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Perpendicular vs Foredraft - What's the difference?

perpendicular | foredraft |

As an adjective perpendicular

is (architecture) of a style of english gothic architecture from the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries.

As a noun foredraft is

land leading from a dwelling to a road or field.

perpendicular

English

(wikipedia perpendicular)

Adjective

(en adjective)
  • (geometry) At or forming a right angle (to).
  • * {{quote-magazine, date=2012-03
    • , author=(Henry Petroski) , title=Opening Doors , volume=100, issue=2, page=112-3 , magazine= 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 .

    Synonyms

    * evendown * normal * orthogonal

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • (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.

    • foredraft

    English

    Alternative forms

    * (l)

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • Land leading from a dwelling to a road or field.
    • Farm containing messuage, barns, stable, buildings, gardens, foldyard and rickyard (1.1.39), the lane or Foredraft … — Shropshire Archives, 1835
    He returned at last, and pointing to a tree that stood over on the far side of the foredraft which led up to the farm,…'' — ''A Modern Antaeus , 1901
    We would have scurried across the farmyard, scattering the flustered fowl as we went, then down the foredraft to wait by the gate…'' — Richard P. Mayer, ''The Young Gongoozler , 2010
  • A current of air that flows forward
    • If the connections to the two plenums are air-tite, then there will be a back draft in one stream and a foredraft … — HVAC-Talk, 2006
    Not phased by trucks or light winds. You drift into their foredraft and then back out of their backdraft as one solid unit … — TundraTalk, Towing Report, 2007
    The freight, after passing through Brick Station, would switch onto a trunk line and skirt the yards on its way north to Chicago. He listened intently, and picked up the foredraft of its cattle cars.'' — C.K. Robin, ''Judas Goat: A Fable
  • (nautical) The draft at the fore perpendicular. Also "fore draft".
    • ... wherein said foredraft part includes at least a moorage hull part, — Floating offshore structure : U.S. Patent Number 4,519,728, 1985