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# vertically

«vertically» in Mova's school dictionary: **In an up-and-down direction, straight up, at a right…** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 1 sentence of Mova's corpora that use it.

### part of speech

adverb (vertically)

### meaning for a pupil

In an up-and-down direction, straight up, at a right angle to the ground. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/V/vertically/#m1)

### sense in the lessons

In maths, vertical lines go up and down; a shape can be flipped vertically or a column read vertically. In graphs, the y-axis runs vertically. In science and everyday life, rockets launch vertically, and things fall vertically under gravity. Phrases: vertically and horizontally, flip vertically, vertically challenged (joking euphemism for short).

### examples

- Write the sum vertically, with the tens under the tens. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/V/vertically/#x1)
- The rocket rose vertically into the sky. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/V/vertically/#x2)
- Fold the paper vertically down the middle. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/V/vertically/#x3)
- The y-axis goes vertically on a graph. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/V/vertically/#x4)
- Rain fell vertically on the still day. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/V/vertically/#x5)
- Hang the poster vertically, not sideways. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/V/vertically/#x6)
- (joking) He's a bit vertically challenged — he can't reach the top shelf. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/V/vertically/#x7)

### note

Opposite: horizontally (side to side). Adjective vertical. In maths, vertically opposite angles are equal. «Vertically challenged» is a jokey euphemism for short.

### In the corpora

- ["Vertically challenged" is a joking way to say short.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/euphemisms/9-age-looks-and-size/13/)

### Trees and pragmatics

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