different between horizontal vs equal

English

Etymology

Borrowed from French horizontal.

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /?h????z?nt?l/
• (US) IPA^(key): /?h?????z??nt?l/

Adjective

horizontal (comparative more horizontal, superlative most horizontal)

1. perpendicular to the vertical; parallel to the plane of the horizon; level, flat

2. (marketing) relating to horizontal markets
3. (archaic) pertaining to the horizon
   • 1667: As when the Sun new ris'n / Looks through the Horizontal misty Air — John Milton, Paradise Lost, Book 1, ll. 594-5
4. (wine tasting) involving wines of the same vintages but from different wineries
5. (music) Of an interval: having the two notes sound successively.

   Synonyms: linear, melodic

   Antonym: vertical

Antonyms

• vertical

Derived terms

Translations

Noun

horizontal (plural horizontals)

1. a horizontal component of a structure
2. (geology) horizon
3. a Tasmanian shrub or small tree whose main trunk tends to lean over and grow horizontally, Anodopetalum biglandulosum

Translations

Anagrams

• notorhizal

Albanian

Etymology

Probably from English horizontal; the -al adjectival suffix is neither native to Albanian, nor was it borrowed from Latin earlier on.

Adjective

horizontal m (feminine horizontale)

1. horizontal

Related terms

• horizont

Asturian

Adjective

horizontal (epicene, plural horizontales)

1. horizontal

   Antonym: vertical

Related terms

• horizonte

French

Alternative forms

• horisontal

Etymology

Derived from Latin horiz?n (“horizon”) + -?lis (suffix forming adjectives from nouns).

Pronunciation

• ^{(mute h)} IPA^(key): /?.?i.z??.tal/
• Homophones: horisontal, horisontale, horisontales, horizontale, horizontales

Adjective

horizontal (feminine singular horizontale, masculine plural horizontaux, feminine plural horizontales)

1. horizontal

   Antonym: vertical

Derived terms

• horizontalement

Related terms

• horizon

Further reading

• “horizontal” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

Galician

Adjective

horizontal m or f (plural horizontais)

1. horizontal

   Antonym: vertical

Derived terms

• horizontalmente

Related terms

• horizonte

German

Pronunciation

• Rhymes: -a?l

Adjective

horizontal (not comparable)

1. horizontal

   Synonyms: waagrecht, waagerecht

   Antonyms: vertikal, senkrecht

Declension

Derived terms

• Horizontale

Further reading

• “horizontal” in Duden online

Portuguese

Adjective

horizontal m or f (plural horizontais, not comparable)

1. horizontal

   Antonym: vertical

Derived terms

• horizontalmente

Related terms

• horizonte

Spanish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): (Spain) /o?i?on?tal/, [o.?i.?õn??t?al]
• IPA^(key): (Latin America) /o?ison?tal/, [o.?i.sõn??t?al]

Adjective

horizontal (plural horizontales)

1. horizontal

   Antonym: vertical

2. landscape (a mode of printing where the horizontal sides are longer than the vertical sides; in smartphones)

   Antonym: vertical

Derived terms

• horizontalmente

Related terms

• horizonte

English

Alternative forms

• æqual (archaic), æquall (archaic)

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin aequ?lis, of unknown origin. Doublet of egal.

Pronunciation

• enPR: ?k'w?l, IPA^(key): /?i?kw?l/
• Rhymes: -i?kw?l

Adjective

equal (not generally comparable, comparative more equal, superlative most equal)

1. (not comparable) The same in all respects.
   • 1705, George Cheyne, The Philosophical Principles of Religion Natural and Revealed

     They who are not disposed to receive them may let them alone or reject them; it is equal to me.

2. (mathematics, not comparable) Exactly identical, having the same value.
3. (obsolete) Fair, impartial.
   • Are not my ways equal?
4. (comparable) Adequate; sufficiently capable or qualified.
   • 1881, Jane Austen, Emma, page 311

     her comprehension was certainly more equal to the covert meaning, the superior intelligence, of those five letters so arranged.

   • much less is it in my power to make my commendations equal to your merits.

   • 1842, Ralph Waldo Emerson, Threnody

     […] whose voice an equal messenger / Conveyed thy meaning mild.

5. (obsolete) Not variable; equable; uniform; even.

   • an equal temper

6. (music) Intended for voices of one kind only, either all male or all female; not mixed.

Usage notes

• In mathematics, this adjective can be used in phrases like "A and B are equal", "A is equal to B", and, less commonly, "A is equal with B".
• The most common comparative use is the ironic expression more equal.

Synonyms

• (the same in all respects): identical
• (the same in all relevant respects): equivalent
• (unvarying): even, fair, uniform, unvarying

Translations

Verb

equal (third-person singular simple present equals, present participle (Commonwealth) equalling or (US) equaling, simple past and past participle (Commonwealth) equalled or (US) equaled)

1. (mathematics, copulative) To be equal to, to have the same value as; to correspond to.

2. (transitive) To make equivalent to; to cause to match.

3. (informal) To have as its consequence.

Synonyms

• (to be equal to): be, is
• (informal, have as its consequence): entail, imply, lead to, mean, result in, spell

Translations

Noun

equal (plural equals)

1. A person or thing of equal status to others.

   • Those who were once his equals envy and defame him.
2. (obsolete) State of being equal; equality.

   (Can we find and add a quotation of Spenser to this entry?)

Synonyms

• (person or thing of equal status to others): peer

Derived terms

Related terms

• equality

Translations

Anagrams

• Quale, quale, queal