Used in a Sentence

laterally

Definitions, parts of speech, synonyms, and sentence examples for laterally.

Editorial note

I guess the yellower is compressed liquid oxygen spilling out laterally as the rocket spins.

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Definitions2
Parts of speech1

Quick take

Relating to the direction to the side.

Meaning at a glance

The clearest senses and uses of laterally gathered in one view.

adverb

Relating to the direction to the side.

adverb

Done in a lateral manner.

Definitions

Core meanings and parts of speech for laterally.

adverb

Relating to the direction to the side.

adverb

Done in a lateral manner.

Example sentences

1

I guess the yellower is compressed liquid oxygen spilling out laterally as the rocket spins.

2

And even then if the company is large enough they should be given an opportunity to move laterally within the company to move to another team.

3

In this sense code doesn't just grow vertically, even a dead project can yield code that grows laterally too!

4

If you don't wish to move into management or elsewhere, there isn't anywhere else for you to go except laterally.

5

If you only want people who have already done this exact job, you are asking people to move laterally, not up.

6

Halfway down the interior fuselage you can seen the terrifyingly small cable pulleys that transfer pilot commands laterally to the wing control surfaces.

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I noticed that it seemed to spread laterally much quicker than it dropped, which looked odd.

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To say otherwise, you'd have to point to a case where genetic information passed laterally between species, rather than vertically from parent to child.

9

You'd have zero trouble buying food, except at very small places, but might have to think a bit laterally for some of the transport options.

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Maybe you can move laterally into a role which you find to be more interesting, or at least discover an opportunity to build interesting skills.

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This isn't to say that this is how expanding laterally will work in every case, especially when you're picking up a lot of knew paradigms.

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I didn't realize until halfway through the first game that you could combine tiles laterally without having to pick them up off've the stack.

Quote examples

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It's also possible to be perpetually expanding laterally into technology so new that you spend more time testing yourself in the wild than many who go "deep" on more thoroughly-trodded ground.

2

"It was the first space shuttle to perform an unmanned flight, including landing in fully automatic mode." "[...] despite a lateral wind speed of 61.2 kilometres per hour (38.0 mph), it landed only 3 metres (9.8 ft) laterally and 10 metres (33 ft) longitudinally from the target mark." That sounds pretty impressive.

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The risk of expanding laterally is that you can pretty much surf on a fairly clean wave of documentation, examples, tutorials, SO q&a and github code to solve most of the "problems" you face (and many of these "problems" are shit like "learning an API" or "gotcha config files").

Frequently asked questions

Short answers drawn from the clearest meanings and examples for this word.

How do you use laterally in a sentence?

I guess the yellower is compressed liquid oxygen spilling out laterally as the rocket spins.

What does laterally mean?

Relating to the direction to the side.

What part of speech is laterally?

laterally is commonly used as adverb.