flat and level; going across and parallel to the ground rather than going up and down:
horizontal and vertical lines * (informal) I was so tired, I just wanted to be horizontal (= lying down).
compareVERTICAL
horizontally adverb:
Cut the cake in half horizontally and spread jam on one half.
Part of speech: noun
1 (the horizontal) [U] a horizontal position:
He shifted his position from the horizontal.
2 [C] a horizontal line or surface
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Sourced from Main Dictionary in Lughet's collection.
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Is horizontal a noun, verb, or something else?
In this entry, horizontal is tagged as adjective.
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