单词 | laterally |
释义 | laterallyadv. 1. At the side; to or from the side; in a lateral or sideways direction. ΘΚΠ the world > movement > motion in a certain direction > sideways movement or a sideways movement > [adverb] sidelonga1398 sidelings?a1400 sidelingc1425 laterallyc1454 collaterally?a1475 sidewarda1513 sidewise1531 byward1556 sideways1572 sidewards1575 sidelingwise1577 crabby1582 crab-like1605 sideway1847 crabwise1904 the world > space > direction > specific directions > [adverb] > in sideways direction sidelonga1398 sidelings?a1400 sidelingc1425 laterallyc1454 sidewarda1513 sidewise1531 besidec1540 sideway1561 sideways1572 the world > space > relative position > quality of having sides or being a side > [adverb] acostc1330 collaterally?a1475 aflank1577 aside of1630 laterally1646 c1454 R. Pecock Folewer to Donet 138 (MED) Yf y schulde do amys in þo deedis and wordis, þilk viciosite schulde come laterali, as if þerbi oþire symple cristen men schulden be sclaundrid. 1560 W. Painter tr. W. Fulke Antiprognosticon sig. D.viv The wynde is an exhalation whot and dry, drawen vp by the heate of the Sonne, and for the weight of it selfe fallyng downe, is laterally or sydelonges caried aboute the earthe. 1561 R. Eden tr. M. Cortés Arte Nauigation i. viii. sig. B ii The inferior parte is moued..laterally. 1646 Sir T. Browne Pseudodoxia Epidemica iv. i. 181 Pectinals, or such as have their bones made laterally like a comb. View more context for this quotation 1694 W. Holder Disc. Time 89 The Days whereof are set Laterally after and against the Columns of [the] Golden Number. 1759 N. Jenty in Philos. Trans. 1758 (Royal Soc.) 50 551 I found the lungs closely adhering to the ribs laterally. 1797 T. Holcroft tr. F. L. Stolberg Trav. (ed. 2) III. lxxx. 259 A rope..was fastened laterally to a wall. a1855 C. Brontë Professor (1857) I. x. 160 [She] turned her eye laterally on me. 1860 J. Tyndall Glaciers of Alps i. v. 38 The greater portion of it [sc. the water] escaping laterally from the glacier. 1907 H. A. Bethell Mod. Guns 172 In a wider sense sweeping means distributing fire laterally over a given front. 1946 A. Nelson Princ. Agric. Bot. i. 4 The carbons always form a chain with the hydrogens and oxygens disposed about them laterally. 1966 T. Lupton Managem. & Social Sci. ii. 42 Once having started to mount the ladder in a particular plant it is impossible for a man to transfer to another steel factory laterally. 2007 Chicago Tribune (Midwest ed.) 23 Nov. iv. 4/5 In the scheme, the offensive linemen move laterally. 2. In extended use: indirectly; unconventionally. In recent use with reference to lateral thinking (see lateral thinking n. at lateral adj. and n. Compounds). ΚΠ 1866 W. D. Howells Venetian Life 128 They..abandoned the main subject of dispute and took up the quarrel laterally. 1977 M. Bowie in R. Cardinal Sense & Creation 152 Eluard expects of his reader that he will enjoy thinking laterally, that he will..be prepared to seek unusual connections between usual things. 2008 Independent 14 Feb. (Extra section) 11/5 Planners will need to think laterally. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2015; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < adv.c1454 |
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