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horizontally

adverbB2+Occasional — familiar, but not everyday · #10,759 of 15,258leans written

Horizontally means flat and level from side to side. Laid horizontally, scroll horizontally, cut it horizontally.

The pairing with vertically is what makes it useful, and the way to keep them apart is that the horizon is horizontal. On a screen, scrolling horizontally is what every design tries to avoid making necessary.

Definitions of horizontally

  1. 1adverbhorizontallyFlat and level from side to side.B2+

    “Cut the cake horizontally into two thin layers.”

horizontally is a manner.

Where it comes from

  1. Latin

    horizōn

  2. Middle French

    horizontal

  3. English

    horizontal

  4. English, today

    horizontally

From horizontal + -ly. horizontal Middle French horizontal, from horizon, horizonte, from Latin horizōn (stem horizont-).

Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA

Practise this word

horizontally in the wild

  • When the roots spread horizontally, they are able to cover a wider area for collecting nutrients.

    Buttress root

  • Many East Asian scripts can be written horizontally or vertically.

    Horizontal and vertical writing in East Asian scripts

  • Crib bridges were made from horizontally placed logs.

    Crib bridge

From Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0. These sentences were written by other people about their own subjects; they are here to show the word at work, not as anybody’s opinion.

Related words

the horizōn family

horizonhorizontal

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