I. adjective
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
a sheer/vertical cliff (= straight up and down rather than sloping )
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Sheer cliffs defend the island.
a vertical dive (= going straight down )
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His actions sent the plane into a near vertical dive.
the vertical/horizontal axis
vertical expansion
vertical portal
vertical/horizontal stripes
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ NOUN
axis
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They are established by the extension of any of the budget segments backwards to the right-side vertical axis .
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Concern for people is illustrated on the vertical axis .
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In Fig. 11-7 the wage rates for labour in the two localities are shown on the vertical axis .
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People become more important to the leader as his or her rating progresses up the vertical axis .
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The vertical axis to the same scale represents elapsed time and the diagonal is drawn in as shown.
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A leader with a rating of nine on the vertical axis has maximum concern for people.
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The real wage is measured along the vertical axis and labour services are measured along the horizontal axis.
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This locates the vertex of both tractrix and catenary and their vertical axis of symmetry can be erected.
bar
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Nucleotide matches are given as vertical bars .
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Lolling behind a screen of vertical bars , girls in a brothel resemble animals in a cage.
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Take great care not to delete any semi-colons, vertical bars etc.
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In this case, the vertical bars must still be specified.
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Note that the vertical bars must be included as part of the syntax, as they separate parameters within each keyword.
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Sidebar a vertical bar positioned usually on the right hand side of the screen.
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Instead of plotting each smoothed value as a point, a vertical bar of constant height centred upon the smoothed value is drawn.
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The vertical bars show the region of H5 that has been built in the electron density map.
cliff
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Behind there are vertical cliffs , a dynamic backdrop dwarfing the harbour to insignificance.
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No vertical cliff guards this approach, although about 50 million basalt boulders do.
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At the bottom of the Grand Canyon the oldest rocks of all are exposed in a gorge lined with vertical cliffs .
climb
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Start from a vertical climb directly downwind.
column
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The vertical column is filled with glass beads or randomly orientated short pieces of glass tubing.
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Each individual cell grows as a vertical column by inserting new cell wall material uniformly along its length.
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Taking a clean sheet of A4 paper out of a drawer, she divided it into three vertical columns .
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The vertical columns of Table 10.2 represent the department providing the resources and the horizontal rows the projects and activities using them.
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The approximate vertical column has been obtained by dividing the slant column by 20.
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Each function embraces three vertical columns , the centre one on its own and the other two shared with the other functions.
distance
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The vertical distance shows the amount of the tax.
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Figure 18-1 assumes that this capital charge c k is given by the vertical distance .
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H must be independent of z, the vertical distance across the layer.
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Suppose the government levies a tax, equal to the vertical distance E *.
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Social security contributions are now imposed upon the employer equal to the vertical distance D1D2, reducing labour demand to D1.
dive
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He then attacked a third which went down in a vertical dive , apparently into the sea.
drop
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It can not climb back from a vertical drop since it lacks the body diameter of the rabbit.
line
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Opposing lines - the cross A vertical line is highly energetic in its defiance of gravity.
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The point or date of the intervention is represented on the graph by a solid vertical line .
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At the printing stage the four slightly different images are optically sliced into vertical lines .
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There is a vertical line in spirituality that goes from the beast to the angel, and on which we oscillate.
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This temperature drop is represented by the vertical line DD' in the phase diagram.
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Install joist hangers on each vertical line , lining up the bottom of the hanger with the bottom of the ledger.
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Interaction and communication mainly followed vertical lines - and was mainly top downwards.
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Align to line up typeset or other graphic material as specified, using a base or vertical line as the reference point.
lines
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At the printing stage the four slightly different images are optically sliced into vertical lines .
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Interaction and communication mainly followed vertical lines - and was mainly top downwards.
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Then, using the basket-weave nozzle, pipe horizontal bands across the vertical lines .
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If you would like deeper scallops, extend the length of the two vertical lines to suit.
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Pipe horizontal and vertical lines evenly into the frame to form the latticed wired door.
market
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Concurrent is also restricting its sales focus to seven vertical markets to maintain its profits.
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There will be a development environment and beta versions of the complete environment tailored for vertical markets running up to its release.
plane
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A vertical plane remains parallel to the drawing surface and is true to scale.
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The steering wheel can be adjusted in both horizontal and vertical planes .
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A hydraulic fracture is generally expected to propagate in a vertical plane in a direction perpendicular to the minimum horizontal stress azimuth.
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There are still blemishes, subtly dished characters show quite visible stepping in the vertical plane but the overall results look excellent.
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It also had a balancing mechanism contrived from two arching tubes at right angles to one another in a vertical plane .
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At that point, and that point only the vertical plane will be true to scale in the perspective drawing.
position
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Wedges are used under the former to get the vertical position exactly right.
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Additionally, when a horizontal-head centrifuge stops. the tubes fall from the horizontal to the vertical position .
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The rear gunner was killed by that burst, as his gun swung up to a vertical position as he slumped down.
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The sit-ups start with the back off the board, and end before the upper body reaches the vertical position .
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Either iron boots or weights are strapped to the ankles and the legs are raised to an almost vertical position .
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Press slowly to the vertical position .
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The shark can not suddenly twist them to a vertical position to act as brakes.
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Pull evenly back to the vertical position , concentrating on the chest muscles all the time.
section
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The result is an intarsia chart that needs only be joined for the vertical sections .
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Instead, the Cut / Copy Rectangle command used the exact position of the cursor to define the vertical section of text.
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Splicing new wood into a vertical section of frame may involve removing glass.
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Columns are defined as vertical sections of text separated from other text by tab or tab-align codes.
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Elevations and vertical sections are treated similarly.
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Rectangles are any vertical sections of text.
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Here a vertical section is being sprayed with water prior to recording by photography and drawing.
side
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The result was the Yosemite that tourists see today, jammed with awe-inspiring plutons with rounded tops and steep, vertical sides .
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As a result the trench was neat, with straight vertical sides and a flat bottom.
stripe
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Thin vertical stripes and a drawstring waist make this divided dress ideal for the fuller figure.
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Perhaps so, but if this is the case, why should vertical stripes be selected as the particular zebra pattern?
surface
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The battens should be screwed loosely into position and then checked to see if they present a flat vertical surface .
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Walls: Being vertical surfaces these can present special problems because chemical run-off is sometimes faster than the contact time required.
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He also tends to urinate on vertical surfaces so that some liquid is lost to evaporation and absorption.
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Verticals are erected from the plan to provide vertical surfaces that are not true to scale.
wall
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Soon they were between vertical walls and the river was roaring mud.
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Low-head dams are vertical walls along stretches where there is a drop in elevation.
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Above, the cleft was barred by vertical walls forming a difficult obstacle, demanding care and attention.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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vertical integration of the industry
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vertical stripes
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a vertical management arrangement
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a fairground ride that ends with a vertical drop of a hundred feet
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a terrifying vertical drop of 3,500 feet
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In some places the cliff was almost vertical , and much too dangerous to climb.
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The vertical line on the graph represents the time taken, and the horizontal line represents the distance travelled.
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The wallpaper has vertical pink and white stripes.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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Any plate tectonics model of the Andes must in fact account for the uplift essentially in terms of vertical tectonics.
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Print the following vertical four-part sections in the same way.
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The concern of this chapter, however, is with vertical inequalities - between social classes, ethnic groups and the sexes.
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The nystagmus may have a vertical component.
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The rear gunner was killed by that burst, as his gun swung up to a vertical position as he slumped down.
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The result was the Yosemite that tourists see today, jammed with awe-inspiring plutons with rounded tops and steep, vertical sides.
II. noun
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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Air photographs, particularly verticals, are likely to show village earthworks which can then be checked on the ground.
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But over the 2, 360-foot vertical , they add up to 39 miles of skiing, or 480 acres.
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Erect verticals upon the odd numbers, 1, 3, 5, 7, etc.
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The same misinterpretation of the gravity vertical is possible in a co-ordinated turn.