I. adjective
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
the vertical/horizontal axis
vertical/horizontal stripes
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ NOUN
axis
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Along the horizontal axis are measured the supply of and demand for labour in the ith market, and respectively.
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Concern for production is illustrated on the horizontal axis .
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The serious aerial photographer will be looking for adjustment through vertical and horizontal axes so that the field of view is precise.
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A leader with a rating of nine on the horizontal axis has a maximum concern for production.
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The horizontal axis has the most frequently preserved part of the bone, namely the distal humerus and proximal femur.
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On the horizontal axis is 0, the ideal variety of consumers.
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However, as the frequency was only doubled in the horizontal axis the benefits were lost if you printed landscape format text!
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As they use much thinner weft than warp strands, more knots are tied on the vertical than the horizontal axis .
bar
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Phosphate positions on the DNA-ribbon backbone are shown as circles, and the bases as horizontal bars .
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Even seemingly innocuous turnstile-exits with interlocking horizontal bars give my sister pause, however.
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Early pictures show no horizontal bars between the uprights on the gallery.
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A short horizontal bar slid up and down the length of the rod.
line
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A horizontal line is calm and secure.
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Above this dark mist would lie another horizontal line , the apparent time track along which the patient returns.
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The snow made horizontal lines of white where it had lodged between the timbers.
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This technique can relate a shape to its dual, eg, a dual of a horizontal line is a vertical line.
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The vanishing points for horizontal lines are located upon the horizon.
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Draw a circle with a diameter equal to the width of your scallop, then draw a horizontal line across the diameter.
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This means that horizontal line one and line two contain only one colour, in this case red.
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But they were also used architecturally, to add interest to the horizontal line of a cornice.
lines
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The snow made horizontal lines of white where it had lodged between the timbers.
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The vanishing points for horizontal lines are located upon the horizon.
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Clones deleted in the analysis are indicated as grey horizontal lines , with the non-deleted clones shown black.
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It defines a television image in 520 horizontal lines of information, updated 60 times each second.
perspective
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The gradient in the horizontal size ratio is referred to as differential horizontal perspective .
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Why should differential vertical perspective cues be more effective than differential horizontal perspective cues in scaling depth and size?
plane
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If the dance takes place on a horizontal plane , then this waggled line will point directly at the food source.
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The nystagmus consists of coarse oscillations that remain in the horizontal plane , even on upward and downward movements of the eyes.
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To simplify the figure, its effect is shown on a projection of the cusp on to a horizontal plane .
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These horizontal planes represent different spatial descriptions as the time-coordinate t increases.
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Their vast horizontal planes of activity could then provide a substitute horizon.
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The sample is fixed in a horizontal plane and can be examined by rotating it through 360 degrees.
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The horizontal plane is eye level.
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In distinctive low-wing flight wings are hardly raised above horizontal plane and depressed far down below body at bottom of downstroke.
position
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Upon the lowering of his arm to the horizontal position in front of him, the squad would aim their weapons.
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We fell back to a horizontal position , kissing passionately.
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Note the horizontal position of the foot for maximum purchase.
stripe
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Bees, thus, actively approach horizontal stripes and avoid vertical ones, suggesting that there are two or more independent channels.
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The pattern of seven dark horizontal stripes on a light background is not fully evident in juvenile specimens.
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The stripey is marked with black and yellow-gold horizontal stripes .
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Behind the head it displays horizontal stripes .
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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horizontal layers of rock
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a horizontal line
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The teacher drew a long, horizontal line across the blackboard.
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The wine bottles should be kept in a horizontal position.
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Time is graphed along the horizontal axis.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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A whale, he says, is a spouting fish with a horizontal tail.
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Because of the peculiar natural history of these hosts, the relative importance of horizontal and vertical transmission differs among parasite species.
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Figures 23.2 and 23.3 show vertical and horizontal sections of fingers generated in this way.
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The horizontal axis has the most frequently preserved part of the bone, namely the distal humerus and proximal femur.
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The snow made horizontal lines of white where it had lodged between the timbers.
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Upon the lowering of his arm to the horizontal position in front of him, the squad would aim their weapons.
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We are concerned with the predominantly horizontal mean flow of a fluid whose mean density varies vertically.
II. noun
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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Could the impact of the meteorite with the dome have deflected its path toward the horizontal ?
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Instead of stitching the bora along the horizontal , he had stitched it along the vertical.
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The plane dropped lower, returning to the horizontal , and the airfield appeared.