different between radial vs horizontal

English

Etymology

From Medieval Latin radi?lis (“radial”), from Latin radius.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /??e?di.?l/

Adjective

radial (comparative more radial, superlative most radial)

1. Arranged like rays that radiate from, or converge to a common centre.
2. Moving along a radius.
3. (anatomy) Of, or relating to the radius bone.
4. (entomology) Of, or relating to the radius (vein), and/or the wing areas next to it.
5. (botany) Developing uniformly on all sides.

Derived terms

Translations

Noun

radial (plural radials)

1. A radial tire / radial tyre.

Translations

Anagrams

• Alarid, Ardila

German

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?a?di?a?l/

Adjective

radial (not comparable)

1. radial

Declension

Adverb

radial

1. radially

Romanian

Etymology

From French radial

Adjective

radial m or n (feminine singular radial?, masculine plural radiali, feminine and neuter plural radiale)

1. radial

Declension

Spanish

Etymology

radio +? -al

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ra?djal/, [ra?ð?jal]

Adjective

radial (plural radiales)

1. radial
2. (relational) radio

Derived terms

Related terms

• radio

Noun

radial m (plural radiales)

1. (geometry) radian

Further reading

• “radial” in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014.

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