Crossword clues for vertical
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Vertical \Ver"ti*cal\, a. [Cf. F. vertical. See Vertex.]
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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.
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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.
(Dialing) A line perpendicular to the horizon.
(Conic Sections) A right line drawn on the vertical plane, and passing through the vertex of the cone.
(Surv.) The direction of a plumb line; a line normal to the surface of still water.
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(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.
(Conic Sections) A plane passing through the vertex of a cone, and through its axis.
(Projections) Any plane which passes through a vertical line.
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(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 \Ver"ti*cal\, n.
Vertical position; zenith. [R.]
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(Math.) A vertical line, plane, or circle.
Prime vertical, Prime vertical dial. See under Prime, a.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
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
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
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]
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]
n. something that is oriented vertically
a vertical structural member as a post or stake; "the ball sailed between the uprights" [syn: upright]
Wikipedia
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, 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 was a Soviet Art 1967 film director Stanislav Govorukhin and Boris Durov, sports drama. Directorial debut film Govorukhin.
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.