{
    "term": "vertical",
    "partOfSpeech": "adjective",
    "ox5000": true,
    "cefr": "b2",
    "image": "data/images/li/lines.png",
    "definitions": [
        {
            "senseNumber": 1,
            "definition": "going straight up or down from a level surface or from top to bottom in a picture, etc.",
            "cefr": "b2",
            "examples": [
                {
                    "text": "the vertical axis of the graph"
                },
                {
                    "text": "The cliff was almost vertical."
                },
                {
                    "text": "There was a vertical drop to the ocean."
                }
            ],
            "topics": ["Colours and Shapes", "Maths and measurement"]
        },
        {
            "senseNumber": 2,
            "definition": "having a structure in which there are top, middle and bottom levels",
            "examples": [
                {
                    "text": "a vertical flow of communication"
                }
            ]
        },
        {
            "senseNumber": 3,
            "definition": "passed from one generation to the next",
            "labels": "(medical)",
            "examples": [
                {
                    "text": "4% of these infections result from vertical transmission from mother to baby."
                }
            ]
        }
    ],
    "pronunciations": {
        "uk": [
            {
                "pronunciation": "/ˈvɜːtɪkl/",
                "audio": "ve/vertical/vertical__gb_1.mp3"
            }
        ],
        "us": [
            {
                "pronunciation": "/ˈvɜːrtɪkl/",
                "audio": "ve/vertical/vertical__us_1.mp3"
            }
        ]
    },
    "wordOrigin": "mid 16th cent. (in the sense ‘directly overhead’): from French, or from late Latin verticalis, from vertex ‘whirlpool, crown of a head, vertex’, from vertere ‘to turn’."
}