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. Football., -aled also -alled, -al·ing -al·ling, -als -als.

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.]

laterally lat'er·al·ly adv.

adj

Definition: sideways
Antonyms: centered, central

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(lat'ərəl)
adj

A position either to the right or the left of the midsagittal plane.

In anatomy, applied to structures away from the midline or on the outer surface of the body.

1. denoting a position farther from the median plane or midline of the body or a structure; the side or outside.
2. pertaining to a side.

• l. aids — used by the rider to move a horse sideways; pressure by the neck rein and the thigh and calf on the same side at the same time.
• l. body folds — folds which commence at the head, then at the tail eventually meeting at the umbilicus; the folds gradually separate the embryo from the extraembryonic tissues.
• l. collateral ligament — lateral ligaments of many joints, e.g. the femorotibial articulation.
• l. decubitus — lateral recumbency.
• l. geniculate nucleus — a terminal and relay station for optical nerve fibers within the thalamus, beneath the lateral geniculate body.
• l. mesoderm — or lateral plate mesoderm; mesoderm which extends (a) around the embryonal gut and (b) inside the surface ectoderm to enclose the celom between these splanchnic and parietal layers respectively.
• l. nasal process — a process which borders the nasal pit, eventually the nostril, and which is derived from the embryo's frontonasal mesenchyme.
• l. palatine processes — processes which grow out from the maxillary processes and grow into the oronasal cavity, eventually fusing with each other and the medial palatine process and the nasal septum to form the embryo's hard palate.

Attached to or at the side; a bud borne in the axil of a leaf or a branch but not at its tip.

IN BRIEF: Sideways.

I'm way overdue for a promotion. I've made so many lateral moves, I'm beside myself. — Gary Apple

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Dansk (Danish)
adj. - side-, til siden, sidestillet, lateral
n. - sidegren, sideskud, sideknop, sideledning, sidelyd
v. intr. - aflevere på tværs af banen
v. tr. - aflevere på tværs af banen

idioms:

• lateral thinking    uortodoks tænkning, intuitiv tænkning

Nederlands (Dutch)
lateraal, zijdelings, zij-

Français (French)
adj. - latéral
n. - latérale, branchement
v. intr. - (Sport) faire une passe latérale (football)
v. tr. - (Sport) lancer la balle (en faisant une passe latérale)

idioms:

• lateral thinking    pensée latérale

Deutsch (German)
adj. - seitlich, Seit..., Seiten...
n. - Lateral, Seitenzweig, seitliche Ballabgabe, (Bergbau) Nebenstollen
v. - sich quer bewegen, (Fußball) den Ball zur Seite abgeben

idioms:

• lateral thinking    Querdenken

Ελληνική (Greek)
adj. - πλευρικός, παράπλευρος, πλάγιος
n. - παράλληλος αγωγός

idioms:

• lateral thinking    ανορθόδοξη μέθοδος επίλυσης προβλημάτων

Italiano (Italian)
laterale

idioms:

• lateral thinking    pensiero laterale

Português (Portuguese)
adj. - lateral, transversal
n. - lateral (f)

idioms:

• lateral thinking    usar a imaginação para ligar fatos

Русский (Russian)
боковой, поперечный, латеральный, боковая часть

idioms:

• lateral thinking    широкий кругозор

Español (Spanish)
adj. - lateral
n. - parte lateral o expansión, pase lateral, sonido o fonema lateral
v. intr. - tirar un pase lateral
v. tr. - tirar (la pelota) en un pase lateral

idioms:

• lateral thinking    pensamiento lateral

Svenska (Swedish)
adj. - sido-, sidoställd
n. - sidogren, sidoskott, lateral

中文（简体） (Chinese (Simplified))
侧面的, 旁边的, 侧部, 边音, 支线, 横向传球, 使横向传球

idioms:

• lateral thinking    涉及到各方面的考虑, 水平思考, 侧面思考, 指从各个不同角度来思考问题

中文（繁體） (Chinese (Traditional))
adj. - 側面的, 旁邊的
n. - 側部, 邊音, 支線
v. intr. - 橫向傳球
v. tr. - 使橫向傳球

idioms:

• lateral thinking    涉及到各方面的考慮, 水平思考, 側面思考, 指從各個不同角度來思考問題

한국어 (Korean)
adj. - 옆의, 측면의, 방계의
n. - 측생 , 곁가지, 측음
v. intr. - 옆으로 패스하다
v. tr. - 옆으로 가게하다

日本語 (Japanese)
adj. - 横の, 外側の, 側面の, 側音の, 側生の, 側生枝
n. - 側部, 側生芽, 側音
v. - ラテラルパスをする

idioms:

• lateral thinking    水平思考

العربيه (Arabic)
‏(صفه) جانبي, شئ جانبي (الاسم) بجانب‏

עברית (Hebrew)
adj. - ‮צדדי, של הצד, מן הצד, רוחבי, צאצא של אח או אחות‬
n. - ‮ענף צדדי‬
v. intr. - ‮זרק את הכדור הצידה או נע לרוחב המגרש (כדורגל אמריקאי)‬
v. tr. - ‮זרק את הכדור הצידה (כדורגל אמריקאי)‬

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