different between horizontal vs longitude

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

Etymology

From Middle English, borrowed from Old French longitude, from Latin longit?d? (“length, a measured length”), from longus (“long”).

Pronunciation

• (UK, General Australian, General New Zealand) IPA^(key): /?l?n??tju?d/, /?l?n(d)??tju?d/ (More traditional) IPA^(key): /-t?u?d/ (Yod Coalescence)
• (US) IPA^(key): /?l?nd???tud/

Noun

longitude (countable and uncountable, plural longitudes)

1. (geography) Angular distance measured west or east of the prime meridian.
2. (geography, astronomy) Any imaginary line perpendicular to the equator and part of a great circle passing through the North Pole and South Pole.
3. (archaic) Length.

Synonyms

• (half of a great circle): meridian

Derived terms

• longitudinal

Translations

See also

• latitude
• equator
• prime meridian

French

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin longit?d? (“length, a measured length”), from longus (“long”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /l??.?i.tyd/

Noun

longitude f (plural longitudes)

1. (geography, astronomy) longitude

Related terms

• long

Further reading

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

Portuguese

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin longit?d? (“length, a measured length”).

Pronunciation

• (Portugal) IPA^(key): /lõ.?i.?tu.ð?/
• Hyphenation: lon?gi?tu?de
• Rhymes: -ud?i

Noun

longitude f (plural longitudes)

1. (geography) Angular distance measured west or east of the Greenwich Meridian.
2. (geography, astronomy) An imaginary line perpendicular to the equator, passing through the North Pole and South Pole.

Synonyms

• meridiano

Related terms

• longo