| lapidation | (noun) the act of pelting with stones; punishment inflicted by throwing stones at the victim (even unto death) | Synonyms: stoning |
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| lapidator | (noun) an attacker who pelts the victim with stones (especially with intent to kill) | Synonyms: stoner |
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| lapidify | (verb) change into stone | Synonyms: petrify |
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| lapidist | (noun) a skilled worker who cuts and engraves precious stones | Synonyms: lapidary |
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| lapin | (noun) castrated male rabbit | - |
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| (noun) the fur of a rabbit | Synonyms: rabbit |
| lappet | (noun) medium-sized hairy moths; larvae are lappet caterpillars | Synonyms: lappet moth |
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| (noun) a small lap on a garment or headdress | - |
| (noun) a fleshy wrinkled and often brightly colored fold of skin hanging from the neck or throat of certain birds (chickens and turkeys) or lizards | Synonyms: wattle |
| lapping | (noun) covering with a design in which one element covers a part of another (as with tiles or shingles) | Synonyms: imbrication, overlapping |
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| lapse | (noun) a mistake resulting from inattention | Synonyms: oversight |
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| (noun) a failure to maintain a higher state | Synonyms: backsliding, lapsing, relapse, relapsing, reversion, reverting |
| (noun) a break or intermission in the occurrence of something | - |
| (verb) go back to bad behavior | Synonyms: fall back, recidivate, regress, relapse, retrogress |
| (verb) drop to a lower level, as in one's morals or standards | Synonyms: backslide |
| (verb) end, at least for a long time | - |
| (verb) for time to move forward | Synonyms: elapse, glide by, go along, go by, pass, slide by, slip away, slip by |
| (verb) pass into a specified state or condition; sink into | Synonyms: pass, sink |
| (verb) let slip | - |
| lapsed | (adjective) no longer active or practicing | Synonyms: nonchurchgoing |
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| lapsing | (noun) a failure to maintain a higher state | Synonyms: backsliding, lapse, relapse, relapsing, reversion, reverting |
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| laptop | (noun) a portable computer small enough to use in your lap | Synonyms: laptop computer |
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| lapwing | (noun) large crested Old World plover having wattles and spurs | Synonyms: green plover, peewit, pewit |
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| larboard | (adjective) located on the left side of a ship or aircraft | Synonyms: port |
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| (noun) the left side of a ship or aircraft to someone who is aboard and facing the bow or nose | Synonyms: port |
| larcener | (noun) a person who commits larceny | Synonyms: larcenist |
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| larcenist | (noun) a person who commits larceny | Synonyms: larcener |
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| larcenous | (noun) having a disposition to steal | Synonyms: thievishness |
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| larceny | (noun) the act of taking something from someone unlawfully | Synonyms: stealing, theft, thievery, thieving |
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| larch | (noun) any of numerous conifers of the genus Larix all having deciduous needlelike leaves | Synonyms: larch tree |
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| (noun) wood of a larch tree | - |
| lard | (noun) soft white semisolid fat obtained by rendering the fatty tissue of the hog | - |
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| (verb) add details to | Synonyms: aggrandise, aggrandize, blow up, dramatise, dramatize, embellish, embroider, pad |
| (verb) prepare or cook with lard | - |
| larder | (noun) a small storeroom for storing foods or wines | Synonyms: buttery, pantry |
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| (noun) a supply of food especially for a household | - |
| large | (adjective) above average in size or number or quantity or magnitude or extent | Synonyms: big |
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| (adjective) having broad power and range and scope | - |
| (adjective) conspicuous in position or importance | Synonyms: big, prominent |
| (adjective) generous and understanding and tolerant | Synonyms: big, magnanimous |
| (adjective) in an advanced stage of pregnancy | Synonyms: big, enceinte, expectant, gravid, great, heavy, with child |
| (adjective) ostentatiously lofty in style | Synonyms: bombastic, declamatory, orotund, tumid, turgid |
| (adjective) fairly large or important in effect; influential | - |
| (noun) a garment size for a large person | - |
| (adverb) with the wind abaft the beam | - |
| (adverb) at a distance, wide of something (as of a mark) | - |
| (adverb) in a boastful manner | Synonyms: big, boastfully, vauntingly |
| largely | (adverb) in large part; mainly or chiefly | Synonyms: for the most part, mostly |
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| (adverb) on a large scale | - |
| largemouth | (noun) a large black bass; the angle of the jaw falls behind the eye | Synonyms: largemouth bass, largemouth black bass, largemouthed bass, largemouthed black bass, Micropterus salmoides |
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| largeness | (noun) the property of having a relatively great size | Synonyms: bigness |
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| (noun) large or extensive in breadth or importance or comprehensiveness | Synonyms: extensiveness |
| (noun) the quality of being pretentious (behaving or speaking in such a manner as to create a false appearance of great importance or worth) | Synonyms: pretension, pretentiousness |
| (noun) the capacity to understand a broad range of topics | Synonyms: breadth, comprehensiveness |
| larger | (adjective) large or big relative to something else | Synonyms: bigger |
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| largess | (noun) liberality in bestowing gifts; extremely liberal and generous of spirit | Synonyms: largesse, magnanimity, munificence, openhandedness |
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| (noun) a gift or money given (as for service or out of benevolence); usually given ostentatiously | Synonyms: largesse |
| largesse | (noun) liberality in bestowing gifts; extremely liberal and generous of spirit | Synonyms: largess, magnanimity, munificence, openhandedness |
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| (noun) a gift or money given (as for service or out of benevolence); usually given ostentatiously | Synonyms: largess |
| larghetto | (adjective) (of tempo) less slow and broad than largo | - |
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| (noun) (music) a composition or passage played in a slow tempo slightly faster than largo but slower than adagio | - |
| larghissimo | (adjective) (of tempo) as slow and broad as possible | - |
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| largish | (adjective) somewhat large | Synonyms: biggish |
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| largo | (adjective) very slow in tempo and broad in manner | - |
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| (noun) (music) a composition or passage that is to be performed in a slow and dignified manner | - |
| (adverb) slowly and broadly | - |
| lari | (noun) the basic unit of money in Georgia | - |
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| lariat | (noun) a long noosed rope used to catch animals | Synonyms: lasso, reata, riata |
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| larid | (noun) long-winged web-footed aquatic bird of the gull family | - |
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| lark | (noun) any carefree episode | Synonyms: escapade |
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| (noun) any of numerous predominantly Old World birds noted for their singing | - |
| (noun) a songbird that lives mainly on the ground in open country; has streaky brown plumage | Synonyms: pipit, titlark |
| (noun) North American songbirds having a yellow breast | Synonyms: meadowlark |
| (verb) play boisterously | Synonyms: cavort, disport, frisk, frolic, gambol, lark about, rollick, romp, run around, skylark, sport |
| larkspur | (noun) any of numerous cultivated plants of the genus Delphinium | - |
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| larn | (verb) gain knowledge or skills | Synonyms: acquire, learn |
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| larrup | (verb) give a spanking to; subject to a spanking | Synonyms: paddle, spank |
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| larva | (noun) the immature free-living form of most invertebrates and amphibians and fish which at hatching from the egg is fundamentally unlike its parent and must metamorphose | - |
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| larvacean | (noun) any member of the class Larvacea | - |
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| larvacide | (noun) an insecticide that kills the larvae of insects | - |
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| larval | (adjective) relating to or typical of a larva | - |
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| (adjective) immature of its kind; especially being or characteristic of immature insects in the newly hatched wormlike feeding stage | - |
| larvicide | (noun) a chemical used to kill larval pests | - |
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| laryngeal | (adjective) of or relating to or situated in the larynx | - |
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| laryngectomy | (noun) surgical removal of part or all of the larynx (usually to treat cancer of the larynx) | - |
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| laryngismus | (noun) laryngeal spasm caused by the sudden contraction of laryngeal muscles | - |
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| laryngitis | (noun) inflammation of the mucous membrane of the larynx; characterized by hoarseness or loss of voice and coughing | - |
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| laryngopharyngeal | (adjective) of or relating to the larynx and pharynx | - |
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| laryngopharyngitis | (noun) inflammation of the larynx and pharynx | - |
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| laryngopharynx | (noun) the lower part of the pharynx | - |
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| laryngoscope | (noun) a medical instrument for examining the larynx | - |
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| laryngospasm | (noun) a closure of the larynx that blocks the passage of air to the lungs | - |
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| laryngostenosis | (noun) abnormal narrowing of the larynx | - |
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| laryngotracheobronchitis | (noun) inflammation of the larynx and trachea and bronchial passageways | - |
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| larynx | (noun) a cartilaginous structure at the top of the trachea; contains elastic vocal cords that are the source of the vocal tone in speech | Synonyms: voice box |
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| lasagna | (noun) very wide flat strips of pasta | Synonyms: lasagne |
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| (noun) baked dish of layers of lasagna pasta with sauce and cheese and meat or vegetables | Synonyms: lasagne |
| lasagne | (noun) very wide flat strips of pasta | Synonyms: lasagna |
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| (noun) baked dish of layers of lasagna pasta with sauce and cheese and meat or vegetables | Synonyms: lasagna |
| lascar | (noun) an East Indian sailor | - |
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| lascivious | (adjective) driven by lust; preoccupied with or exhibiting lustful desires | Synonyms: lewd, libidinous, lustful |
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| lasciviously | (adverb) in a lascivious manner | Synonyms: salaciously |
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| lasciviousness | (noun) feeling morbid sexual desire or a propensity to lewdness | Synonyms: carnality, lubricity, prurience, pruriency |
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| laser | (noun) an acronym for light amplification by stimulated emission of radiation; an optical device that produces an intense monochromatic beam of coherent light | Synonyms: optical maser |
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| lash | (noun) a quick blow delivered with a whip or whiplike object | Synonyms: whip, whiplash |
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| (noun) leather strip that forms the flexible part of a whip | Synonyms: thong |
| (noun) any of the short curved hairs that grow from the edges of the eyelids | Synonyms: cilium, eyelash |
| (verb) strike as if by whipping | Synonyms: whip |
| (verb) beat severely with a whip or rod | Synonyms: flog, lather, slash, strap, trounce, welt, whip |
| (verb) bind with a rope, chain, or cord | - |
| (verb) lash or flick about sharply | - |
| lasher | (noun) a driver who urges the animals on with lashes of a whip | - |
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| lashing | (adjective) violently urging on by whipping or flogging | - |
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| (noun) beating with a whip or strap or rope as a form of punishment | Synonyms: flagellation, flogging, tanning, whipping |
| (noun) rope that is used for fastening something to something else | - |
| lashings | (noun) a large number or amount | Synonyms: dozens, gobs, heaps, loads, lots, oodles, piles, rafts, scads, scores, slews, stacks, tons, wads |
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| lasiocampid | (noun) medium-sized stout-bodied neutral-colored moths with comb-like antennae | Synonyms: lasiocampid moth |
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| lass | (noun) a girl or young woman who is unmarried | Synonyms: jeune fille, lassie, young girl |
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| lassie | (noun) a girl or young woman who is unmarried | Synonyms: jeune fille, lass, young girl |
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| lassitude | (noun) weakness characterized by a lack of vitality or energy | Synonyms: inanition, lethargy, slackness |
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| (noun) a feeling of lack of interest or energy | Synonyms: languor, listlessness |
| (noun) a state of comatose torpor (as found in sleeping sickness) | Synonyms: lethargy, sluggishness |
| lasso | (noun) a long noosed rope used to catch animals | Synonyms: lariat, reata, riata |
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| (verb) catch with a lasso | Synonyms: rope |
| last | (adjective) coming after all others in time or space or degree or being the only one remaining | - |
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| (adjective) occurring at or forming an end or termination | Synonyms: concluding, final, terminal |
| (adjective) occurring at the time of death | - |
| (adjective) highest in extent or degree | - |
| (adjective) immediately past | - |
| (adjective) conclusive in a process or progression | Synonyms: final, net |
| (adjective) not to be altered or undone | Synonyms: final |
| (adjective) most unlikely or unsuitable | - |
| (adjective) lowest in rank or importance | Synonyms: last-place, lowest |
| (noun) a person's dying act; the final thing a person can do | - |
| (noun) holding device shaped like a human foot that is used to fashion or repair shoes | Synonyms: cobbler's last, shoemaker's last |
| (noun) the final stage or concluding parts of an event or occurrence | Synonyms: end |
| (noun) a unit of capacity for grain equal to 80 bushels | - |
| (noun) a unit of weight equal to 4,000 pounds | - |
| (noun) the last or lowest in an ordering or series | - |
| (noun) the temporal end; the concluding time | Synonyms: close, conclusion, finale, finis, finish, stopping point |
| (noun) the time at which life ends; continuing until dead | Synonyms: death |
| (adverb) most recently | - |
| (adverb) the item at the end | Synonyms: finally, in conclusion, lastly |
| (verb) persist for a specified period of time | Synonyms: endure |
| (verb) continue to live and avoid dying | Synonyms: endure, go, hold out, hold up, live, live on, survive |
| lasting | (adjective) continuing or enduring without marked change in status or condition or place | Synonyms: permanent |
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| (adjective) retained; not shed | Synonyms: persistent |
| (adjective) existing for a long time | Synonyms: durable, long-lasting, long-lived |
| (adjective) lasting a long time without change | - |
| lastingly | (adverb) in an enduring or permanent manner | - |
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| lastingness | (noun) permanence by virtue of the power to resist stress or force | Synonyms: durability, enduringness, strength |
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| lastly | (adverb) the item at the end | Synonyms: finally, in conclusion, last |
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| lat | (noun) a broad flat muscle on either side of the back | Synonyms: latissimus dorsi |
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| latakia | (noun) aromatic Turkish tobacco | - |
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| latanier | (noun) fan palms of the southern United States and the Caribbean region | Synonyms: latanier palm |
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| latch | (noun) catch for fastening a door or gate; a bar that can be lowered or slid into a groove | - |
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| (noun) spring-loaded doorlock that can only be opened from the outside with a key | Synonyms: door latch |
| (verb) fasten with a latch | - |
| latchet | (noun) a leather strap or thong used to attach a sandal or shoe to the foot | - |
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| latchkey | (noun) key for raising or drawing back a latch or opening an outside door | - |
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| latchstring | (noun) opener consisting of a string that can be passed through a hole in a door for raising the latch from outside | - |
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| late | (adjective) being or occurring at an advanced period of time or after a usual or expected time | - |
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| (adjective) of a later stage in the development of a language or literature; used especially of dead languages | - |
| (adjective) at or toward an end or late period or stage of development | Synonyms: later |
| (adjective) having died recently | - |
| (adjective) of the immediate past or just previous to the present time | Synonyms: recent |
| (adjective) after the expected or usual time; delayed | Synonyms: belated, tardy |
| (adjective) (used especially of persons) of the immediate past | Synonyms: former, previous |
| (adverb) later than usual or than expected | Synonyms: belatedly, tardily |
| (adverb) to an advanced time | Synonyms: deep |
| (adverb) at an advanced age or stage | - |
| (adverb) in the recent past | Synonyms: lately, latterly, of late, recently |
| latecomer | (noun) someone who arrives late | - |
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| lateen | (adjective) rigged with a triangular (lateen) sail | Synonyms: lateen-rigged |
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| (noun) a triangular fore-and-aft sail used especially in the Mediterranean | Synonyms: lateen sail |
| lately | (adverb) in the recent past | Synonyms: late, latterly, of late, recently |
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| latency | (noun) the state of being not yet evident or active | - |
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| (noun) the time that elapses between a stimulus and the response to it | Synonyms: latent period, reaction time, response time |
| (noun) (computer science) the time it takes for a specific block of data on a data track to rotate around to the read/write head | Synonyms: rotational latency |
| lateness | (noun) quality of coming late or later in time | - |
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| latent | (adjective) (pathology) not presently active | - |
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| (adjective) potentially existing but not presently evident or realized | - |
| later | (adjective) at or toward an end or late period or stage of development | Synonyms: late |
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| (adjective) coming at a subsequent time or stage | Synonyms: posterior, ulterior |
| (adverb) happening at a time subsequent to a reference time | Synonyms: after, afterward, afterwards, later on, subsequently |
| (adverb) at some eventual time in the future | Synonyms: by and by |
| (adverb) comparative of the adverb `late' | - |
| lateral | (adjective) lying away from the median and sagittal plane of a body | - |
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| (adjective) situated at or extending to the side | Synonyms: sidelong |
| (noun) a pass to a receiver upfield from the passer | Synonyms: lateral pass |
| lateralisation | (noun) localization of function on either the right or left sides of the brain | Synonyms: laterality, lateralization |
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| laterality | (noun) superior development of one side of the body | Synonyms: dominance |
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| (noun) the property of using one hand more than the other | Synonyms: handedness |
| (noun) localization of function on either the right or left sides of the brain | Synonyms: lateralisation, lateralization |
| lateralization | (noun) localization of function on either the right or left sides of the brain | Synonyms: lateralisation, laterality |
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| lateralize | (verb) move or displace to one side so as to make lateral | - |
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| laterally | (adverb) in a lateral direction or location | - |
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| (adverb) to or by or from the side | - |
| latergram | (noun) a photo to be posted to Instagram at a later date | - |
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| laterite | (noun) a red soil produced by rock decay; contains insoluble deposits of ferric and aluminum oxides | - |
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| latest | (adjective) up to the immediate present; most recent or most up-to-date | Synonyms: up-to-the-minute |
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| (adjective) in the current fashion or style | Synonyms: a la mode, in style, in vogue, modish |
| (noun) the most recent news or development | - |