All 7 Uses
vertical
in
Atlas Shrugged
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- They were clinging to the side of a vertical cliff, with the earth rolling down, dropping away, and giant tiers of twisted boulders streaming up and shutting out the sun, leaving them to speed through a bluish twilight, with no sight of soil or sky.†
Chpt 1.8vertical = straight up and down
- But the track cut through at times and the mountains parted, flaring open like two wings at the tip of the rail-one wing green, made of vertical needles, with whole pines serving as the pile of a solid carpet-the other reddish-brown, made of naked rock.†
Chpt 1.8
- The empty structures were vertical rubble; they had been eaten, not by time, but by men: boards torn out at random, missing patches of roofs, holes left in gutted cellars.†
Chpt 1.9 *
- He was looking at a long wall of vertical strips, which was the battery of coke ovens.†
Chpt 2.3
- Raising his face to the cold air, he saw the peaceful darkness of the sky and a single star above a smokestack with the vertical lettering: Rearden Steel.†
Chpt 2.3
- Through the open door of the relay room, she saw the tower men standing grimly idle-the men whose jobs had never permitted a moment's relaxation-standing by the long rows that looked like vertical copper pleats, like shelves of books and as much of a monument to human intelligence.†
Chpt 3.5
- Beyond the square, a few dots of light, scattered Vertically above the twenty fifth-floor limit of the city, suggested a distant, rising form, which was the Taggart Building.†
Chpt 3.8vertically = with an orientation that is straight up and down (90 degrees relative to the floor)
Definitions:
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(1)
(vertical) oriented straight up and down
(When you are standing, you could be thought of as vertical. When lying down, you could be thought of as horizontal.) - (2) (meaning too rare to warrant focus)