Definitions for horizontal

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horizontal hor·i·zon·tal

Spelling: [hawr-uh-zon-tl, hor-]

IPA: /ˌhɔr əˈzɒn tl, ˌhɒr-/

Horizontal is a 10 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 22 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 23 points.

You can make 465 anagrams from letters in horizontal (ahilnoortz).

Definitions for horizontal

adjective

1. at right angles to the vertical; parallel to level ground.
2. flat or level:
3. being in a prone or supine position; recumbent:
4. near, on, or parallel to the horizon.
5. of or relating to the horizon.
6. measured or contained in a plane parallel to the horizon:
7. (of material on a printed page, pieces on a game board, etc.) extending across, from the left to the right of the viewer.
8. of or relating to a position or individual of similar status:
9. Economics. of or relating to companies, affiliates, divisions, etc., that perform the same or similar functions or produce the same or similar products:

noun

1. anything horizontal, as a plane, direction, or object.

Origin of horizontal

1545-55; Latin horizont- (stem of horizōn) horizon + -al¹

Examples for horizontal

Tree of slow growth, with horizontal, yellowish-barked branches.

Then come the struts, the main pieces which join the horizontal beams.

These fringe bands were also strung in horizontal form across a cotton-knit silk dress, as if suspended on a weaving loom.

Then he remounted and gripped the pipe in the middle of its horizontal section.

You see, the spine is a row of vertebrae that was designed to be horizontal.

Much of the love scene is composed of medium shots, with the camera focused on the two horizontal bodies writhing on a bed.

Like countless other boys in Massapequa, he had a crew cut and wore Keds sneakers and T-shirts with horizontal stripes.

And bit by bit—how we don't know—the horizontal zigzag is accomplished.

This consists of two sections, one horizontal, the other vertical.

Name some aspect of the horizontal polka and it has probably been discussed endlessly among human beings with two X chromosomes.