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Vertical   /vˈərtɪkəl/   Listen
Vertical

adjective
1.
At right angles to the plane of the horizon or a base line.  Synonym: perpendicular.  "The monument consists of two vertical pillars supporting a horizontal slab" , "Measure the perpendicular height"  Antonyms: horizontal, inclined.
2.
Relating to or involving all stages of a business from production to distribution.
3.
Upright in position or posture.  Synonyms: erect, upright.  "Erect flower stalks" , "For a dog, an erect tail indicates aggression" , "A column still vertical amid the ruins" , "He sat bolt upright"  Antonym: unerect.
4.
Of or relating to different levels in a hierarchy (as levels of social class or income group).
noun
1.
Something that is oriented vertically.
2.
A vertical structural member as a post or stake.  Synonym: upright.



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"Vertical" Quotes from Famous Books



... on the grandstand, the yeomanry and spectators of better degree, and the promiscuous multitude began to sway expectantly and over the hill came the knights, single file, gorgeous in velvets and in caps, with waving plumes and with polished spears, vertical, resting on the right stirrup foot and gleaming in ...
— A Knight of the Cumberland • John Fox Jr.
... with his back to the light, and kept his eye closed. A sheet of paper on which two strong black lines had been drawn, the one horizontal, the other vertical, was placed before him, at the distance of about three feet. He was now allowed to open the eye, and after attentive examination he called the lines by their right denominations. When I asked him to point out with his finger ...
— The Mind of the Child, Part II • W. Preyer
... The Ardennes, in short—and this is their scenic weakness—never attain to the proper mountain spirit. There is a further point, however, in which they also recall Derbyshire, but in which they are far preeminent. This is the vast agglomeration of caves and vertical potholes—like those in Craven, but here called etonnoirs—that riddle the rolling wolds in all directions. Chief among these is the mammoth cave of Han, the mere perambulation of which is said to occupy more than two hours. I have never penetrated myself into its sombre ...
— Beautiful Europe - Belgium • Joseph E. Morris
... wing is immovably suspended in a near vertical position over a large bell white corolla, while I feast from a platter with a scarlet border and ...
— Chit-Chat; Nirvana; The Searchlight • Mathew Joseph Holt
... comprehensive method, a method that will look at facts from more than one point of view. A truly historical method will look at facts from above, as well as from each side, and so the deductive process may be popularly described as vertical. The historical method falsely so called errs in confining its view to what can be seen immediately around it, and so its process is exclusively horizontal. Deduction begins vertically, and makes that which comes from above to be ...
— A Tour of the Missions - Observations and Conclusions • Augustus Hopkins Strong


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