| vertical bank | a bank so steep that the plane's lateral axis approaches the vertical |
| stratification | the placing of seeds in damp sand or sawdust or peat moss in order to preserve them or promote germination |
| stratification | the act or process or arranging persons into classes or social strata |
vertical integration
vertical combination | absorption into a single firm of several firms involved in all aspects of a product's manufacture from raw materials to distribution |
fipple flute
fipple pipe
recorder
vertical flute | a tubular wind instrument with finger holes and a fipple mouthpiece |
| perpendicular | an extremely steep face |
plumb line
perpendicular | a cord from which a metal weight is suspended pointing directly to the earth's center of gravity, used to determine the vertical from a given point |
| upright vertical | a vertical structural member as a post or stake, the ball sailed between the uprights |
| vertical file | a file in which records are stored upright on one edge |
| vertical section | a mechanical drawing showing the interior of an object as if made by a vertical plane passing through it |
vertical stabilizer
vertical stabiliser
vertical fin
tail fin
tailfin | a stabilizer that is part of the vertical tail structure of an airplane |
| vertical surface | a surface that is vertical |
| vertical tail | the vertical airfoil in the tail assembly of an aircraft |
| stratification | a layered configuration |
| distance | the property created by the space between two objects or points |
| mean distance | the arithmetic mean of the maximum and minimum distances of a celestial body (satellite or secondary star) from its primary |
focal distance
focal length | the distance from a lens to its focus |
| hyperfocal distance | the distance in front of a lens that is focused at infinity beyond which all objects are well defined and clear |
| distance length | size of the gap between two places, the distance from New York to Chicago, he determined the length of the shortest line segment joining the two points |
| skip distance | the shortest distance that permits radio signals (of a given frequency) to travel from the transmitter to the receiver by reflection from the ionosphere |
central veins of liver
venae centrales hepatis | terminal branches of the hepatic veins that lie in the hepatic lobules and receive blood from the liver sinusoids |
ciliary veins
venae ciliares | small veins coming from the ciliary body |
conjunctival veins
venae conjunctivales | veins draining the conjunctiva |
superior epigastric veins
venae epigastricae superiores | veins that accompany the superior epigastric artery |
episcleral veins
venae episclerales | small veins in the sclera near the corneal margin, empty into the anterior ciliary veins |
esophageal veins
oesophageal veins
venae esophageae | small veins from the esophagus emptying into the brachiocephalic vein or the azygos veins |
meningeal veins
venae meningeae | veins at accompany the meningeal arteries |
scleral veins
venae sclerales | tributaries of the anterior ciliary veins that drain the sclera of the eye |
venae labiales anteriores
anterior labial veins | veins from the labia majora to the external pudendal vein |
venae labiales posteriores
posterior labial veins | veins that pass posterior from the labia majora to the internal pudendal vein |
| distance vision | vision for objects that afeet or more from the viewer |
perpendicular
perpendicular style
English-Gothic
English-Gothic architecture | a Gothic style in th and th century England, characterized by vertical lines and a fourentered (Tudor) arch and fan vaulting |
| middle distance | the part of a scene between the foreground and the background |
long distance
long-distance call
trunk call | a telephone call made outside the local calling area, I talked to her by long distance |
distance
aloofness | indifference by personal withdrawal, emotional distance |
industrial union
vertical union | a labor union that admits all workers in a given industry irrespective of their craft |
| distance | a distant region, I could see it in the distance |
| vertical circle | a great circle on the celestial sphere passing through the zenith and perpendicular to the horizon |
marathoner
marathon runner
road runner
long-distance runner | someone who participates in long-distance races (especially in marathons) |
| stratification | forming or depositing in layers |
| vertical | something that is oriented vertically |
| perpendicular | a straight line at right angles to another line |
| angular distance | the angular separation between two objects as perceived by an observer, he recorded angular distances between the stars |
| vertical angle | either of two equal and opposite angles formed by the intersection of two straight lines |
stratification
social stratification | the condition of being arranged in social strata or classes within a group |
distance
space | the interval between two times, the distance from birth to death, it all happened in the space ofminutes |
| distance | a remote point in time, if that happens it will be at some distance in the future, at a distance of ten years he had forgotten many of the details |
outdistance
outstrip
distance | go far ahead of, He outdistanced the other runners |
stand back
keep one's eyes off
keep one's distance
keep one's hands off
stay away | stay clear of, avoid, Keep your hands off my wife!, Keep your distance from this man--he is dangerous |
| distance | keep at a distance, we have to distance ourselves from these events in order to continue living |