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UK
/lˈætəɹəli/
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[ US /ˈɫætɝəˌɫi/ ]
[ US /ˈɫætɝəˌɫi/ ]
ADVERB
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to or by or from the side
such women carry in their heads kinship knowledge of six generations depth and extending laterally among consanguineal kin as far as the grandchildren of second cousin -
in a lateral direction or location
the body is spindle-shaped and only slightly compressed laterally
How To Use laterally In A Sentence
- In international custom, a nation that unilaterally breaks contracts must make good the damage.
- Moreover, cephalopods or both scaphopods and cephalopods, are closely related to, and descended from, laterally compressed helcionelloids.
- an insect's versatile antennae can move up and down or laterally
- Laterally, a shallow groove borders the lingual side of the tooth from the laterocone to the laterobasal cusp.
- If you want things to happen then you've got to be proactive, use your initiative and think laterally.
- So the idea that even one Planned Parenthood staffer (by definition … a “pro-choicer”) is perfectly okay with funding even one abortion, specifically to kill a black child — well, we are unilaterally and unequivocally against that. ProWomanProLife » On “moral hygiene”
- Because these lures sin laterally, the stop-start retrieve works really well. Favorite Lures of the Trout Guides
- Together with the associated protein troponin, TM on actin can switch between two laterally shifted conformations.
- When a main element is dependence on a unilaterally declared temporary cease-fire by one of the key violent actors on the scene – which has not been defeated and which can rescind the cease-fire at any time – how can it be termed a “success”, nevermind a “victory”? Matthew Yglesias » “Winning” The War
- As defined by Collins, Dinocarids are bilaterally symmetrical arthropods with a body divided into two principal tagmata, recalling the prosoma and opisthosoma of chelicerates, and a non-mineralised cuticle.