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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.

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

Translations

جانِبيا

stranou

seitlich

latéralement

oldalnézetben

til hliîar

lateralmente

på tvers til sida

yandanyanlamasına

侧面地横向地

laterally

[ˈlætərəlɪ] ADV → lateralmente

Collins Spanish Dictionary - Complete and Unabridged 8th Edition 2005 © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1971, 1988 © HarperCollins Publishers 1992, 1993, 1996, 1997, 2000, 2003, 2005

laterally

[ˈlætərəli] adv → latéralementlateral thinking n (mainly British) façon d'affronter les problèmes en utilisant son imaginationlate riser n → lève-tard mf

Collins English/French Electronic Resource. © HarperCollins Publishers 2005

laterally

adv → seitlich

Collins German Dictionary – Complete and Unabridged 7th Edition 2005. © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1980 © HarperCollins Publishers 1991, 1997, 1999, 2004, 2005, 2007

lateral

(ˈlӕtərəl) adjective

of, at, to or from the side. lateral movement.

ˈlaterally adverb

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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.

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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.

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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. In fact, the kite became, in a short time, one of the curiosities of Castra Regis and all around it.

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He sat his mount as we sit a horse, grasping the animal's barrel with his lower limbs, while the hands of his two right arms held his immense spear low at the side of his mount; his two left arms were outstretched laterally to help preserve his balance, the thing he rode having neither bridle or reins of any description for guidance.

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Reuter turned her eye laterally on me, to ascertain, probably, whether I was collected enough to be ushered into her sanctum sanctorum.

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Here were the great males towering in all the majesty of their imposing height; here were the gleaming white tusks protruding from their massive lower jaws to a point near the centre of their foreheads, the laterally placed, protruding eyes with which they could look forward or backward, or to either side without turning their heads, here the strange antennae-like ears rising from the tops of their foreheads; and the additional pair of arms extending from midway between the shoulders and the hips.

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One arm was at least twelve inches longer than its mate, which was itself long in proportion to the torso, while the legs, similarly mismated and terminating in huge, flat feet that protruded laterally, caused the thing to lurch fearfully from side to side as it lumbered toward the girl.

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She was stationed in the edge of the low pines and chestnuts that succeed the first or large growth of the forest, and directly above the angle where the highway turned from the straight course to the village, and ascended the mountain laterally. Consequently, she commanded a view, not only of the valley, but of the road beneath her.

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Its large toes protruded laterally as do those of the semiarboreal peoples of Borneo, the Philippines and other remote regions where low types still persist.

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The beak is flattened laterally, that is, in a plane at right angles to that of a spoonbill or duck.

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They begin to deepen; they pile story upon story; they mount upon each other; they gush forth at the top, like all laterally compressed growth, and there is a rivalry as to which shall thrust its head above its neighbors, for the sake of getting a little air.

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Below 10,000 feet in controlled airspace, VFR requirements are three miles visibility and 1000 feet above clouds, 500 feet below clouds and 2000 feet laterally from clouds.