Prostrate vs Horizontal - What's the difference?
prostrate | horizontal |
Lying flat, facedown.
* Milton
* 1945 , :
Emotionally devastated.
Physically incapacitated from environmental exposure or debilitating disease.
(botany) Trailing on the ground; procumbent.
(senseid)(Often reflexive) To lie flat or facedown.
To throw oneself down in submission (also figuratively).
To cause to lie down, to flatten; (figuratively) to overcome or overpower.
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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
As adjectives the difference between prostrate and horizontal
is that prostrate is lying flat, facedown while horizontal is perpendicular to the vertical; parallel to the plane of the horizon; level, flat.As a verb prostrate
is (senseid)(often reflexive) to lie flat or facedown.As a noun horizontal is
a horizontal component of a structure.prostrate
English
Adjective
(-)- Prostrate fall / Before him reverent, and there confess / Humbly our faults.
- Finally almost the whole world was combined against the evil-doers, who are now prostrate before us.
- I told him you was prostrate with grief.'' — Mammy to Scarlett, ''Gone With the Wind .
- He was prostrate from the extreme heat.