hochkant

Significado (Inglés)

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)

Conceptos

de canto

Sinónimos

aufrecht

senkrecht

aufrechtstehend

Traducciones

upright

debout

on end

standing

uninclined

verticalement

verticale

eretto

ritto

overeind

achter elkaar

omhoogstaan

vertical

ευθύς

Etimología (Inglés)

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