different between transverse vs vertical

English

Etymology

Late Middle English, borrowed from Latin tr?nsversus (“turned across; going or lying across or crosswise”). Doublet of transversal and transvert.

Pronunciation

• (adjective):
  • (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /t?anz?v??s/, /t???nz?v??s/, /t?ans?v??s/, /t???ns?v??s/
  • (General American) IPA^(key): /t?æns?v?s/, /t?ænz?v?s/, /?t?æns?v?s/, /?t?ænz?v?s/
• (noun):
  • (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /?t?anz.v??s/, /?t???nz.v??s/, /?t?ans.v??s/, /?t???ns.v??s/
  • (General American) IPA^(key): /?t?æns?v?s/, /?t?ænz?v?s/
• (verb):
  • (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /t?anz?v??s/, /t???nz?v??s/, /t?ans?v??s/, /t???ns?v??s/
  • (General American) IPA^(key): /t?æns?v?s/, /t?ænz?v?s/
• Rhymes: -??(?)s

Adjective

transverse (not comparable)

1. Situated or lying across; side to side, relative to some defined "forward" direction; perpendicular or slanted relative to the "forward" direction; identified with movement across areas.

   Antonym: longitudinal

2. (anatomy) Made at right angles to the long axis of the body.
3. (geometry) (of an intersection) Not tangent, so that a nondegenerate angle is formed between the two things intersecting.
4. (obsolete) Not in direct line of descent; collateral.

Derived terms

Related terms

• transversal
• transversion

Translations

Noun

transverse (plural transverses)

1. Anything that is transverse or athwart.
2. (geometry) The longer, or transverse, axis of an ellipse.

Translations

Verb

transverse (third-person singular simple present transverses, present participle transversing, simple past and past participle transversed) (transitive)

1. To lie or run across; to cross.
2. To traverse or thwart.
3. To overturn.
4. To alter or transform.
5. (obsolete) To change from prose into verse, or from verse into prose.

References

• “transverse”, in Lexico, Dictionary.com; Oxford University Press, 2019–present.
• “transverse”, in Merriam–Webster Online Dictionary, (Please provide a date or year).

Latin

Pronunciation

• tr?nsvers?: (Classical) IPA^(key): /trans?u?er.se?/, [t??ä??s??u??rs?e?]
• tr?nsvers?: (Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /trans?ver.se/, [t???nz?v?rs?]
• tr?nsverse: (Classical) IPA^(key): /trans?u?er.se/, [t??ä??s??u??rs??]
• tr?nsverse: (Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /trans?ver.se/, [t???nz?v?rs?]

Etymology 1

From tr?nsversus (“turned across”) +? -? (“-ly”, adverbial suffix).

Alternative forms

• tr?nsvors?

Adverb

tr?nsvers? (comparative tr?nsversius, superlative tr?nsversissim?)

1. Crosswise, transversely, obliquely.

   Synonym: tr?nsversim

Etymology 2

See the etymology of the main entry.

Participle

tr?nsverse

1. vocative masculine singular of tr?nsversus

References

• transverse in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
  • transverto in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• transverse in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré Latin-Français, Hachette

English

Etymology

Borrowed from Middle French vertical, from Late Latin vertic?lis.

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /?v??t?k?l/
• (US) enPR: vûr't?k?l, IPA^(key): /?v?t?k?l/

Adjective

vertical (comparative more vertical, superlative most vertical)

1. Standing, pointing, or moving straight up or down; along the direction of a plumb line; perpendicular to something horizontal.

2. In a two-dimensional Cartesian co-ordinate system, describing the axis y oriented normal (perpendicular, at right angles) to the horizontal axis x.
3. In a three-dimensional co-ordinate system, describing the axis z oriented normal (perpendicular, orthogonal) to the basic plane xy.
4. (marketing) Of or pertaining to vertical markets.
5. (wine tasting) Involving different vintages of the same wine type from the same winery.
6. (music) Of an interval: having the two notes sound simultaneously.

   Synonym: harmonic

   Antonym: horizontal

Antonyms

• horizontal

Derived terms

Related terms

• vortal

Translations

Noun

vertical (plural verticals)

1. A vertex or zenith.
2. A vertical geometrical figure; a perpendicular.
3. An individual slat in a set of vertical blinds.
4. A vertical component of a structure.
5. (marketing) A vertical market.

   We offer specialised accounting software targeting various verticals.

Further reading

• vertical at OneLook Dictionary Search

Asturian

Etymology

From Late Latin vertic?lis.

Pronunciation

Adjective

vertical (epicene, plural verticales)

1. vertical

Antonyms

• horizontal

Catalan

Etymology

From Late Latin vertic?lis.

Pronunciation

• (Balearic) IPA^(key): /v??.ti?kal/
• (Central) IPA^(key): /b?r.ti?kal/
• (Valencian) IPA^(key): /ve?.ti?kal/
• Rhymes: -al

Adjective

vertical (masculine and feminine plural verticals)

1. vertical

Antonyms

• horitzontal

Derived terms

• verticalment

French

Etymology

From Late Latin vertic?lis.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /v??.ti.kal/
• Homophones: verticale, verticales

Adjective

vertical (feminine singular verticale, masculine plural verticaux, feminine plural verticales)

1. vertical

Derived terms

• barre verticale

Further reading

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

Galician

Etymology

From Late Latin vertic?lis.

Pronunciation

Adjective

vertical m or f (plural verticais)

1. vertical

Antonyms

• horizontal

Derived terms

• verticalmente

Ladin

Etymology

From Late Latin vertic?lis.

Adjective

vertical m (feminine singular verticala, masculine plural verticai, feminine plural verticales)

1. vertical

Piedmontese

Etymology

From Late Latin vertic?lis.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /v?rti?kal/

Adjective

vertical

1. vertical

Portuguese

Etymology

From Late Latin vertic?lis.

Pronunciation

• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /ve?t(?)i?kaw/
• (Portugal) IPA^(key): /v??ti?ka?/
• Hyphenation: ver?ti?cal

Adjective

vertical m or f (plural verticais, not comparable)

1. vertical

Antonyms

• horizontal

Derived terms

• verticalmente

Romanian

Etymology

From French vertical.

Adjective

vertical m or n (feminine singular vertical?, masculine plural verticali, feminine and neuter plural verticale)

1. vertical

Declension

Related terms

• verticalitate

Spanish

Etymology

From Late Latin vertic?lis.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /be?ti?kal/, [be?.t?i?kal]
• Hyphenation: ver?ti?cal

Adjective

vertical (plural verticales)

1. vertical
2. portrait (a print orientation where the vertical sides are longer than the horizontal sides.; in smartphones)

Antonyms

• horizontal

Derived terms

• verticalmente