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Horizontal vs Atilt - What's the difference?

horizontal | atilt |

As adjectives the difference between horizontal and atilt

is that horizontal is perpendicular to the vertical; parallel to the plane of the horizon; level, flat while atilt is at an angle from the vertical or horizontal.

As a noun horizontal

is a horizontal component of a structure.

As an adverb atilt is

as if tilting; like a knight on horseback.

horizontal

English

Adjective

(en adjective)
  • perpendicular to the vertical; parallel to the plane of the horizon; level, flat.
  • (marketing) Relating to horizontal markets.
  • (archaic) Pertaining to the horizon.
  • * 1667': As when the Sun new ris'n / Looks through the '''Horizontal misty Air — John Milton, ''Paradise Lost , Book 1, ll. 594-5

    • Antonyms

    * vertical

    Derived terms

    * horizontally

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • A horizontal component of a structure.
  • (geology) horizon

    • atilt

    English

    Alternative forms

    * a-tilt

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • at an angle from the vertical or horizontal

    • Adverb

    (en adverb)
  • as if tilting; like a knight on horseback.
  • at an angle from the vertical or horizontal

    • Anagrams

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