<p><strong>Adjective:</strong></p><ul><li>Of or relating to the side; situated at, proceeding from, or directed to a side: a lateral view.</li><li>Pertaining to or entailing a position, office, etc., that is different but equivalent or roughly equivalent in status, as distinguished from a promotion or demotion: a lateral move.</li><li>Phonetics: articulated so that the breath passes on either or both sides of the tongue, as l.</li></ul><p><strong>Noun:</strong></p><ul><li>A lateral part or extension, as a branch or shoot.</li><li>Mining: a small drift off to the side of a principal one.</li><li>Phonetics: a lateral speech sound.</li><li>Football: lateral pass.</li></ul><p><strong>Verb (used without object):</strong></p><ul><li>Football: to throw a lateral pass.</li><li>To move laterally or sideways: migrating birds lateraling down into Cape May.</li></ul><p><strong>Verb (used with object):</strong></p><ul><li>Football: to throw (the ball) in a lateral pass.</li></ul>