lateral

5 definitions found

lateral - Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 :

  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

  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]

  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]

lateral - WordNet (r) 2.1 (2005) :

  lateral
      adj 1: situated at or extending to the side; "the lateral
             branches of a tree"; "shot out sidelong boughs"- Tennyson
             [syn: lateral, sidelong]
      2: lying away from the median and sagittal plane of a body;
         "lateral lemniscus"
      n 1: a pass to a receiver upfield from the passer [syn: lateral pass
           , lateral]

lateral - Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 :

  205 Moby Thesaurus words for "lateral":
     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