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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)

  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

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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)

  1. 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.
  2. 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.
  3. (archaic) Square; even; balanced; equal; exact.
    • 1644, James Howell, letter to Sir Ed. Sa. Knight
      a quadrat, solid, wise man
  4. (archaic) Squared; suited; correspondent.
    • 1672 Gideon Harvey, Morbus Anglicus, Or, The Anatomy of Consumptions
      a generical description quadrate to both

Related terms

  • quadratic
  • quadration
  • quadrature

Noun

quadrate (plural quadrates)

  1. (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.
  2. (astrology) An aspect of the heavenly bodies in which they are distant from each other 90°, or the quarter of a circle; quartile.
  3. (anatomy) The quadrate bone.

Verb

quadrate (third-person singular simple present quadrates, present participle quadrating, simple past and past participle quadrated)

  1. (archaic, transitive) To adjust (a gun) on its carriage.
  2. (archaic, transitive) To train (a gun) for horizontal firing.
  3. (archaic, transitive, intransitive) To square.
    quadrating the circle
  4. (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

  1. 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)

  1. 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

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