flat and level; going across and parallel to the ground rather than going up and down 水平的;与地面平行的;横的 horizontal lines 横线 - (informal)
I was so tired, I just wanted to be horizontal (= lying down). 我太累了,只想躺着。
Oxford Collocations DictionaryHorizontal is used with these nouns:- arrow
- axis
- beam
- …
Word Originmid 16th cent. (originally meaning something of or at the horizon): from French, or from modern Latin horizontalis, from late Latin horizon, horizont-, from Greek horizōn (kuklos) ‘limiting (circle)’.