Embellishment vs Perpendicular - What's the difference?
embellishment | perpendicular |
An unnecessarily added touch, an ornamental addition, a flourish.
(geometry) At or forming a right angle (to).
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(geometry) A line or plane that is perpendicular to another.
A device such as a plumb line that is used in making or marking a perpendicular line.
As a noun embellishment
is an unnecessarily added touch, an ornamental addition, a flourish.As an adjective perpendicular is
(architecture) of a style of english gothic architecture from the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries.embellishment
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(en noun)- 1811' ''Reflection had given calmness to her judgment, and sobered her own opinion of Willoughby's deserts; -- she wished, therefore, to declare only the simple truth, and lay open such facts as were really due to his character, without any '''embellishment of tenderness to lead the fancy astray.'' Jane Austen, ''Sense and Sensibility , Section 3,
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(wikipedia perpendicular)Adjective
(en adjective)citation, passage=A doorknob of whatever roundish shape is effectively a continuum of levers, with the axis of the latching mechanism—known as the spindle—being the fulcrum about which the turning takes place. Applying a force tangential to the knob is essentially equivalent to applying one perpendicular to a radial line defining the lever.}}
- In most houses, the walls are perpendicular to the floor .