EGAVE

horizontal

About 21.21 uses per million words.

Meaning

  1. adjective Perpendicular to the vertical; parallel to the plane of the horizon; level, flat.
    horizontal lines
  2. adjective Relating to horizontal markets
  3. adjective Pertaining to the horizon.
  4. adjective Involving wines of the same vintages but from different wineries.
  5. adjective Having the two notes sound successively.
  6. adjective Relating to sexual intercourse.
    horizontal tango
  7. adjective Being or relating to the transmission of organisms between biotic and/or abiotic members of an ecosystem that are not in a parent-progeny relationship.
    Infectious agents may spread by horizontal transmission.
  8. noun A horizontal component of a structure.

Similar words

level flat crosswise swimming naiant cross-sectional transverse transversal landscape across

Often followed by

and line axis plane lines position or distance direction

Word family

horizontalities horizontality horizontally horizontals

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