All 7 Uses of
vertical
in
Atlas Shrugged
- 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 bf 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)
Definition:
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.)
(When you are standing, you could be thought of as vertical. When lying down, you could be thought of as horizontal.)