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| lat·er·al [ láttərəl ] |
adjective |
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1. at side: relating to, located at, or affecting the side
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2. sideways in career, rather than up: involving transfer to a position in an organization or career that has the same status or pay as the previous one
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3. phonetics produced with incomplete obstruction of air: describes a speech sound produced with the tip of the tongue touching the alveolar ridge so that air moves around one or both sides of the tongue. The only lateral sound in English is /l/.
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4. genetics
Same as horizontaladj (sense 7)
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noun (plural lat·er·als) |
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1. part at side: a part, appendage, movement, or object at the side of something
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2. phonetics lateral consonant: a lateral speech sound, e.g. /l/ in English
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3. football sideways or backward football pass: in football, a sideways or backward pass
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transitive and intransitive verb (past and past participle lat·er·aled, present participle lat·er·al·ing, 3rd person present singular lat·er·als) |
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football pass ball sideways: in football, to pass the ball sideways or backward
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| [15th century. < Latin lateralis< later- "side"] |
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  lat·er·al·ly adverb |
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