Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • In a rectangular manner; with or at right angles.

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  • adverb In a rectangular manner.

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Examples

  • I substituted the vanilla extract for almond and sliced these cookies both circular and rectangularly using round 1 1/2 inch cookie cutters.

    TWD: COCONUT BUTTER THINS Melissa 2009

  • I substituted the vanilla extract for almond and sliced these cookies both circular and rectangularly using round 1 1/2 inch cookie cutters.

    Archive 2009-03-01 Melissa 2009

  • The oddest part though, was the fact that the two-level building didn't have a “shape”; it wasn't laid out rectangularly, nor in a square, nor any other specific shape.

    Untitled NaNo Project Ingrid K. V. Hardy 2011

  • Our oven hob has four rings, like most hobs arranged rectangularly.

    Archive 2010-02-01 Brian Clegg 2010

  • Our oven hob has four rings, like most hobs arranged rectangularly.

    Instruction books are admissions of failure Brian Clegg 2010

  • My house is rectangularly shaped and has no indoor plumbing, but I do have electricity.

    Archive 2008-07-01 Jennifer Marie Jordan 2008

  • My house is rectangularly shaped and has no indoor plumbing, but I do have electricity.

    Botswana 2008: Nothing is simple in Botswana! Jennifer Marie Jordan 2008

  • From the very nature of such fabrics, a thorn or nail becoming tangled in them, tears them rectangularly — divides them into two longitudinal rents, at right angles with each other, and meeting at an apex where the thorn enters — but it is scarcely possible to conceive the piece 'torn off.'

    The Mystery of Marie Roget 2006

  • The happy pair were seated, not opposite each other, but rectangularly, at the handsome rosewood table; they dined without a cloth — a distinguishing elegance — and so far had not spoken a word.

    The Man of Property 2004

  • Clamp packs of several pieces between 2 hard wood blocks in the vice, align the edges in one plane, file the edges to be rectangularly even, longitudinal direction must be exactly straight, slightly round the comers.

    10. Setting-up of Tools Dieter Zemmrich 1993

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