laterally
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lat·er·al
(lăt′ər-əl)adj.
1. Of, relating to, or situated at or on the side.
2. Of or constituting a change within an organization or 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, lat·er·al·ing, lat·er·als also lat·er·alled or lat·er·al·ling Football
v.intr.
To execute a lateral pass.
v.tr.
To pass (the ball) sideways or backward.
[Middle English, from Old French, from Latin laterālis, from latus, later-, side.]
lat′er·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 |
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Translations
جانِبيا
stranou
oldalnézetben
til hliîar
yandanyanlamasına
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laterally
[ˈlætərəli] adv → latéralementlateral thinking n (mainly British) façon d'affronter les problèmes en utilisant son imaginationlate riser n → lève-tard mfCollins English/French Electronic Resource. © HarperCollins Publishers 2005
laterally
adv → seitlich
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lateral
(ˈlӕtərəl) adjective of, at, to or from the side. lateral movement.
ˈlaterally adverbKernerman English Multilingual Dictionary © 2006-2013 K Dictionaries Ltd.