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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
vertical
I.adjective
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
a sheer/vertical cliff (=straight up and down rather than sloping)
▪ Sheer cliffs defend the island.
a vertical dive (=going straight down)
▪ His actions sent the plane into a near vertical dive.
the vertical/horizontal axis
vertical expansion
vertical portal
vertical/horizontal stripes
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ NOUN
axis
▪ They are established by the extension of any of the budget segments backwards to the right-side vertical axis.
▪ Concern for people is illustrated on the vertical axis.
▪ In Fig. 11-7 the wage rates for labour in the two localities are shown on the vertical axis.
▪ People become more important to the leader as his or her rating progresses up the vertical axis.
▪ The vertical axis to the same scale represents elapsed time and the diagonal is drawn in as shown.
▪ A leader with a rating of nine on the vertical axis has maximum concern for people.
▪ The real wage is measured along the vertical axis and labour services are measured along the horizontal axis.
▪ This locates the vertex of both tractrix and catenary and their vertical axis of symmetry can be erected.
bar
▪ Nucleotide matches are given as vertical bars.
▪ Lolling behind a screen of vertical bars, girls in a brothel resemble animals in a cage.
▪ Take great care not to delete any semi-colons, vertical bars etc.
▪ In this case, the vertical bars must still be specified.
▪ Note that the vertical bars must be included as part of the syntax, as they separate parameters within each keyword.
▪ Sidebar a vertical bar positioned usually on the right hand side of the screen.
▪ Instead of plotting each smoothed value as a point, a vertical bar of constant height centred upon the smoothed value is drawn.
▪ The vertical bars show the region of H5 that has been built in the electron density map.
cliff
▪ Behind there are vertical cliffs, a dynamic backdrop dwarfing the harbour to insignificance.
▪ No vertical cliff guards this approach, although about 50 million basalt boulders do.
▪ At the bottom of the Grand Canyon the oldest rocks of all are exposed in a gorge lined with vertical cliffs.
climb
▪ Start from a vertical climb directly downwind.
column
▪ The vertical column is filled with glass beads or randomly orientated short pieces of glass tubing.
▪ Each individual cell grows as a vertical column by inserting new cell wall material uniformly along its length.
▪ Taking a clean sheet of A4 paper out of a drawer, she divided it into three vertical columns.
▪ The vertical columns of Table 10.2 represent the department providing the resources and the horizontal rows the projects and activities using them.
▪ The approximate vertical column has been obtained by dividing the slant column by 20.
▪ Each function embraces three vertical columns, the centre one on its own and the other two shared with the other functions.
distance
▪ The vertical distance shows the amount of the tax.
▪ Figure 18-1 assumes that this capital charge c k is given by the vertical distance.
▪ H must be independent of z, the vertical distance across the layer.
▪ Suppose the government levies a tax, equal to the vertical distance E *.
▪ Social security contributions are now imposed upon the employer equal to the vertical distance D1D2, reducing labour demand to D1.
dive
▪ He then attacked a third which went down in a vertical dive, apparently into the sea.
drop
▪ It can not climb back from a vertical drop since it lacks the body diameter of the rabbit.
line
▪ Opposing lines - the cross A vertical line is highly energetic in its defiance of gravity.
▪ The point or date of the intervention is represented on the graph by a solid vertical line.
▪ At the printing stage the four slightly different images are optically sliced into vertical lines.
▪ There is a vertical line in spirituality that goes from the beast to the angel, and on which we oscillate.
▪ This temperature drop is represented by the vertical line DD' in the phase diagram.
▪ Install joist hangers on each vertical line, lining up the bottom of the hanger with the bottom of the ledger.
▪ Interaction and communication mainly followed vertical lines - and was mainly top downwards.
▪ Align to line up typeset or other graphic material as specified, using a base or vertical line as the reference point.
lines
▪ At the printing stage the four slightly different images are optically sliced into vertical lines.
▪ Interaction and communication mainly followed vertical lines - and was mainly top downwards.
▪ Then, using the basket-weave nozzle, pipe horizontal bands across the vertical lines.
▪ If you would like deeper scallops, extend the length of the two vertical lines to suit.
▪ Pipe horizontal and vertical lines evenly into the frame to form the latticed wired door.
market
▪ Concurrent is also restricting its sales focus to seven vertical markets to maintain its profits.
▪ There will be a development environment and beta versions of the complete environment tailored for vertical markets running up to its release.
plane
▪ A vertical plane remains parallel to the drawing surface and is true to scale.
▪ The steering wheel can be adjusted in both horizontal and vertical planes.
▪ A hydraulic fracture is generally expected to propagate in a vertical plane in a direction perpendicular to the minimum horizontal stress azimuth.
▪ There are still blemishes, subtly dished characters show quite visible stepping in the vertical plane but the overall results look excellent.
▪ It also had a balancing mechanism contrived from two arching tubes at right angles to one another in a vertical plane.
▪ At that point, and that point only the vertical plane will be true to scale in the perspective drawing.
position
▪ Wedges are used under the former to get the vertical position exactly right.
▪ Additionally, when a horizontal-head centrifuge stops. the tubes fall from the horizontal to the vertical position.
▪ The rear gunner was killed by that burst, as his gun swung up to a vertical position as he slumped down.
▪ The sit-ups start with the back off the board, and end before the upper body reaches the vertical position.
▪ Either iron boots or weights are strapped to the ankles and the legs are raised to an almost vertical position.
▪ Press slowly to the vertical position.
▪ The shark can not suddenly twist them to a vertical position to act as brakes.
▪ Pull evenly back to the vertical position, concentrating on the chest muscles all the time.
section
▪ The result is an intarsia chart that needs only be joined for the vertical sections.
▪ Instead, the Cut / Copy Rectangle command used the exact position of the cursor to define the vertical section of text.
▪ Splicing new wood into a vertical section of frame may involve removing glass.
▪ Columns are defined as vertical sections of text separated from other text by tab or tab-align codes.
▪ Elevations and vertical sections are treated similarly.
▪ Rectangles are any vertical sections of text.
▪ Here a vertical section is being sprayed with water prior to recording by photography and drawing.
side
▪ The result was the Yosemite that tourists see today, jammed with awe-inspiring plutons with rounded tops and steep, vertical sides.
▪ As a result the trench was neat, with straight vertical sides and a flat bottom.
stripe
▪ Thin vertical stripes and a drawstring waist make this divided dress ideal for the fuller figure.
▪ Perhaps so, but if this is the case, why should vertical stripes be selected as the particular zebra pattern?
surface
▪ The battens should be screwed loosely into position and then checked to see if they present a flat vertical surface.
▪ Walls: Being vertical surfaces these can present special problems because chemical run-off is sometimes faster than the contact time required.
▪ He also tends to urinate on vertical surfaces so that some liquid is lost to evaporation and absorption.
▪ Verticals are erected from the plan to provide vertical surfaces that are not true to scale.
wall
▪ Soon they were between vertical walls and the river was roaring mud.
▪ Low-head dams are vertical walls along stretches where there is a drop in elevation.
▪ Above, the cleft was barred by vertical walls forming a difficult obstacle, demanding care and attention.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
vertical integration of the industry
vertical stripes
▪ a vertical management arrangement
▪ a fairground ride that ends with a vertical drop of a hundred feet
▪ a terrifying vertical drop of 3,500 feet
▪ In some places the cliff was almost vertical, and much too dangerous to climb.
▪ The vertical line on the graph represents the time taken, and the horizontal line represents the distance travelled.
▪ The wallpaper has vertical pink and white stripes.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ Any plate tectonics model of the Andes must in fact account for the uplift essentially in terms of vertical tectonics.
▪ Print the following vertical four-part sections in the same way.
▪ The concern of this chapter, however, is with vertical inequalities - between social classes, ethnic groups and the sexes.
▪ The nystagmus may have a vertical component.
▪ The rear gunner was killed by that burst, as his gun swung up to a vertical position as he slumped down.
▪ The result was the Yosemite that tourists see today, jammed with awe-inspiring plutons with rounded tops and steep, vertical sides.
II.noun
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ Air photographs, particularly verticals, are likely to show village earthworks which can then be checked on the ground.
▪ But over the 2, 360-foot vertical, they add up to 39 miles of skiing, or 480 acres.
▪ Erect verticals upon the odd numbers, 1, 3, 5, 7, etc.
▪ The same misinterpretation of the gravity vertical is possible in a co-ordinated turn.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Vertical

Vertical \Ver"ti*cal\, a. [Cf. F. vertical. See Vertex.]

  1. Of or pertaining to the vertex; situated at the vertex, or highest point; directly overhead, or in the zenith; perpendicularly above one.

    Charity . . . is the vertical top of all religion.
    --Jer. Taylor.

  2. Perpendicular to the plane of the horizon; upright; plumb; as, a vertical line. Vertical angle (Astron. & Geod.), an angle measured on a vertical circle, called an angle of elevation, or altitude, when reckoned from the horizon upward, and of depression when downward below the horizon. Vertical anthers (Bot.), such anthers as stand erect at the top of the filaments. Vertical circle (Astron.), an azimuth circle. See under Azimuth. Vertical drill, an drill. See under Upright. Vertical fire (Mil.), the fire, as of mortars, at high angles of elevation. Vertical leaves (Bot.), leaves which present their edges to the earth and the sky, and their faces to the horizon, as in the Australian species of Eucalyptus. Vertical limb, a graduated arc attached to an instrument, as a theodolite, for measuring vertical angles. Vertical line.

    1. (Dialing) A line perpendicular to the horizon.

    2. (Conic Sections) A right line drawn on the vertical plane, and passing through the vertex of the cone.

    3. (Surv.) The direction of a plumb line; a line normal to the surface of still water.

    4. (Geom., Drawing, etc.) A line parallel to the sides of a page or sheet, in distinction from a horizontal line parallel to the top or bottom. Vertical plane.

      1. (Conic Sections) A plane passing through the vertex of a cone, and through its axis.

      2. (Projections) Any plane which passes through a vertical line.

      3. (Persp.) The plane passing through the point of sight, and perpendicular to the ground plane, and also to the picture.

        Vertical sash, a sash sliding up and down. Cf. French sash, under 3d Sash.

        Vertical steam engine, a steam engine having the crank shaft vertically above or below a vertical cylinder.

Vertical

Vertical \Ver"ti*cal\, n.

  1. Vertical position; zenith. [R.]

  2. (Math.) A vertical line, plane, or circle.

    Prime vertical, Prime vertical dial. See under Prime, a.

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
vertical

1550s, "of or at the vertex, directly overhead," from Middle French vertical (1540s), from Late Latin verticalis "overhead," from Latin vertex (genitive verticis) "highest point" (see vertex). Meaning "straight up and down" is first recorded 1704. As a noun meaning "the vertical position or line" from 1834. Related: Vertically.

Wiktionary
vertical

a. 1 Along the direction of a plumbline or along a straight line that includes the center of the Earth. 2 In a two dimensional Cartesian co-ordinate system, describing the axis oriented normal (perpendicular, at right angles) to the horizontal axis. 3 (context marketing English) Of or pertaining to vertical markets. n. 1 A vertex or zenith. 2 A vertical geometrical figure; a perpendicular. 3 An individual slat in a set of vertical blinds. 4 A vertical component of a structure. 5 (context marketing English) A vertical market.

WordNet
vertical
  1. adj. at right angles to the plane of the horizon or a base line; "a vertical camera angle"; "the monument consists of two vertical pillars supporting a horizontal slab"; "measure the perpendicular height" [syn: perpendicular] [ant: inclined, horizontal]

  2. upright in position or posture; "an erect stature"; "erect flower stalks"; "for a dog, an erect tail indicates aggression"; "a column still vertical amid the ruins"; "he sat bolt upright" [syn: erect, upright] [ant: unerect]

vertical
  1. n. something that is oriented vertically

  2. a vertical structural member as a post or stake; "the ball sailed between the uprights" [syn: upright]

Wikipedia
Vertical

Vertical may refer to:

  • Vertical direction (geometry), the direction aligned with the direction of the force of gravity, as materialized with a plumb line
  • Vertical (angles), a pair of angles sharing the same vertex and bounded by the same pair of lines but are opposite to each other
  • Vertical (company), a publishing company based in New York City
  • Vertical (music), a musical interval where the two notes sound simultaneously
  • Vertical Inc, a Japanese novel and manga company founded in 2001 by Hiroki Sakai
  • Vertical market (economics), integrated economic activity from production to sales based on related customer needs
  • Vertical (novel), a 2010 novel by Rex Pickett written as a sequel to Sideways
  • Vertical, a 1967 Soviet movie starring Vladimir Vysotsky
  • "Vertical", a type of wine tasting in which different vintages of the same wine type from the same winery are tasted
Vertical (company)

Vertical, Inc., headquartered in New York, United States, is a Japanese novel and manga publishing company founded in 2001 by Hiroki Sakai. In February 2011 the company was bought by Kodansha (46.7%) and Dai Nippon Printing (46.0%). Its offices are on the seventh floor of the 451 Park Avenue South building in Midtown Manhattan.

Vertical (1967 film)

Vertical was a Soviet Art 1967 film director Stanislav Govorukhin and Boris Durov, sports drama. Directorial debut film Govorukhin.

Vertical (novel)

Vertical is a 2010 novel by Rex Pickett and the second novel in the Sideways Trilogy. It is a sequel to the novel Sideways, which was made into a successful 2004 film of the same name.

The novel takes place seven years after the events depicted in Sideways. It contains the same characters as in the earlier novel: Miles, a writer, his friend Jack, a sometime actor, and Miles' mother Phyllis, all wine lovers. Miles is now a successful author, having written a novel called "Shameless" with much the same situations as the real-life Sideways. Like Sideways, "Shameless" has been adapted as a successful movie. Jack, who had been prosperous in Sideways, is now divorced and short of cash. Pickett says that the character Jack is based on his friend Roy Gittens, a film electrician.

The novel recounts a road trip involving the three and a Filipina caretaker, Joy, as they head first to Oregon's Willamette Valley for the International Pinot Noir Celebration, and then to Sheboygan, Wisconsin, where Phyllis is to live with her sister, Alice.

The book was self-published by Pickett. He has said that the book is autobiographical, saying: "The trip didn’t happen with Jack, but everything with my mother was real. I lived that, and Jack is that character now, he’s a guy who’s gone to seed. And I am a guy who’s had success and overimbibed and did some things that I don’t do anymore."

Usage examples of "vertical".

The hill itself was formed of talus, covered with alluvium, all but a small portion of which was subsequently cut away, leaving an almost vertical face 15 or 18 feet high.

Lateral resemblances with other languages - similar sounds applied to analogous significations - were noted and listed only in order to confirm the vertical relation of each to these deeply buried, silted over, almost mute values.

Midway was too small for a giant elephant-cage antenna, so instead they used vertical wires.

The absence of buttresses and the continuous row of arches cause a remarkable freedom from vertical lines in the exterior of the transepts, which is also characteristic of the interior.

For in continuance of the vertical principle of the plant, the pistil and carpel represent the male aspect in the process of spiritual anastomosis, and the mobile, wind- or insect-borne pollen, in continuing the spiral principle, represents the female part.

The first black shape was the sail of a submarine, vertical and unadorned, with a slight angling fillet bringing it to the deck of the cylindrical shape, the sail identical to that of his old Seawolf, but the hull now appearing beneath the sail too small in diameter to belong to a Seawolf-class.

By following down the vertical lines, one can see that their longevity depends largely on the size of family from which they come.

Herbivora, or the vertical cutting one of the flesh-eating mammals, the rodent has a longitudinal motion given by the arrangement of the lower jaw, the condyle of which is not transverse, but parallel with the median line of the skull, and the glenoid fossa, or cavity into which it fits, and which is situated on the under side of the posterior root of the zygoma, is so open in front as to allow of a backwards and forwards sliding action.

The Mig broke hard to the left as the Hellfire left the outboard pylon and accelerated to just under Mach 1 Manesh put the craft in a vertical climb and began dispensing flares and chaff.

Which is bad because, as Manso well knew, you might actually survive a vertical crash.

On the slope the blossoms of the wine-wooded manzanita filled the air with springtime odors, while the leaves, wise with experience, were already beginning their vertical twist against the coming aridity of summer.

And in the foremost row, at the extreme right, sat the driver, who manipulated the multiped conveyance by means of two vertical levers, on either side of his saddle.

Jeff Carroum, maneuvering to get his fixed guns on a Zero coming in ahead, overshot the point, and, when he finally dived, he had to come down on his back hi a more than vertical descent in order to get back on his target.

The hull of my kayak lost its glint and the parasail above me quit catching the light as this vertical terminator moved past and above me.

Logan engaged vertical thrust--and the paravane soared gracefully upward, quickly attained cruising altitude, then tipped westward in a singing rush of blades.