Crossword-Solution: PERPENDICULAR
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| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Perpendicular | a. | Exactly upright or vertical; pointing to the zenith; at right angles to the plane of the horizon; extending in a right line from any point toward the center of the earth. |
| Perpendicular | a. | At right angles to a given line or surface; as, the line ad is perpendicular to the line bc. |
| Perpendicular | n. | A line at right angles to the plane of the horizon; a vertical line or direction. |
| Perpendicular | n. | A line or plane falling at right angles on another line or surface, or making equal angles with it on each side. |
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One who, or that which, eats.
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Sentences with PERPENDICULAR (5)
Springing to her accustomed perpendicular like a bowed sapling, and satisfying herself that nobody was in sight, she seated herself in the manner demanded by the saddle, though hardly expected of the woman, and trotted off in the direction of Tewnell Mill.
The canyon walls, for the first two hundred feet below the surface, were perpendicular cliffs, striped with even-running strata of rock.
Naked and unarmed, as I was, my end would have been both speedy and horrible at the hands of these cruel creatures had I had time to put my resolve into execution, but at the moment of the shriek each member of the herd turned in the direction from which the sound seemed to come, and at the same instant every particular snake-like hair upon their heads rose stiffly perpendicular as if each had been a sentient organism looking or listening for the source or meaning of the wail.
Along the foot of the perpendicular cliff the creature moved, sniffing at the invisible spoor, and now and then emitting the low moan of the hunting banth.
Early the next morning they were climbing the almost perpendicular crags which formed the last, but greatest, natural barrier between them and their destination.
Quotes with PERPENDICULAR (3)
After a long while he sat upright with great effort, exhaled a sigh and reached for a clean sheet of lined paper, smoothing it out on the desk. He unscrewed the lid of his fountain pen, laid it perpendicular to his paper, and began to write. Often he compared his writing to white water. He had only to leap in to be dragged away on its rapids, thrown this way and that with his own will rendered impotent. While writing he found the words came from the muscles in his hands, the …
Dancing is a perpendicular expression of a horizontal desire.
When, shortly afterward, I stopped at the top of the hill and saw the town beneath me, my feeling of happiness was so ecstatic that I didn’t know how I would be able to make it home, sit there and write, eat, or sleep. But the world is constructed in such a way that it meets you halfway in moments precisely like these, your inner joy seeks an outer counterpart and finds it, it always does, even in the bleakest regions of the world, for nothing is as relative as beauty. Had th…
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Appears in: NYT.
Used 1 time in crossword archives (1982).