Vertical
['vɜːtɪk(ə)l] or ['vɝtɪkl]
解释:
(noun.) something that is oriented vertically.
(adj.) of or relating to different levels in a hierarchy (as levels of social class or income group); 'vertical social mobility' .
(adj.) at right angles to the plane of the horizon or a base line; 'a vertical camera angle'; 'the monument consists of two vertical pillars supporting a horizontal slab'; 'measure the perpendicular height' .
(adj.) relating to or involving all stages of a business from production to distribution .
编辑:迈尔斯--From WordNet
解释:
(a.) Of or pertaining to the vertex; situated at the vertex, or highest point; directly overhead, or in the zenith; perpendicularly above one.
(a.) Perpendicular to the plane of the horizon; upright; plumb; as, a vertical line.
(n.) Vertical position; zenith.
(n.) A vertical line, plane, or circle.
校对:贾斯廷
同义词及近义词：
a. Perpendicular (to the horizon), upright, plumb.
校对:梅雷迪思
同义词及反义词：
SYN:Perpendicular, upright
ANT:Inclined, sloped, scarped
校对:琳达
例句:
- The station at Berlin comprised five boilers, and six vertical steam-engines driving by belts twelve Edison dynamos, each of about fifty-five horse-power capacity. 弗兰克·刘易斯·戴尔. 爱迪生的生平和发明.
- The lever and the pulley, lathe s, picks, saws, hammers, bronze operating-lances, sundials, water-clocks, the gnomon (a vertical pillar for determining the sun's altitude) were in use. 李贝. 西洋科学史.
- Her engines are of the twin screw, vertical triple expansion direct acting inverted cylinder type. Edward W. Byrn. 十九世纪发明进展.
- If you stare at a checkerboard you can see it as black on red, or red on black, as series of horizontal, vertical or diagonal steps which recede or protrude. 沃尔特·李普曼. 政治序论.
- The true definition of the bicycle is a two-wheeled vehicle, with one wheel in front and the other in the rear, and both in the same vertical plane. Edward W. Byrn. 十九世纪发明进展.
- The two ends of the wire were connected with an electro-magnet fastened to a vertical wooden frame. 鲁伯特·萨金特·荷兰. 历史性发明.
- About every fifteenth address plate in a drawer was equipped with a vertical, subdividing tab--numerical, alphabetical or geographical as the case might require. 佚名. 神奇的知识之书.
- The new operating room contained sixteen vertical engines with a capacity each of over 5,000 horse-power. 佚名. 神奇的知识之书.
- The roadway hangs from these cables, suspended by 624 vertical rods. 威廉·亨利·杜利特. 世纪发明.
- Blowing engines are of horizontal compound and horizontal vertical compound types, capable of blowing a pressure of 25 pounds of air. 佚名. 神奇的知识之书.
- One of the latest forms of such a collector has for its essential principle the vertical or rotatory air current, which it is claimed moves and precipitates the finest particles. 威廉·亨利·杜利特. 世纪发明.
- The positive or nickel plate (Fig. 6) is seen to consist of two rows of round rods or pencils, thirty in number, held in a vertical position by a steel support-frame. 弗兰克·刘易斯·戴尔. 爱迪生的生平和发明.
- The engine here employed was the Catch Me Who Can, and had a vertical cylinder and piston, without the toothed gear wheels shown in the illustration. Edward W. Byrn. 十九世纪发明进展.
- A vertical shaft D is rotated constantly by a band on pulley _d_. Edward W. Byrn. 十九世纪发明进展.
- The great lantern, Fig. 45, is carried by a vertical shaft, which terminates at its lower end in a hollow drum, which latter floats in a bath of mercury. Edward W. Byrn. 十九世纪发明进展.
- The verticals of these letters were originally five holes high. 弗兰克·刘易斯·戴尔. 爱迪生的生平和发明.
- The verticals of the letters were perforated only four holes high, and the four rollers were arranged in pairs, one pair being slightly in advance of the other. 弗兰克·刘易斯·戴尔. 爱迪生的生平和发明.
手打:撒迪厄斯