals plays like a musician's notes; each arrangement is a complex, nuanced reflection of universal and personal pathos and always more than the sum of its parts. This seems to be expressed in a language of horizontals representing time, and verticals representing a dimension perpendicular to time, in other words: eternity. We've been trained to read a horizon where long horizontals prevail. Five thin horizontals seem to warp under the pressure of three verticals that are twice as wide. Synonyms centre line, vertical, horizontal Origin Mid 16th century (in horizontal (sense 3 of the adjective)): from French, or from modern Latin horizontalis, from late Latin horizon, horizont- (see horizon).
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