All 4 Uses of
vertical
in
City of Bones
- He drew out a rectangular object hidden among the clothes: a wooden-framed photograph with a long vertical crack along the glass.†
Chpt 8 *vertical = straight up and down
- Clary saw, with a jolt of surprise, that they had vertical slit pupils, like a cat's.†
Chpt 12
- His feline eyes, slit by their single vertical pupils like fissures in a green-gold wall, were serious for once.†
Chpt 13
- I didn't!" he shouted gleefully, and did something that made the bike rise almost vertically into the air.†
Chpt 15vertically = 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.)