Lateral - English meaning

adjective

Relating to or involving the use of the imagination or original ideas to create something.

Usage examples:

Change unleashes people's creative energy

noun

A person whose job involves creative work.

Usage examples:

The most important people in the mix will be creatives and direct marketing specialists

Having the ability or power to invent or make something

adverb

With the edge uppermost or towards the viewer.

Usage examples:

An electric fan is quieter heard edgeways on than from in front or behind

adverb

With the narrowest part going first

Usage examples:

We should be able to get the sofa through edgeways.

adverb

With the edge uppermost or towards the viewer.

Usage examples:

40-feet long slabs of steel, mounted edgewise one atop the other

adverb

With the narrowest part going first

Usage examples:

We should be able to get the couch through edgewise.

noun

The side of a person's or animal's body between the ribs and the hip.

Usage examples:

Leaning against his horse's flanks

verb

Be on each or on one side of.

Usage examples:

The three defendants stood in the dock, flanked by police officers

noun

The area of the body between the ribs and the hips of an animal or a person

Usage examples:

He was experiencing a sharp pain in his flank., she dug her heels into the horse's flanks, urging i…

adjective

Having or showing creativity or inventiveness.

Usage examples:

Making imaginative use of computer software

adjective

New, original, and showing a quick intelligence

Usage examples:

An imaginative little girl

adjective

Not directly caused by or resulting from something.

Usage examples:

Full employment would have an indirect effect on wage levels

adjective

Happening in addition to an intended result

Usage examples:

Several other people were hurt as an indirect result of his carelessness., an indirect route, ranso…

adjective

Not done or communicated in a direct way

Usage examples:

We decided to take an indirect approach to tackling the problem of absenteeism., he made only an in…

adjective

(of a person) clever, original, and inventive.

Usage examples:

He was ingenious enough to overcome the limited budget

adjective

(of a person) skilled at inventing new ways to do something, esp. to solve problems, or (of ideas or things) original, and showing esp. the ability to solve problems

Usage examples:

An ingenious engineer/songwriter, she devised an ingenious solution to the problem.

adjective

(of a product, idea, etc.) featuring new methods; advanced and original.

Usage examples:

Innovative designs

adjective

(of ideas and methods) new and different

Usage examples:

Gwen introduced a number of innovative solutions.

adjective

Using new ideas or methods

Usage examples:

In recent years, the company has relied more on creative repackaging than on innovative design., in…

adjective

Having the ability to create or design new things or to think originally.

Usage examples:

The most inventive composer of his time

adjective

Having or showing the ability to design or create something new

Usage examples:

He is famous for his zany, inventive books for children.

adjective

Very good at thinking of new and original ideas

Usage examples:

He is very inventive, always dreaming up new gadgets for the home.

adjective

Neither parallel nor at right angles to a specified or implied line; slanting.

Usage examples:

We sat on the settee oblique to the fireplace

noun

Another term for slash1 (sense 2 of the noun).

adjective

Present or existing from the beginning; first or earliest.

Usage examples:

The original owner of the house

noun

The earliest form of something, from which copies may be made.

Usage examples:

The portrait may be a copy of the original

noun

The first one made and not a copy

Usage examples:

Send a copy of your receipt, but keep the original., the original plans have been changed., our tea…

noun

A position to the left or right of an object, place, or central point.

Usage examples:

A town on the other side of the river

verb

Support or oppose in a conflict, dispute, or debate.

Usage examples:

He felt that max had betrayed him by siding with beatrice

adjective

Directed to or from one side.

Usage examples:

Steve gave her a sidelong glance

adverb

To or from one side; sideways.

Usage examples:

He looked sidelong at her with a quick smile

adjective

Directed to or from the side

Usage examples:

A sidelong glance

adverb

Another term for sideways.

adverb

To, towards, or from the side.

Usage examples:

She tilted her body sideways

adjective

Directed or moving to, towards, or from the side.

Usage examples:

He hurried towards his office without a sideways glance

adjective

Another term for sideways (adverb).

adjective

Positioned or directed in a sloping or oblique direction.

Usage examples:

The slanting beams of the roof

verb

Slope or lean in a particular direction; diverge or cause to diverge from the vertical or horizontal.

Usage examples:

A ploughed field slanted up to the skyline

adjective

Sloping in one direction

Usage examples:

Swiss chalets have steeply slanting roofs, so that snow does not settle on them.

adjective

Contrary to what is usual, traditional, or accepted; not orthodox.

Usage examples:

He frequently upset other scholars with his unorthodox views

adjective

(of behavior, ideas, or methods) different from what is usual or expected

Usage examples:

He has an unorthodox teaching style.

adjective

Different from what is usual or expected in behaviour, ideas, methods, etc.

Usage examples:

Unorthodox approaches/methods/practices regulators began to scrutinize the company's unorthodox acc…

noun

(in a bird) a modified forelimb that bears large feathers and is used for flying.

Usage examples:

Besides having forelimbs that resemble the wings of modern birds, the animal sported long feathers …

verb

Travel on wings or by aircraft; fly.

Usage examples:

George satisfied his keen urge to fly by winging homewards with the royal air force