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lateral

/lat-er-uhl/US // ˈlæt ər əl //UK // (ˈlætərəl) //

侧面,侧面的,横向,旁边的

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Definitions

adj.形容词 adjective
  1. 1
    • : of or relating to the side; situated at, proceeding from, or directed to a side: a lateral view.
    • : pertaining to or entailing a position, office, etc., that is different but equivalent or roughly equivalent in status, as distinguished from a promotion or demotion: a lateral move.
    • : Phonetics. articulated so that the breath passes on either or both sides of the tongue, as l.
n.名词 noun
  1. 1
    • : a lateral part or extension, as a branch or shoot.
    • : Mining. a small drift off to the side of a principal one.
    • : Phonetics. a lateral speech sound.
    • : Football. lateral pass.
v.无主动词 verb
  1. 1
    • : Football. to throw a lateral pass.
    • : to move laterally or sideways: migrating birds lateraling down into Cape May.
v.有主动词 verb
  1. 1
    • : Football. to throw in a lateral pass.

Synonyms & Antonyms

Examples

  • These lateral areas assess whether behaviors conform to social norms, and exert inhibitory control over inappropriate or maladaptive behavior.

  • As a result, roots grow longer, lateral roots develop, and more root hairs sprout.

  • Social pressure, technological innovations, and economic trends are all closing in on its main product, so it’s trying to make a lateral move into another bloated, polluting industry.

  • Meanwhile, he said, several dozen of the department’s more proactive-minded officers responded to the new rules and paperwork by simply deciding to “lateral out” to a job in another police department.

  • On July 18, responding to Musk’s call for job applicants who wanted to help “solve” brain and spinal injuries, a Twitter user asked if Neuralink could also help disabled people living with injuries, autism and amyotrophic lateral sclerosis, or ALS.

  • Lateral Squats - For this variation, you step to the side as your do your squats.

  • U.S. policy stipulates that military coups trigger an automatic cutoff of bi-lateral military assistance.

  • In the absence of a bi-lateral breakthrough, Israel should use the Arab Peace Initiative (API) to break the ice.

  • One never sees lateral passing these days -- instead it's plunge or pass.

  • But under pressure, many firms are giving up on organic growth and turning to a lateral-hire strategy in the downturn.

  • The height of the tower from the level of the street is 105 feet, the slated towers over the lateral pediments being smaller.

  • While a person has the natural right also to the lateral support of his land, yet he cannot use it to the injury of another.

  • The owner of land adjoining a highway has no right to the lateral support of the soil of the street.

  • Sometimes these traps were weirs or by-washes, made of long lateral tanks of wicker-work.

  • The pillars are strengthened against lateral yielding by horizontal and diagonal bracing.