Definition of vertical in English:

vertical

adjective ˈvəːtɪk(ə)lˈvərdək(ə)l

1At right angles to a horizontal plane; in a direction, or having an alignment, such that the top is directly above the bottom.
垂直的；竖的
the vertical axis
纵轴线。
keep your back vertical
背要挺直。
Example sentencesExamples
- The cloth denotes both vertical and horizontal planes as pure modulation, without any opposition between them.
- Their eyes fluttered across the breadth of vertical and horizontal planes, missing no detail of change.
- First, penetration of the environment is essentially in the vertical plane rather than horizontal.
- The inclinometers are 2-way sensors which record rotations with the vertical direction in two orthogonal vertical planes.
- These corners appear in the horizontal and vertical planes.
- The added patterns were folded, and profiles in horizontal and vertical direction were obtained for further analysis.
- Layered gabbros at the deeper levels have been rotated so that their layering is nearly vertical.
- The earthquake resulted from horizontal displacement of the ground across a nearly vertical fault plane.
- The climb ahead was nearly vertical in ascent with few to none hand holds.
- The ship was capable of doing a completely vertical takeoff, when she was on her feet.
- These are vertical planes of horizontally stacked planks of wood backed by a pole or beam planted in the ground.
- The navigator switches on the radar system and the antenna extends, turning through 90° from the horizontal to the vertical plane.
- We all shouted ' hold tight ' and then we were almost vertical going up this massive wave.
- The true parameter values used in the simulations are shown as shaded vertical bars.
- Next she removed a scalpel from her first aid kit and made a small vertical incision into the trachea.
- The green line is charted against the left vertical axis.
- But gravity actually functions as a source of support for structures that are properly aligned around a predominantly vertical axis.
- Lines every 15 feet divide the field into squares, both in horizontal and vertical direction.
- Genes are represented by branches along the left vertical axis.
- One mirror has a thick vertical fluorescent orange stripe of paint running up its center, the other a horizontal.
Synonyms
upright, erect, perpendicular, plumb, straight (up and down), on end, standing, upstanding, bolt upright, upended
sheer, steep, sharp, precipitous, bluff, vertiginous
Heraldry rampant
rare acclivitous, declivitous, scarped
2Involving different levels or stages of a hierarchy or process.
不同层次（或等级）的，尤指
Example sentencesExamples
- The human being possesses levels of reality situated in the vertical hierarchy of body, soul and spirit.
- With all firings, Chrysler ended up stripping out several levels of management, with a much flatter vertical hierarchy.
- The initial approach was to have different block exemptions for different types of vertical agreement.
- Note that each graph has a different vertical scale.
- Scinduism must do away with the vertical hierarchy of castes and the complete plethora of superstitious beliefs.
- Managerial employees, anxious about job security and access to vertical mobility, may pressure themselves into working longer hours.
- It emphasized lateral links between members of the same class rather than vertical cross-class national solidarities.
- Thus, the objective of this article is to empirically test the market power motive of vertical integration-a different objective from that of Bhuyan.
- This vertical contact between grade levels was further enhanced through assignments to committees that established curricular goals.
- Its initiative resulted in the early twentieth century in a process of vertical segmentation or pluralism known as pillarization.
- ‘A lot of the design process in such a vertical house involves figuring out how to get people around,’ says Ranon.
- You aren't sure of what you've read, once you get to the end of the horizontal line in the process of creating a vertical meaning.
- This type of marginality can be illustrated easily in antiquity in relation to hierarchy, or vertical social ranking.
- We don't usually divide it into vertical levels, and no particular distinction is made in terms of correspondences depending on depth.
1. 2.1 Involving all the stages from the production to the sale of a class of goods.
  （某类产品从生产到销售各个阶段）纵向结构的，垂直结构的
  we need more vertical cooperation between manufacturers and service providers
  Example sentencesExamples
  Under vertical FDI, the corporation keeps control of the various stages of a production process.
  Still, the opportunities of vertical retailing are strong lures.
  The vertical dimension of a cluster consists of firms with complementary products and competencies that are linked through supplier and customer relations.
  ‘We are a completely vertical toy company, like none other,’ Booker says.
  There are two types of vertical market-places, which bring buyers and sellers together to facilitate transactions.
  As a consequence, we see today, the disintegration of vertical industries and the rapid growth of global specialists.
  First, I analyze prior research on the impact of vertical cooperation on firm performance and present the theoretical framework.
  ‘Lawson continues to have good products and a good vertical strategy,’ says Sholler.
  In the vertical production structure, work is contracted out to households, which use child labour freely.
  The great sugar entrepreneur also saw the profit to be made in vertical integration.
  We're vertical, supplying the tools to other Web sites.
  Leach's worry is that vertical integration will stifle competition.
  To be vertical is not easy, but it is the only way to offer customers quality and consistency.
  That's why Resolve is designed to encourage vertical work.
  One is large companies coming together in their industries to create vertical marketplaces to streamline procurement.
2. 2.2 (especially of the transmission of disease or genetic traits) passed from one generation to the next.
  （尤指疾病或遗传特性传递）代代相传的，垂直传递的，垂直传播的
  vertical transmission of the virus
  Example sentencesExamples
  Short vertical lines indicate deletion endpoints defined by cloned sequences.
  Phylogenetic analyses of these elements in the genus Drosophila indicate a strictly vertical transmission of R1 and R2.
  Vaccination in utero may reduce the vertical transmission of infectious diseases.
  Well informed general practitioners can and should play a part in preventing vertical transmission of HIV.
  A total of 266 knew that vertical transmission can be reduced.
3Anatomy
Relating to the crown of the head.
〔剖〕颅顶的，头顶的
Example sentencesExamples
- The paramedian forehead flap was centered over the supratrochlear artery in a vertical orientation.
- The aberrant vessel can be traced to the middle ear with an apparent absence of the right vertical carotid canal.
4archaic Denoting a point at the zenith or the highest point of something.
〈古〉顶点的，最高点的

noun ˈvəːtɪk(ə)lˈvərdək(ə)l

1usually the verticalA vertical line or plane.
垂直线；垂直面
the columns incline several degrees away from the vertical
那些柱子有几度的倾斜。
Example sentencesExamples
- The best direction for the thrust line is thus not the same as the gravitational vertical.
- In one motion they flip from the horizontal to the vertical.
- The defendant's lintel had a rear support which was inclined 6° or 8° from the vertical.
- Like the stern, the bow itself is upside-down, its line rising just off the vertical from the seabed with keel uppermost.
- Simeon shoots with a recurve bow in which the ends curve up to the vertical whereas a long bow is D-shaped.
- Gravi-responding hypocotyls or coleoptiles can likewise show enormous variations in trajectory back to the vertical.
- From the horizontal line that crossed the vertical, the line curved around and met the bottom end of the vertical.
- We will control the horizontal; we will control the vertical.
- If the signal is slightly mistuned, the line is a bit buckled and rotated against the vertical.
- When doing this turn, the swimmer would roll to his side, keeping his shoulders just shy of the vertical.
- The walls angle away from the vertical by 10 degrees and wrap around to create a rising spiral shape that can be read from both inside and outside.
- Its harbour elevation tilts out at approximately 8 degrees from the vertical; the elevation to the Adriatic at twice that incline.
- The horizontal plane addressed, we now turn to the vertical.
- The concrete curves seem to organize the circulation routes, the horizontal as well as the vertical.
- The original photo the designer found and cropped on the vertical at the far right just didn't have the resolution for the job.
- Friction with the table top forces the egg to rise up in a series of little jerks, and this shifts the axis of symmetry somewhat towards the vertical.
- At noon on midsummer's day he measured the length of the shadow, and calculated that the sun was 7° south of the vertical.
- When it comes to the comments feature, remember that I control the horizontal and the vertical.
- The engine began to hum and the metal supports moved the shuttle ninety degrees to the vertical.
2An upright structure.
垂直物；竖杆
we remodelled the opening with a simple lintel and unadorned verticals
我们用一个简易的楣和几根未装饰的竖杆改建了洞口。
Example sentencesExamples
- The emphatic verticals of sheet metal piling mark out the eastern and northern peripheries of the car park.
- One by one they trotted and cantered over little crossbars and verticals and then filed out into the smaller grass ring that adjourned the hunt field.
- The horizon is low, the masts and hulks of the ships making a series of horizontals and verticals receding far into the distance.
- I like to build verticals (multiple vintages) of wines and we need enough to both sell and age.
- It is broadly composed around two matching verticals that suggest abstract maypoles.
- The city's numerous verticals depict a rich trading past and its journey into the 21st century.
- Originally, this elongated oval, itself perfectly aligned with the vertical of the colonnette, would have been cut precisely in half by the diagonal of the spear.
- Cleveland Bays are natural jumpers, and they excel at verticals.
- A Paul Nash-like landscape of stark black verticals against a black ground was created.
- The whiteness of the paint on the wooden verticals had the effect of dispersing the mass of the structures.
- They can be disturbing unless supported by verticals or opposing diagonals.
- Two intense verticals divide the format vertically, on the right hand side of which is more incised carpet, left a creamy hue.
- And a block down the road is the Jeppe Street Post Office, an impressive building in light grey granite with tall attractive verticals.
3The distance between the highest and lowest points of a ski area.
（滑雪场）最高点与最低点的距离，垂直高度差
the resort claims a vertical of 2,100 metres
那个旅游胜地称其滑雪场垂直高度差有2，100米。
Example sentencesExamples
- Without the verticals of Vail or Park City, they could never develop into anything more than regional, half-year ski destinations.

Derivatives

verticality

noun vəːtɪˈkalɪtiˌvərdəˈkælədi

By the mid 1920s, he brought the theme to a new pitch of verticality in the Birds in Space.
Example sentencesExamples
- But no amount of groundwork could prepare you for the verticality of the cliffs here.
- With its height and verticality, the Climbing Wall serves as an important therapeutic metaphor.
- Moyer emphasizes the dramatic verticality of this large canvas by stacking images to create a kind of countercultural monument.
- They are part of our heritage, their verticality allowed us to maximize the opening, and they look good.

verticalize

verbˈvəːtɪkəlʌɪzˈvərdəkəˌlaɪz

[with object]

1often as adjective verticalizedRepresent or align vertically, such that the top is directly above the bottom.
a verticalized representation
Example sentencesExamples
- Another decision I had to make was to verticalize each of the sales forces, because I didn't want three people calling on the same account.
- More to the point, Ormus chooses an absolutely verticalized reality, one that excludes all temporal process.
- The loop can start to roll from one plane to another, it can horizontalize, or it can verticalize so that the viewer sees only up-and-down movements.
- a decision I had to make was to verticalize each of the sales forces
- no object the best marketing tech companies are verticalizing
2Adapt to a vertical market.

Origin

Mid 16th century (in the sense 'directly overhead'): from French, or from late Latin verticalis, from vertex (see vertex).

Definition of vertical in US English:

vertical

adjectiveˈvərdək(ə)lˈvərdək(ə)l

1At right angles to a horizontal plane; in a direction, or having an alignment, such that the top is directly above the bottom.
垂直的；竖的
the vertical axis
纵轴线。
keep your back vertical
背要挺直。
Example sentencesExamples
- One mirror has a thick vertical fluorescent orange stripe of paint running up its center, the other a horizontal.
- But gravity actually functions as a source of support for structures that are properly aligned around a predominantly vertical axis.
- We all shouted ' hold tight ' and then we were almost vertical going up this massive wave.
- Their eyes fluttered across the breadth of vertical and horizontal planes, missing no detail of change.
- Lines every 15 feet divide the field into squares, both in horizontal and vertical direction.
- First, penetration of the environment is essentially in the vertical plane rather than horizontal.
- The climb ahead was nearly vertical in ascent with few to none hand holds.
- The navigator switches on the radar system and the antenna extends, turning through 90° from the horizontal to the vertical plane.
- Layered gabbros at the deeper levels have been rotated so that their layering is nearly vertical.
- These are vertical planes of horizontally stacked planks of wood backed by a pole or beam planted in the ground.
- The true parameter values used in the simulations are shown as shaded vertical bars.
- The added patterns were folded, and profiles in horizontal and vertical direction were obtained for further analysis.
- Genes are represented by branches along the left vertical axis.
- The ship was capable of doing a completely vertical takeoff, when she was on her feet.
- The earthquake resulted from horizontal displacement of the ground across a nearly vertical fault plane.
- These corners appear in the horizontal and vertical planes.
- The green line is charted against the left vertical axis.
- Next she removed a scalpel from her first aid kit and made a small vertical incision into the trachea.
- The inclinometers are 2-way sensors which record rotations with the vertical direction in two orthogonal vertical planes.
- The cloth denotes both vertical and horizontal planes as pure modulation, without any opposition between them.
Synonyms
upright, erect, perpendicular, plumb, straight, straight up and down, on end, standing, upstanding, bolt upright, upended
2Involving different levels of a hierarchy or progression.
不同层次（或等级）的，尤指
Example sentencesExamples
- Thus, the objective of this article is to empirically test the market power motive of vertical integration-a different objective from that of Bhuyan.
- With all firings, Chrysler ended up stripping out several levels of management, with a much flatter vertical hierarchy.
- You aren't sure of what you've read, once you get to the end of the horizontal line in the process of creating a vertical meaning.
- ‘A lot of the design process in such a vertical house involves figuring out how to get people around,’ says Ranon.
- Scinduism must do away with the vertical hierarchy of castes and the complete plethora of superstitious beliefs.
- We don't usually divide it into vertical levels, and no particular distinction is made in terms of correspondences depending on depth.
- This type of marginality can be illustrated easily in antiquity in relation to hierarchy, or vertical social ranking.
- Managerial employees, anxious about job security and access to vertical mobility, may pressure themselves into working longer hours.
- The human being possesses levels of reality situated in the vertical hierarchy of body, soul and spirit.
- Note that each graph has a different vertical scale.
- The initial approach was to have different block exemptions for different types of vertical agreement.
- Its initiative resulted in the early twentieth century in a process of vertical segmentation or pluralism known as pillarization.
- It emphasized lateral links between members of the same class rather than vertical cross-class national solidarities.
- This vertical contact between grade levels was further enhanced through assignments to committees that established curricular goals.
1. 2.1 Involving all the stages from the production to the sale of a class of goods.
  （某类产品从生产到销售各个阶段）纵向结构的，垂直结构的
  Example sentencesExamples
  Under vertical FDI, the corporation keeps control of the various stages of a production process.
  As a consequence, we see today, the disintegration of vertical industries and the rapid growth of global specialists.
  To be vertical is not easy, but it is the only way to offer customers quality and consistency.
  ‘Lawson continues to have good products and a good vertical strategy,’ says Sholler.
  Still, the opportunities of vertical retailing are strong lures.
  One is large companies coming together in their industries to create vertical marketplaces to streamline procurement.
  ‘We are a completely vertical toy company, like none other,’ Booker says.
  That's why Resolve is designed to encourage vertical work.
  First, I analyze prior research on the impact of vertical cooperation on firm performance and present the theoretical framework.
  Leach's worry is that vertical integration will stifle competition.
  The great sugar entrepreneur also saw the profit to be made in vertical integration.
  There are two types of vertical market-places, which bring buyers and sellers together to facilitate transactions.
  The vertical dimension of a cluster consists of firms with complementary products and competencies that are linked through supplier and customer relations.
  We're vertical, supplying the tools to other Web sites.
  In the vertical production structure, work is contracted out to households, which use child labour freely.
2. 2.2 (especially of the transmission of disease or genetic traits) passed from one generation to the next.
  （尤指疾病或遗传特性传递）代代相传的，垂直传递的，垂直传播的
  Example sentencesExamples
  Phylogenetic analyses of these elements in the genus Drosophila indicate a strictly vertical transmission of R1 and R2.
  Well informed general practitioners can and should play a part in preventing vertical transmission of HIV.
  Vaccination in utero may reduce the vertical transmission of infectious diseases.
  Short vertical lines indicate deletion endpoints defined by cloned sequences.
  A total of 266 knew that vertical transmission can be reduced.
3Anatomy
Relating to the crown of the head.
〔剖〕颅顶的，头顶的
Example sentencesExamples
- The paramedian forehead flap was centered over the supratrochlear artery in a vertical orientation.
- The aberrant vessel can be traced to the middle ear with an apparent absence of the right vertical carotid canal.
4archaic Denoting a point at the zenith or the highest point of something.
〈古〉顶点的，最高点的

nounˈvərdək(ə)lˈvərdək(ə)l

1usually the verticalA vertical line or plane.
垂直线；垂直面
the columns incline several degrees away from the vertical
那些柱子有几度的倾斜。
Example sentencesExamples
- The defendant's lintel had a rear support which was inclined 6° or 8° from the vertical.
- The engine began to hum and the metal supports moved the shuttle ninety degrees to the vertical.
- At noon on midsummer's day he measured the length of the shadow, and calculated that the sun was 7° south of the vertical.
- The best direction for the thrust line is thus not the same as the gravitational vertical.
- When doing this turn, the swimmer would roll to his side, keeping his shoulders just shy of the vertical.
- In one motion they flip from the horizontal to the vertical.
- Like the stern, the bow itself is upside-down, its line rising just off the vertical from the seabed with keel uppermost.
- The horizontal plane addressed, we now turn to the vertical.
- The walls angle away from the vertical by 10 degrees and wrap around to create a rising spiral shape that can be read from both inside and outside.
- Gravi-responding hypocotyls or coleoptiles can likewise show enormous variations in trajectory back to the vertical.
- Friction with the table top forces the egg to rise up in a series of little jerks, and this shifts the axis of symmetry somewhat towards the vertical.
- Its harbour elevation tilts out at approximately 8 degrees from the vertical; the elevation to the Adriatic at twice that incline.
- We will control the horizontal; we will control the vertical.
- From the horizontal line that crossed the vertical, the line curved around and met the bottom end of the vertical.
- When it comes to the comments feature, remember that I control the horizontal and the vertical.
- The concrete curves seem to organize the circulation routes, the horizontal as well as the vertical.
- If the signal is slightly mistuned, the line is a bit buckled and rotated against the vertical.
- The original photo the designer found and cropped on the vertical at the far right just didn't have the resolution for the job.
- Simeon shoots with a recurve bow in which the ends curve up to the vertical whereas a long bow is D-shaped.
2An upright structure.
垂直物；竖杆
we remodeled the opening with a simple lintel and unadorned verticals
我们用一个简易的楣和几根未装饰的竖杆改建了洞口。
Example sentencesExamples
- Cleveland Bays are natural jumpers, and they excel at verticals.
- The city's numerous verticals depict a rich trading past and its journey into the 21st century.
- I like to build verticals (multiple vintages) of wines and we need enough to both sell and age.
- Originally, this elongated oval, itself perfectly aligned with the vertical of the colonnette, would have been cut precisely in half by the diagonal of the spear.
- The emphatic verticals of sheet metal piling mark out the eastern and northern peripheries of the car park.
- It is broadly composed around two matching verticals that suggest abstract maypoles.
- And a block down the road is the Jeppe Street Post Office, an impressive building in light grey granite with tall attractive verticals.
- Two intense verticals divide the format vertically, on the right hand side of which is more incised carpet, left a creamy hue.
- One by one they trotted and cantered over little crossbars and verticals and then filed out into the smaller grass ring that adjourned the hunt field.
- The whiteness of the paint on the wooden verticals had the effect of dispersing the mass of the structures.
- They can be disturbing unless supported by verticals or opposing diagonals.
- The horizon is low, the masts and hulks of the ships making a series of horizontals and verticals receding far into the distance.
- A Paul Nash-like landscape of stark black verticals against a black ground was created.
3The distance between the highest and lowest points of a ski area.
（滑雪场）最高点与最低点的距离，垂直高度差
the resort claims a vertical of 2,100 meters
那个旅游胜地称其滑雪场垂直高度差有2，100米。
Example sentencesExamples
- Without the verticals of Vail or Park City, they could never develop into anything more than regional, half-year ski destinations.
4
short for vertical tasting

Origin

Mid 16th century (in the sense ‘directly overhead’): from French, or from late Latin verticalis, from vertex (see vertex).

词汇	vertical
释义	Definition of vertical in English: vertical adjective ˈvəːtɪk(ə)lˈvərdək(ə)l 1At right angles to a horizontal plane; in a direction, or having an alignment, such that the top is directly above the bottom. 垂直的；竖的 the vertical axis 纵轴线。 keep your back vertical 背要挺直。 Example sentencesExamples The cloth denotes both vertical and horizontal planes as pure modulation, without any opposition between them. Their eyes fluttered across the breadth of vertical and horizontal planes, missing no detail of change. First, penetration of the environment is essentially in the vertical plane rather than horizontal. The inclinometers are 2-way sensors which record rotations with the vertical direction in two orthogonal vertical planes. These corners appear in the horizontal and vertical planes. The added patterns were folded, and profiles in horizontal and vertical direction were obtained for further analysis. Layered gabbros at the deeper levels have been rotated so that their layering is nearly vertical. The earthquake resulted from horizontal displacement of the ground across a nearly vertical fault plane. The climb ahead was nearly vertical in ascent with few to none hand holds. The ship was capable of doing a completely vertical takeoff, when she was on her feet. These are vertical planes of horizontally stacked planks of wood backed by a pole or beam planted in the ground. The navigator switches on the radar system and the antenna extends, turning through 90° from the horizontal to the vertical plane. We all shouted ' hold tight ' and then we were almost vertical going up this massive wave. The true parameter values used in the simulations are shown as shaded vertical bars. Next she removed a scalpel from her first aid kit and made a small vertical incision into the trachea. The green line is charted against the left vertical axis. But gravity actually functions as a source of support for structures that are properly aligned around a predominantly vertical axis. Lines every 15 feet divide the field into squares, both in horizontal and vertical direction. Genes are represented by branches along the left vertical axis. One mirror has a thick vertical fluorescent orange stripe of paint running up its center, the other a horizontal. Synonyms upright, erect, perpendicular, plumb, straight (up and down), on end, standing, upstanding, bolt upright, upended sheer, steep, sharp, precipitous, bluff, vertiginous Heraldry rampant rare acclivitous, declivitous, scarped 2Involving different levels or stages of a hierarchy or process. 不同层次（或等级）的，尤指 Example sentencesExamples The human being possesses levels of reality situated in the vertical hierarchy of body, soul and spirit. With all firings, Chrysler ended up stripping out several levels of management, with a much flatter vertical hierarchy. The initial approach was to have different block exemptions for different types of vertical agreement. Note that each graph has a different vertical scale. Scinduism must do away with the vertical hierarchy of castes and the complete plethora of superstitious beliefs. Managerial employees, anxious about job security and access to vertical mobility, may pressure themselves into working longer hours. It emphasized lateral links between members of the same class rather than vertical cross-class national solidarities. Thus, the objective of this article is to empirically test the market power motive of vertical integration-a different objective from that of Bhuyan. This vertical contact between grade levels was further enhanced through assignments to committees that established curricular goals. Its initiative resulted in the early twentieth century in a process of vertical segmentation or pluralism known as pillarization. ‘A lot of the design process in such a vertical house involves figuring out how to get people around,’ says Ranon. You aren't sure of what you've read, once you get to the end of the horizontal line in the process of creating a vertical meaning. This type of marginality can be illustrated easily in antiquity in relation to hierarchy, or vertical social ranking. We don't usually divide it into vertical levels, and no particular distinction is made in terms of correspondences depending on depth. 2.1 Involving all the stages from the production to the sale of a class of goods. （某类产品从生产到销售各个阶段）纵向结构的，垂直结构的 we need more vertical cooperation between manufacturers and service providers Example sentencesExamples Under vertical FDI, the corporation keeps control of the various stages of a production process. Still, the opportunities of vertical retailing are strong lures. The vertical dimension of a cluster consists of firms with complementary products and competencies that are linked through supplier and customer relations. ‘We are a completely vertical toy company, like none other,’ Booker says. There are two types of vertical market-places, which bring buyers and sellers together to facilitate transactions. As a consequence, we see today, the disintegration of vertical industries and the rapid growth of global specialists. First, I analyze prior research on the impact of vertical cooperation on firm performance and present the theoretical framework. ‘Lawson continues to have good products and a good vertical strategy,’ says Sholler. In the vertical production structure, work is contracted out to households, which use child labour freely. The great sugar entrepreneur also saw the profit to be made in vertical integration. We're vertical, supplying the tools to other Web sites. Leach's worry is that vertical integration will stifle competition. To be vertical is not easy, but it is the only way to offer customers quality and consistency. That's why Resolve is designed to encourage vertical work. One is large companies coming together in their industries to create vertical marketplaces to streamline procurement. 2.2 (especially of the transmission of disease or genetic traits) passed from one generation to the next. （尤指疾病或遗传特性传递）代代相传的，垂直传递的，垂直传播的 vertical transmission of the virus Example sentencesExamples Short vertical lines indicate deletion endpoints defined by cloned sequences. Phylogenetic analyses of these elements in the genus Drosophila indicate a strictly vertical transmission of R1 and R2. Vaccination in utero may reduce the vertical transmission of infectious diseases. Well informed general practitioners can and should play a part in preventing vertical transmission of HIV. A total of 266 knew that vertical transmission can be reduced. 3Anatomy Relating to the crown of the head. 〔剖〕颅顶的，头顶的 Example sentencesExamples The paramedian forehead flap was centered over the supratrochlear artery in a vertical orientation. The aberrant vessel can be traced to the middle ear with an apparent absence of the right vertical carotid canal. 4archaic Denoting a point at the zenith or the highest point of something. 〈古〉顶点的，最高点的 noun ˈvəːtɪk(ə)lˈvərdək(ə)l 1usually the verticalA vertical line or plane. 垂直线；垂直面 the columns incline several degrees away from the vertical 那些柱子有几度的倾斜。 Example sentencesExamples The best direction for the thrust line is thus not the same as the gravitational vertical. In one motion they flip from the horizontal to the vertical. The defendant's lintel had a rear support which was inclined 6° or 8° from the vertical. Like the stern, the bow itself is upside-down, its line rising just off the vertical from the seabed with keel uppermost. Simeon shoots with a recurve bow in which the ends curve up to the vertical whereas a long bow is D-shaped. Gravi-responding hypocotyls or coleoptiles can likewise show enormous variations in trajectory back to the vertical. From the horizontal line that crossed the vertical, the line curved around and met the bottom end of the vertical. We will control the horizontal; we will control the vertical. If the signal is slightly mistuned, the line is a bit buckled and rotated against the vertical. When doing this turn, the swimmer would roll to his side, keeping his shoulders just shy of the vertical. The walls angle away from the vertical by 10 degrees and wrap around to create a rising spiral shape that can be read from both inside and outside. Its harbour elevation tilts out at approximately 8 degrees from the vertical; the elevation to the Adriatic at twice that incline. The horizontal plane addressed, we now turn to the vertical. The concrete curves seem to organize the circulation routes, the horizontal as well as the vertical. The original photo the designer found and cropped on the vertical at the far right just didn't have the resolution for the job. Friction with the table top forces the egg to rise up in a series of little jerks, and this shifts the axis of symmetry somewhat towards the vertical. At noon on midsummer's day he measured the length of the shadow, and calculated that the sun was 7° south of the vertical. When it comes to the comments feature, remember that I control the horizontal and the vertical. The engine began to hum and the metal supports moved the shuttle ninety degrees to the vertical. 2An upright structure. 垂直物；竖杆 we remodelled the opening with a simple lintel and unadorned verticals 我们用一个简易的楣和几根未装饰的竖杆改建了洞口。 Example sentencesExamples The emphatic verticals of sheet metal piling mark out the eastern and northern peripheries of the car park. One by one they trotted and cantered over little crossbars and verticals and then filed out into the smaller grass ring that adjourned the hunt field. The horizon is low, the masts and hulks of the ships making a series of horizontals and verticals receding far into the distance. I like to build verticals (multiple vintages) of wines and we need enough to both sell and age. It is broadly composed around two matching verticals that suggest abstract maypoles. The city's numerous verticals depict a rich trading past and its journey into the 21st century. Originally, this elongated oval, itself perfectly aligned with the vertical of the colonnette, would have been cut precisely in half by the diagonal of the spear. Cleveland Bays are natural jumpers, and they excel at verticals. A Paul Nash-like landscape of stark black verticals against a black ground was created. The whiteness of the paint on the wooden verticals had the effect of dispersing the mass of the structures. They can be disturbing unless supported by verticals or opposing diagonals. Two intense verticals divide the format vertically, on the right hand side of which is more incised carpet, left a creamy hue. And a block down the road is the Jeppe Street Post Office, an impressive building in light grey granite with tall attractive verticals. 3The distance between the highest and lowest points of a ski area. （滑雪场）最高点与最低点的距离，垂直高度差 the resort claims a vertical of 2,100 metres 那个旅游胜地称其滑雪场垂直高度差有2，100米。 Example sentencesExamples Without the verticals of Vail or Park City, they could never develop into anything more than regional, half-year ski destinations. Derivatives verticality noun vəːtɪˈkalɪtiˌvərdəˈkælədi By the mid 1920s, he brought the theme to a new pitch of verticality in the Birds in Space. Example sentencesExamples But no amount of groundwork could prepare you for the verticality of the cliffs here. With its height and verticality, the Climbing Wall serves as an important therapeutic metaphor. Moyer emphasizes the dramatic verticality of this large canvas by stacking images to create a kind of countercultural monument. They are part of our heritage, their verticality allowed us to maximize the opening, and they look good. verticalize verbˈvəːtɪkəlʌɪzˈvərdəkəˌlaɪz [with object] 1often as adjective verticalizedRepresent or align vertically, such that the top is directly above the bottom. a verticalized representation Example sentencesExamples Another decision I had to make was to verticalize each of the sales forces, because I didn't want three people calling on the same account. More to the point, Ormus chooses an absolutely verticalized reality, one that excludes all temporal process. The loop can start to roll from one plane to another, it can horizontalize, or it can verticalize so that the viewer sees only up-and-down movements. a decision I had to make was to verticalize each of the sales forces no object the best marketing tech companies are verticalizing 2Adapt to a vertical market. Origin Mid 16th century (in the sense 'directly overhead'): from French, or from late Latin verticalis, from vertex (see vertex). Definition of vertical in US English: vertical adjectiveˈvərdək(ə)lˈvərdək(ə)l 1At right angles to a horizontal plane; in a direction, or having an alignment, such that the top is directly above the bottom. 垂直的；竖的 the vertical axis 纵轴线。 keep your back vertical 背要挺直。 Example sentencesExamples One mirror has a thick vertical fluorescent orange stripe of paint running up its center, the other a horizontal. But gravity actually functions as a source of support for structures that are properly aligned around a predominantly vertical axis. We all shouted ' hold tight ' and then we were almost vertical going up this massive wave. Their eyes fluttered across the breadth of vertical and horizontal planes, missing no detail of change. Lines every 15 feet divide the field into squares, both in horizontal and vertical direction. First, penetration of the environment is essentially in the vertical plane rather than horizontal. The climb ahead was nearly vertical in ascent with few to none hand holds. The navigator switches on the radar system and the antenna extends, turning through 90° from the horizontal to the vertical plane. Layered gabbros at the deeper levels have been rotated so that their layering is nearly vertical. These are vertical planes of horizontally stacked planks of wood backed by a pole or beam planted in the ground. The true parameter values used in the simulations are shown as shaded vertical bars. The added patterns were folded, and profiles in horizontal and vertical direction were obtained for further analysis. Genes are represented by branches along the left vertical axis. The ship was capable of doing a completely vertical takeoff, when she was on her feet. The earthquake resulted from horizontal displacement of the ground across a nearly vertical fault plane. These corners appear in the horizontal and vertical planes. The green line is charted against the left vertical axis. Next she removed a scalpel from her first aid kit and made a small vertical incision into the trachea. The inclinometers are 2-way sensors which record rotations with the vertical direction in two orthogonal vertical planes. The cloth denotes both vertical and horizontal planes as pure modulation, without any opposition between them. Synonyms upright, erect, perpendicular, plumb, straight, straight up and down, on end, standing, upstanding, bolt upright, upended 2Involving different levels of a hierarchy or progression. 不同层次（或等级）的，尤指 Example sentencesExamples Thus, the objective of this article is to empirically test the market power motive of vertical integration-a different objective from that of Bhuyan. With all firings, Chrysler ended up stripping out several levels of management, with a much flatter vertical hierarchy. You aren't sure of what you've read, once you get to the end of the horizontal line in the process of creating a vertical meaning. ‘A lot of the design process in such a vertical house involves figuring out how to get people around,’ says Ranon. Scinduism must do away with the vertical hierarchy of castes and the complete plethora of superstitious beliefs. We don't usually divide it into vertical levels, and no particular distinction is made in terms of correspondences depending on depth. This type of marginality can be illustrated easily in antiquity in relation to hierarchy, or vertical social ranking. Managerial employees, anxious about job security and access to vertical mobility, may pressure themselves into working longer hours. The human being possesses levels of reality situated in the vertical hierarchy of body, soul and spirit. Note that each graph has a different vertical scale. The initial approach was to have different block exemptions for different types of vertical agreement. Its initiative resulted in the early twentieth century in a process of vertical segmentation or pluralism known as pillarization. It emphasized lateral links between members of the same class rather than vertical cross-class national solidarities. This vertical contact between grade levels was further enhanced through assignments to committees that established curricular goals. 2.1 Involving all the stages from the production to the sale of a class of goods. （某类产品从生产到销售各个阶段）纵向结构的，垂直结构的 Example sentencesExamples Under vertical FDI, the corporation keeps control of the various stages of a production process. As a consequence, we see today, the disintegration of vertical industries and the rapid growth of global specialists. To be vertical is not easy, but it is the only way to offer customers quality and consistency. ‘Lawson continues to have good products and a good vertical strategy,’ says Sholler. Still, the opportunities of vertical retailing are strong lures. One is large companies coming together in their industries to create vertical marketplaces to streamline procurement. ‘We are a completely vertical toy company, like none other,’ Booker says. That's why Resolve is designed to encourage vertical work. First, I analyze prior research on the impact of vertical cooperation on firm performance and present the theoretical framework. Leach's worry is that vertical integration will stifle competition. The great sugar entrepreneur also saw the profit to be made in vertical integration. There are two types of vertical market-places, which bring buyers and sellers together to facilitate transactions. The vertical dimension of a cluster consists of firms with complementary products and competencies that are linked through supplier and customer relations. We're vertical, supplying the tools to other Web sites. In the vertical production structure, work is contracted out to households, which use child labour freely. 2.2 (especially of the transmission of disease or genetic traits) passed from one generation to the next. （尤指疾病或遗传特性传递）代代相传的，垂直传递的，垂直传播的 Example sentencesExamples Phylogenetic analyses of these elements in the genus Drosophila indicate a strictly vertical transmission of R1 and R2. Well informed general practitioners can and should play a part in preventing vertical transmission of HIV. Vaccination in utero may reduce the vertical transmission of infectious diseases. Short vertical lines indicate deletion endpoints defined by cloned sequences. A total of 266 knew that vertical transmission can be reduced. 3Anatomy Relating to the crown of the head. 〔剖〕颅顶的，头顶的 Example sentencesExamples The paramedian forehead flap was centered over the supratrochlear artery in a vertical orientation. The aberrant vessel can be traced to the middle ear with an apparent absence of the right vertical carotid canal. 4archaic Denoting a point at the zenith or the highest point of something. 〈古〉顶点的，最高点的 nounˈvərdək(ə)lˈvərdək(ə)l 1usually the verticalA vertical line or plane. 垂直线；垂直面 the columns incline several degrees away from the vertical 那些柱子有几度的倾斜。 Example sentencesExamples The defendant's lintel had a rear support which was inclined 6° or 8° from the vertical. The engine began to hum and the metal supports moved the shuttle ninety degrees to the vertical. At noon on midsummer's day he measured the length of the shadow, and calculated that the sun was 7° south of the vertical. The best direction for the thrust line is thus not the same as the gravitational vertical. When doing this turn, the swimmer would roll to his side, keeping his shoulders just shy of the vertical. In one motion they flip from the horizontal to the vertical. Like the stern, the bow itself is upside-down, its line rising just off the vertical from the seabed with keel uppermost. The horizontal plane addressed, we now turn to the vertical. The walls angle away from the vertical by 10 degrees and wrap around to create a rising spiral shape that can be read from both inside and outside. Gravi-responding hypocotyls or coleoptiles can likewise show enormous variations in trajectory back to the vertical. Friction with the table top forces the egg to rise up in a series of little jerks, and this shifts the axis of symmetry somewhat towards the vertical. Its harbour elevation tilts out at approximately 8 degrees from the vertical; the elevation to the Adriatic at twice that incline. We will control the horizontal; we will control the vertical. From the horizontal line that crossed the vertical, the line curved around and met the bottom end of the vertical. When it comes to the comments feature, remember that I control the horizontal and the vertical. The concrete curves seem to organize the circulation routes, the horizontal as well as the vertical. If the signal is slightly mistuned, the line is a bit buckled and rotated against the vertical. The original photo the designer found and cropped on the vertical at the far right just didn't have the resolution for the job. Simeon shoots with a recurve bow in which the ends curve up to the vertical whereas a long bow is D-shaped. 2An upright structure. 垂直物；竖杆 we remodeled the opening with a simple lintel and unadorned verticals 我们用一个简易的楣和几根未装饰的竖杆改建了洞口。 Example sentencesExamples Cleveland Bays are natural jumpers, and they excel at verticals. The city's numerous verticals depict a rich trading past and its journey into the 21st century. I like to build verticals (multiple vintages) of wines and we need enough to both sell and age. Originally, this elongated oval, itself perfectly aligned with the vertical of the colonnette, would have been cut precisely in half by the diagonal of the spear. The emphatic verticals of sheet metal piling mark out the eastern and northern peripheries of the car park. It is broadly composed around two matching verticals that suggest abstract maypoles. And a block down the road is the Jeppe Street Post Office, an impressive building in light grey granite with tall attractive verticals. Two intense verticals divide the format vertically, on the right hand side of which is more incised carpet, left a creamy hue. One by one they trotted and cantered over little crossbars and verticals and then filed out into the smaller grass ring that adjourned the hunt field. The whiteness of the paint on the wooden verticals had the effect of dispersing the mass of the structures. They can be disturbing unless supported by verticals or opposing diagonals. The horizon is low, the masts and hulks of the ships making a series of horizontals and verticals receding far into the distance. A Paul Nash-like landscape of stark black verticals against a black ground was created. 3The distance between the highest and lowest points of a ski area. （滑雪场）最高点与最低点的距离，垂直高度差 the resort claims a vertical of 2,100 meters 那个旅游胜地称其滑雪场垂直高度差有2，100米。 Example sentencesExamples Without the verticals of Vail or Park City, they could never develop into anything more than regional, half-year ski destinations. 4 short for vertical tasting Origin Mid 16th century (in the sense ‘directly overhead’): from French, or from late Latin verticalis, from vertex (see vertex).
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