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# vertical

«vertical» in Mova's school dictionary: **going straight up and down, at a right angle to the flat…** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples.

### part of speech

adjective (vertical); noun (the vertical, a vertical, verticals)

### meaning for a pupil

1) Vertical means going straight up and down, at a right angle to the flat ground, like a wall or a flagpole. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/V/vertical/#m1)

2) The vertical is a straight up-and-down line or direction. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/V/vertical/#m2)

3) In business (formal), a vertical is one kind of industry or market. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/V/vertical/#m3)

### sense in the lessons

In maths lessons, vertical lines, axes on graphs (the vertical axis is the y-axis), lines of symmetry and right angles; in science, objects falling vertically; in PE, a vertical jump; opposite of horizontal; phrases: vertical line, vertical axis, vertical jump.

### examples

- Draw a vertical line down the middle of the page. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/V/vertical/#x1)
- The flagpole is vertical. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/V/vertical/#x2)
- The y-axis on the graph is vertical. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/V/vertical/#x3)
- The climber went up a vertical cliff. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/V/vertical/#x4)
- The letter T has one vertical line and one horizontal line. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/V/vertical/#x5)
- My vertical jump is 40 centimetres. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/V/vertical/#x6)

### note

Opposite of «horizontal» (flat, like the horizon). Memory trick: vertical goes «v-up». In maths, a vertical and horizontal line meet at a right angle (90°). Adverb: vertically.

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «vertical» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/V/vertical/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.