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laterally

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lat·er·al  (ltr-l)
adj.
1. Of, relating to, or situated at or on the side.
2. Of or constituting a change within an organization or a hierarchy to a position at a similar level, as in salary or responsibility, to the one being left: made a lateral move within the company.
3. Linguistics Of, relating to, or being a sound produced by breath passing along one or both sides of the tongue.
n.
1. A lateral part, projection, passage, or appendage.
2. Football A lateral pass.
3. Linguistics A lateral sound, such as (l).
v. lat·er·aled also lat·er·alled, lat·er·al·ing also lat·er·al·ling, lat·er·als also lat·er·als Football
v.intr.
To execute a lateral pass.
v.tr.
To pass (the ball) sideways or backward.

[Middle English, from Old French, from Latin laterlis, from latus, later-, side.]

later·al·ly adv.
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Adv.1.laterally - to or by or from the side; "such women carry in their heads kinship knowledge of six generations depth and extending laterally among consanguineal kin as far as the grandchildren of second cousin"
2.laterally - in a lateral direction or location; "the body is spindle-shaped and only slightly compressed laterally"
anatomy, general anatomy - the branch of morphology that deals with the structure of animals
Translations
laterally [ˈlætərəlɪ] ADVlateralmente
laterally [ˈlætərəli] advlatéralement
lateral thinking n (mainly British) façon d'affronter les problèmes en utilisant son imagination
late riser nlève-tard > mf
laterally
advseitlich


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The principal fibre traversing its length being split open a convenient distance, and the elastic sides of the aperture pressed apart, the head is inserted between them, the leaf drooping on one side, with its forward half turned jauntily up on the brows, and the remaining part spreading laterally behind the ears.
Near the root of this trunk was an immense quantity of black shaggy hair- more than could have been supplied by the coats of a score of buffaloes; and projecting from this hair downwardly and laterally, sprang two gleaming tusks not unlike those of the wild boar, but of infinitely greater dimensions.
At such an elevation there was always a strong wind, and at times the kite rose to an enormous height, as well as travelling for great distances laterally.
 
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