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单词 laterally
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laterallyadv.

Brit. /ˈlat(ə)rəli/, /ˈlat(ə)rl̩i/, U.S. /ˈlædərəli/, /ˈlætrəli/
Forms: see lateral adj. and n. and -ly suffix2.
Origin: Formed within English, by derivation. Etymons: lateral adj., -ly suffix2.
Etymology: < lateral adj. + -ly suffix2.
1. At the side; to or from the side; in a lateral or sideways direction.
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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).
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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).
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