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vertical

adjective as in upright

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Two police assigned to the apartment on a detail were doing a “vertical patrol” up the stairs when the door opened.

They structured themselves not in vertical hierarchies but in networks, each member responding to conditions on the ground.

Abramson is also open, “in theory,” to the idea of interviewing high-profile figures for the new vertical.

There was one very large and easily identifiable piece of debris floating, the vertical stabilizer.

The hybrid aircraft have a vertical takeoff and landing capability.

This takes at first the crude device of a couple of vertical lines attached to the head (see Fig. 4).

It is of the vertical kind, and stands on a shallow square tank, which forms the hot well.

However, in a month, when everything was about five degrees off the vertical, notice began to be taken.

He can not make a record of what he sees as long as the element of horizontal and vertical distance is not clearly in mind.

But the singular fact exists that in the human trunk the valves occur in the horizontal and are absent from the vertical veins.

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On this page you'll find 21 synonyms, antonyms, and words related to vertical, such as: steep, erect, perpendicular, plumb/plum, bolt upright, and cocked.

From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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