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Bookmark or Share- What is the correct punctuation after "as follows"?Here is a quick review of the advice that four influential style guides give for punctuating the lead-in to a display (vertical) list. The most important thing to note at the outset is that most of the style guides I consulted do not view the presence or absence of the particular words "as follows" as being critical to the guidance they offer.
- expressions - Is x plotted against y or is y plotted against x ..."Vertical against horizontal", and, if you choose the almost (but not quite) universal convention of having x-values along the horizontal axis, and the variables are x and y, 'y against x'. There is the complication that the horizontal axis is usually called the 'x-axis'; this doesn't matter when you're plotting v against t (or t against v ...
- What’s the difference between “line” and “row”?The terms can overlap again, though, in technical areas. In tables or databases it is common to speak of rows and columns, with an emphatic horizontal/vertical contrast in those terms: a row is implicitly horizontal, and cannot be mistaken for a column. It is also perfectly intelligible, however, to speak of ‘lines in tables’.
- meaning - Origin of "Plumb" to mean "absolutely" - English Language ...Surely 'plumb vertical' is a builder's term, meaning 'precisely vertical as measured by plumbline', and it was taken up by outsiders who assumed it just meant very (I have seen it as plum as well as the variations in the dictionary).
- single word requests - X, Y, Z — horizontal, vertical and ...If x and y are horizontal, z is vertical; if x and z are horizontal, y is vertical. The words horizontal and vertical are generally used in a planar (2-dimensional) sense, not spatial (3-dimensional). Which is the reason you may not find a word corresponding to the third dimension along with horizontal and vertical.
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