hochkant

Betekenis (Engels)

Adv

1. upright, on end, edgeways (usually said of things that are not normally positioned this way)
2. (Southern-Germany, colloquial, especially) forcefully, with force; construed with verbs such as rausfliegen, rausschmeißen

Adj

upright, on end (as above)

Sinonieme

aufrecht

senkrecht

aufrechtstehend

Vertalings

upright

debout

on end

standing

de canto

verticalement

ευθύς

eretto

ritto

overeind

achter elkaar

omhoogstaan

vertical

honrado

Etimologie (Engels)

By surface analysis, hoch (“high”) + Kante (“edge”). Compare Swedish på högkant.