Noun: lateral
| Singular | lateral |
| Plural | laterals |
Sample Sentences
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[…] Canal and laterals, section 4, and the first part of section 5; and Miller Canal and laterals. [1956, United States House Appropriations Committee, Public Works Appropriations for 1957, page 703]
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Two-thirds of the drownings, or 103, occurred along the back of the canal or lateral. […] 4 drownings per year occurred in reaches of canals or laterals protected by fencing. [1971, Howard S. Latham, James M. Verzuh, Reducing Hazards to People and Animals on Reclamation ..., page 7:]
Nouns inflected like lateral
soldier's woundwort,
Nicosian,
whopper,
greypate,
tactile sign language,
chronotrope,
Rosie Lee,
dissentient,
photoinactivator,
sulphonediimine,
coastal waterfall,
residuary devise,
bituminization,
nitrosonaphthol,
smṛiti,
geosphere,
backscreen,
mensuralist,
flocculate,
flocculant, etc. (List truncated at 20 nouns)
Etymology
Borrowed from Latin laterālis (“belonging to the side”), from latus (“the side or flank”) + -ālis (“-al”, adjectival suffix). See: Latin Nouns '
laterālis'.
Verbs referencing "lateral"
Spanish Nouns
lado, Finnish Nouns
lateraali.