| 释义 |
horiˈzontalize, v.
[f. as prec. + -ize.]
a. trans. To place in a horizontal position.
b. to horizontalize it (humorous): to lie down flat.
1837T. Hook Jack Brag xxii, With his little legs horizontalised on his lodging-house sofa. 1843Fraser's Mag. XXVIII. 39 My friend..was still horizontalising it on the chairs.
Hence horiˌzontaliˈzation, the action of making horizontal; spec. in Craniometry, the placing of the skull with the datum-plane truly horizontal. |