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VERTICALLY

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does vertically mean? 

VERTICALLY (adverb)
  The adverb VERTICALLY has 1 sense:

1. in a vertical directionplay

  Familiarity information: VERTICALLY used as an adverb is very rare.


 Dictionary entry details 


VERTICALLY (adverb)


Sense 1

Meaning:

In a vertical direction

Context example:

a gallery quite often is added to make use of space vertically as well as horizontally

Pertainym:

vertical (at right angles to the plane of the horizon or a base line)


 Context examples 


The scientists placed worms in vertically oriented tubes filled with a gel-like substance.

(Magnetic Field Sensor Unearthed in Worms, NIH)

Transmitted horizontally through the lactating mammary gland and vertically through the germline.

(Mouse Mammary Tumor Virus, NCI Thesaurus)

The most superficial muscle extending vertically downward along the inner thigh which adducts the thigh, rotates the leg medially and flexes the knee.

(Gracilis, NCI Thesaurus)

It also infects rats and newborn hamsters and is apparently transmitted vertically to embryos in utero and through mother's milk.

(Moloney Leukemia Virus, NCI Thesaurus)

According to DARPA, the XS-1 will be about the size of a business jet and take off vertically, propelled not by external boosters but by “self contained cryogenic propellants.”

(Hypersonic Space Plane May Soon Be a Reality, VOA)



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