horizontalとは 意味・読み方・使い方

発音

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA: /ˌhɒɹɪˈzɒntəl/
• (General American) IPA: /ˌhoɹəˈzɑntəl/

• (Indic)
  • IPA: /hɵrɪˈzɔɳʈəl/, /hɵrajˈzɔɳʈəl/
  • (proscribed) IPA: /hɵˈrajzəɳʈəl/ (without stress shift from horizon)

形容詞

horizontal (comparative more horizontal, superlative most horizontal)

1. Perpendicular to the vertical; parallel to the plane of the horizon; level, flat.

   horizontal lines

   • 1976, Apollo: A Journal of the Arts:

     […] a pair of pauldrons with the light horizontal bar which in later years developed into the high neckguard of the sixteenth century; numbers of gauntlets, visors of helmets, and other pieces, the handling of which is a sheer joy  […]

2. (marketing) Relating to horizontal markets
3. (archaic) Pertaining to the horizon.
   • 1667, John Milton, “Book I”, in Paradise Lost. […], London: […] [Samuel Simmons], and are to be sold by Peter Parker […]; [a]nd by Robert Boulter […]; [a]nd Matthias Walker, […], →OCLC; republished as Paradise Lost in Ten Books: […], London: Basil Montagu Pickering […], 1873, →OCLC, lines 594-595:

     As when the Sun new ris'n / Looks through the Horizontal misty Air

4. (wine) 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

6. (sex, euphemistic) Relating to sexual intercourse.

   horizontal tango

   • 2020 February 2, Mariella Frostrup, “One is a great guy; the other is good in bed. So who do I choose?”, in The Guardian‎:

     Comparing a man who inspires you intellectually and makes you laugh with a guy who fulfils all your horizontal desires means you’re not comparing like with like.

7. (biology) Being or relating to the transmission of organisms between biotic and/or abiotic members of an ecosystem that are not in a parent-progeny relationship.

   Infectious agents may spread by horizontal transmission.

反意語

• vertical

派生語

名詞

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

アナグラム

• notorhizal