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lateral
[ lat-er-uhl ]
adjective
- of or relating to the side; situated at, proceeding from, or directed to a side:
a lateral view.
- pertaining to or entailing a position, office, etc., that is different but equivalent or roughly equivalent in status, as distinguished from a promotion or demotion:
a lateral move.
- Phonetics. articulated so that the breath passes on either or both sides of the tongue, as l.
noun
- a lateral part or extension, as a branch or shoot.
- Mining. a small drift off to the side of a principal one.
- Phonetics. a lateral speech sound.
- Football. lateral pass.
verb (used without object)
- Football. to throw a lateral pass.
- to move laterally or sideways:
migrating birds lateraling down into Cape May.
verb (used with object)
- Football. to throw (the ball) in a lateral pass.
lateral
/ ˈlætərəl /
adjective
- of or relating to the side or sides
a lateral blow
- phonetics (of a speech sound like l ) pronounced with the tip of the tongue touching the centre of the alveolar ridge, leaving space on one or both sides for the passage of the airstream
noun
- a lateral object, part, passage, or movement
- phonetics a lateral speech sound
- botany a branch, leaf, or bud that grows out from the side of a stem or trunk
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Derived Forms
- ˈlaterally, adverb
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Other Words From
- lat·er·al·ly adverb
- pseu·do·lat·er·al adjective
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Word History and Origins
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Word History and Origins
Origin of lateral1
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Example Sentences
Lateral Squats - For this variation, you step to the side as your do your squats.
U.S. policy stipulates that military coups trigger an automatic cutoff of bi-lateral military assistance.
In the absence of a bi-lateral breakthrough, Israel should use the Arab Peace Initiative (API) to break the ice.
One never sees lateral passing these days -- instead it's plunge or pass.
But under pressure, many firms are giving up on organic growth and turning to a lateral-hire strategy in the downturn.
The height of the tower from the level of the street is 105 feet, the slated towers over the lateral pediments being smaller.
While a person has the natural right also to the lateral support of his land, yet he cannot use it to the injury of another.
The owner of land adjoining a highway has no right to the lateral support of the soil of the street.
Sometimes these traps were weirs or by-washes, made of long lateral tanks of wicker-work.
The pillars are strengthened against lateral yielding by horizontal and diagonal bracing.
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