'Lateral' definitions:
Definition of 'lateral'
(from WordNet)
adjective
Situated at or extending to the side; "the lateral branches of a tree"; "shot out sidelong boughs"- Tennyson [syn: lateral, sidelong]
adjective
Lying away from the median and sagittal plane of a body; "lateral lemniscus"
noun
A pass to a receiver upfield from the passer [syn: lateral pass, lateral]
Definition of 'Lateral'
From: GCIDE
- Lateral \Lat"er*al\, a. [L. lateralis, fr. latus, lateris, side: cf. F. lat['e]ral.]
- 1. Of or pertaining to the sides; as, the lateral walls of a house; the lateral branches of a tree. [1913 Webster]
- 2. (Anat.) Lying at, or extending toward, the side; away from the mesial plane; external; -- opposed to mesial. [1913 Webster]
- 3. Directed to the side; as, a lateral view of a thing. [1913 Webster]
- Lateral cleavage (Crystallog.), cleavage parallel to the lateral planes.
- Lateral equation (Math.), an equation of the first degree. [Obs.]
- Lateral line (Anat.), in fishes, a line of sensory organs along either side of the body, often marked by a distinct line of color.
- Lateral pressure or stress (Mech.), a pressure or stress at right angles to the length, as of a beam or bridge; -- distinguished from longitudinal pressure or stress.
- Lateral strength (Mech.), strength which resists a tendency to fracture arising from lateral pressure.
- Lateral system (Bridge Building), the system of horizontal braces (as between two vertical trusses) by which lateral stiffness is secured. [1913 Webster] lateral
Definition of 'lateral'
From: GCIDE
- lateral \lat"er*al\, v. t. & i. (Football) To pass the footbal to a receiver who is behind the passer; to make a lateral pass; as, the ball was lateraled to the fullback, who ran it for a touchdown. [PJC]
Definition of 'lateral'
From: GCIDE
- lateral \lat"er*al\, lateral pass \lat"er*al pass`\, n. (Football)
- 1. A short pass to a receiver who is upfield from the passer, i.e. is behind the passer relative to the direction of the passer's goal. [PJC]
- 2. A part or extension of something that points sideways, as a drift in a mine that goes to the side from the main one. [PJC]
Synonyms of 'lateral'
From: Moby Thesaurus
- accented,
- allophone,
- alveolar,
- apical,
- apico-alveolar,
- apico-dental,
- articulated,
- articulation,
- aspiration,
- assimilated,
- assimilation,
- back,
- barytone,
- bifacial,
- bilabial,
- bilateral,
- bowl,
- broad,
- cacuminal,
- cast,
- central,
- cerebral,
- change of pace,
- change-up,
- check,
- checked,
- chuck,
- chunk,
- close,
- consonant,
- consonantal,
- continuant,
- curve,
- dental,
- dihedral,
- diphthong,
- dissimilated,
- dissimilation,
- dorsal,
- downcurve,
- edge,
- epenthetic vowel,
- explosive,
- fastball,
- flanked,
- flanking,
- flat,
- fling,
- flip,
- forward pass,
- front,
- glancing,
- glide,
- glossal,
- glottal,
- glottalization,
- go crabwise,
- go sideways,
- guttural,
- handed,
- hard,
- heave,
- heavy,
- high,
- hurl,
- incurve,
- intonated,
- knuckleball,
- labial,
- labialization,
- labiodental,
- labiovelar,
- laryngeal,
- lateral pass,
- lateralize,
- lax,
- lee,
- leeward,
- light,
- lingual,
- liquid,
- lob,
- low,
- make leeway,
- manner of articulation,
- many-sided,
- mid,
- modification,
- monophthong,
- monophthongal,
- morphophoneme,
- multilateral,
- mute,
- muted,
- narrow,
- nasal,
- nasalized,
- next-beside,
- occlusive,
- one-sided,
- open,
- outcurve,
- oxytone,
- palatal,
- palatalized,
- parasitic vowel,
- pass,
- peak,
- peg,
- pharyngeal,
- pharyngealization,
- pharyngealized,
- phone,
- phoneme,
- phonemic,
- phonetic,
- phonic,
- pitch,
- pitched,
- plosive,
- polyhedral,
- posttonic,
- prothetic vowel,
- put,
- quadrilateral,
- retroflex,
- rounded,
- screwball,
- segmental phoneme,
- semivowel,
- serve,
- service,
- shot-put,
- shy,
- side,
- sided,
- sideling,
- sidelong,
- sideslip,
- sidestep,
- sideward,
- sidewards,
- sideway,
- sideways,
- sidewise,
- sidle,
- sinker,
- skew,
- skid,
- skirting,
- slider,
- sling,
- soft,
- sonant,
- sonority,
- speech sound,
- spitball,
- spitter,
- stop,
- stopped,
- stressed,
- strong,
- surd,
- syllabic,
- syllabic nucleus,
- syllabic peak,
- syllable,
- tense,
- tetrahedral,
- thick,
- three-sided,
- throaty,
- throw,
- tonal,
- tonic,
- toss,
- transition sound,
- trihedral,
- trilateral,
- triphthong,
- triquetrous,
- twangy,
- two-sided,
- unaccented,
- unilateral,
- unrounded,
- unstressed,
- upcurve,
- veer,
- velar,
- vocable,
- vocalic,
- vocoid,
- voice,
- voiced,
- voiced sound,
- voiceless,
- voiceless sound,
- voicing,
- vowel,
- vowellike,
- weak,
- weather,
- wide,
- windward
Words containing 'Lateral'
- Later,
- Laterality,
- Laterally,
- Latered,
- Lateres,
- later on,
- lateralization,
- lateralize,
- Lateral cleavage,
- Lateral equation,
- Lateral line,
- Lateral pressure,
- Lateral strength,
- Lateral system,
- Sooner or later,
- lateral condyle,
- lateral epicondyle,
- lateral epicondylitis,
- lateral geniculate,
- lateral pass,
- lateral rectus,
- lateral thinking,
- lateral ventricle,
- amyotrophic lateral sclerosis,
- lateral cerebral sulcus,
- lateral geniculate body,
- lateral humeral epicondylitis,
- lateral line organ,
- lateral rectus muscle