different between horizontal vs quadrate
horizontal
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)
- perpendicular to the vertical; parallel to the plane of the horizon; level, flat
- (marketing) relating to horizontal markets
- (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
- (wine tasting) involving wines of the same vintages but from different wineries
- (music) Of an interval: having the two notes sound successively.
- Synonyms: linear, melodic
- Antonym: vertical
Antonyms
- vertical
Derived terms
Translations
Noun
horizontal (plural horizontals)
- a horizontal component of a structure
- (geology) horizon
- 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)
- horizontal
Related terms
- horizont
Asturian
Adjective
horizontal (epicene, plural horizontales)
- 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)
- 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)
- horizontal
- Antonym: vertical
Derived terms
- horizontalmente
Related terms
- horizonte
German
Pronunciation
- Rhymes: -a?l
Adjective
horizontal (not comparable)
- 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)
- 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)
- horizontal
- Antonym: vertical
- 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
horizontal From the web:
- what horizontal mean
- what horizontal and vertical integration
- what horizontal integration
- what horizontal gene transfer
- what horizontal distance will it travel
- what horizontal analysis
- what horizontal distance is traveled by this package
- what horizontal datum is google earth
quadrate
English
Alternative forms
- quadrat (obsolete)
Etymology
From Middle English quadrat, from Old French quadrat (“a square”), from Latin quadr?tus (“square”), past participle of quadr? (“to make four-cornered, square, put in order, intransitive be square”), from quadra (“a square”), later quadrus (“square”), from quattuor (“four”).
Pronunciation
- (adjective, noun) IPA(key): /?kw?d??t/, /?kw?d?e?t/
- (verb) IPA(key): /kw?d??e?t/
- Rhymes: -e?t
Adjective
quadrate (comparative more quadrate, superlative most quadrate)
- Having four equal sides, the opposite sides parallel, and four right angles; square.
- 1563, John Foxe, Acts and Monuments
- Figures, some round, some triangle, some quadrate.
- 1563, John Foxe, Acts and Monuments
- Produced by multiplying a number by itself; square.
- 1646-72, Sir Thomas Browne, Pseudodoxia Epidemica, book 4, ch. 12:
- The number of Ten hath been as highly extolled, as containing even, odd, long, plain, quadrate and cubical numbers.
- 1646-72, Sir Thomas Browne, Pseudodoxia Epidemica, book 4, ch. 12:
- (archaic) Square; even; balanced; equal; exact.
- 1644, James Howell, letter to Sir Ed. Sa. Knight
- a quadrat, solid, wise man
- 1644, James Howell, letter to Sir Ed. Sa. Knight
- (archaic) Squared; suited; correspondent.
- 1672 Gideon Harvey, Morbus Anglicus, Or, The Anatomy of Consumptions
- a generical description quadrate to both
- 1672 Gideon Harvey, Morbus Anglicus, Or, The Anatomy of Consumptions
Related terms
- quadratic
- quadration
- quadrature
Noun
quadrate (plural quadrates)
- (geometry) A plane surface with four equal sides and four right angles; a square; hence, figuratively, anything having the outline of a square.
- 1667, John Milton, Paradise Lost, Book VI:
- At which command, the powers militant
- That stood for heaven, in mighty quadrate joined.
- 1667, John Milton, Paradise Lost, Book VI:
- (astrology) An aspect of the heavenly bodies in which they are distant from each other 90°, or the quarter of a circle; quartile.
- (anatomy) The quadrate bone.
Verb
quadrate (third-person singular simple present quadrates, present participle quadrating, simple past and past participle quadrated)
- (archaic, transitive) To adjust (a gun) on its carriage.
- (archaic, transitive) To train (a gun) for horizontal firing.
- (archaic, transitive, intransitive) To square.
- quadrating the circle
- (archaic, transitive) To square; to agree; to suit; to correspond (with).
- not quadrating with American ideas of right, justice and reason
- 1790, Edmund Burke, Reflections on the Revolution in France
- The objections of these speculatists, if its forces do not quadrate with their theories, are as valid against such an old and beneficent government as against the most violent tyranny or the greenest usurpation.
- In short I am resolved, from this instance, never to give way to the weakness of human nature more, nor to think anything virtue which doth not exactly quadrate with the unerring rule of right.
Further reading
- quadrate in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
- quadrate in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.
- quadrate at OneLook Dictionary Search
Anagrams
- arquated
Italian
Adjective
quadrate
- feminine plural of quadrato
Latin
Etymology
From quadr? (“make square”), from quadrus (“square, four-sided”), from quattuor (“four”).
Pronunciation
- (Classical) IPA(key): /k?a?dra?.te?/, [k?ä?d??ä?t?e?]
- (Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /kwa?dra.te/, [kw??d????t??]
Adverb
quadr?t? (not comparable)
- fourfold, four times
Related terms
References
- quadrate in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- quadrate in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré Latin-Français, Hachette
quadrate From the web:
- quadrate meaning
- quadrat method
- what is quadrate lobe of liver
- quadrat sampling
- what are quadrats used for
- what are quadrate bones
- what does quadrant mean in anatomy
- what is quadrate muscle
you may also like
- horizontal vs quadrate
- train vs quadrate
- carriage vs quadrate
- terms vs quadrated
- quadrates vs quadrated
- terms vs quadratojugal
- bird vs quadratojugal
- amphibian vs quadratojugal
- reptile vs quadratojugal
- jaw vs quadratojugal
- jugal vs quadratojugal
- trigonometrist vs trigonometry
- trigon vs trigone
- trigon vs triton
- trogon vs trigon
- trigon vs trion
- tigon vs trigon
- lyre vs trigon
- trigon vs monogon
- trigon vs traingle