horizontallyadv.
/hɒrɪˈzɒntəli/ In a horizontal position or direction.
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the world > space > relative position > horizontal position or condition > [adverb]
endlong1393
grovelling1562
flatling1605
levelly1610
forthright1640
horizontally1646
horizontically1692
society > leisure > the arts > music > musical sound > melody or succession of sounds > [adverb]
melodially1818
melodically1839
horizontally1934
society > society and the community > customs, values, and civilization > [adverb] > in respect of specific social or cultural aspects
horizontally1958
1646 Sir T. Browne Pseudodoxia Epidemica 259 An obelisk erected, & golden figures placed horizontally about it. View more context for this quotation
1715 J. T. Desaguliers tr. N. Gauger Fires Improv'd 80 The Wind..blows horizontally.
1776 W. Withering Brit. Plants (1796) II. 143 Panicle spreading horizontally.
1871 J. Tyndall Fragm. Sci. (1879) I. iv. 96 A glass tube..supported horizontally on two stands.
1934 Hound & Horn 7 596 He [sc. Stravinsky] is tired of..exploiting the folk tune, horizontally, vertically, atonally, seriously or comically.
1956 M. W. Stearns Story of Jazz (1957) xii. 126 Everybody had an interesting part, for the idea was to move horizontally rather than vertically.
1958 Listener 9 Oct. 547/2 Differences throughout the Arab sector run both vertically and horizontally: between religious sects, social strata, settlers and nomads.
1959 Listener 13 Aug. 245/1 A society so divided vertically as well as horizontally.
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