Lateral vs. Passage — What's the Difference?

Of, relating to, or situated at or on the side.

The action or process of moving through or past somewhere on the way from one place to another

Of or constituting a change within an organization or hierarchy to a position at a similar level, as in salary or responsibility, to the one being left

A narrow way allowing access between buildings or to different rooms within a building; a passageway

(Linguistics) Of, relating to, or being a sound produced by breath passing along one or both sides of the tongue.

The process of transition from one state to another

A lateral part, projection, passage, or appendage.

A short extract from a book or other printed material

(Football) A lateral pass.

The propagation of microorganisms or cells in a series of host organisms or culture media, so as to maintain them or modify their virulence

(Linguistics) A lateral sound, such as (l).

A movement performed in advanced dressage and classical riding, in which the horse executes a slow elevated trot, giving the impression of dancing.

To execute a lateral pass.

Subject (a strain of microorganisms or cells) to a passage

To pass (the ball) sideways or backward.

Movement from one place to another

To the side; of or pertaining to the side.

The process of elapsing

Situated on one side or other of the body or of an organ, especially in the region furthest from the median plane.

The process of changing from one condition or stage to another; transition

(disease) Affecting the side or sides of the body, or confined to one side of the body.

Enactment into law of a legislative bill.

(physics) Acting or placed at right angles to a line of motion or strain.

A journey, especially one by air or water

(UK) Non-linear or unconventional, as in, lateral thinking.

The right to travel as a passenger, especially on a ship

Pertaining to speech sounds generated by partially blocking the egress of the airstream with the tongue, leaving space on one or both sides of the occlusion for air passage.

The right, permission, or power to come and go freely

An object, such as a passage or a protrusion, that is situated on the side of something else.

A path, channel, or duct through, over, or along which something may pass

(linguistics) A sound produced through lateral pronunciation (such as /l/ in lateral).

A corridor.

(American football) A lateral pass.

An occurrence or event

(business) An employee hired for a position at the same organizational level or salary as their previous position.

Something, such as an exchange of words or blows, that occurs between two persons

To move (oneself or something) in a lateral direction.

A segment of a written work or speech

(American football) To execute a lateral pass.

(Music) A segment of a composition, especially one that demonstrates the virtuousity of the composer or performer

Of or pertaining to the sides; as, the lateral walls of a house; the lateral branches of a tree.

A section of a painting or other piece of artwork; a detail.

Lying at, or extending toward, the side; away from the mesial plane; external; - opposed to mesial.

(Physiology) The process of discharging something from a bodily part, such as evacuation of waste from the bowels.

Directed to the side; as, a lateral view of a thing.

(Medicine) The introduction of an instrument into a bodily cavity.

A short pass to a receiver who is upfield from the passer, i.e. is behind the passer relative to the direction of the passer's goal.

(Obsolete) Death.

A part or extension of something that points sideways, as a drift in a mine that goes to the side from the main one.

A slow cadenced trot in which the horse raises and returns to the ground first one diagonal pair of feet, then the other.

To pass the footbal to a receiver who is behind the passer; to make a lateral pass; as, the ball was lateraled to the fullback, who ran it for a touchdown.

To execute such a trot in dressage.

A pass to a receiver upfield from the passer

To cause (a horse) to execute such a trot in dressage.

Situated at or extending to the side;

A paragraph or section of text or music with particular meaning.

Lying away from the median and sagittal plane of a body;

Part of a path or journey.

An incident or episode.

The official approval of a bill or act by a parliament.

The advance of time.

(art) The use of tight brushwork to link objects in separate spatial plains. Commonly seen in Cubist works.

A passageway or corridor.

(nautical) A strait or other narrow waterway.

(caving) An underground cavity, formed by water or falling rocks, which is much longer than it is wide.

(euphemistic) The vagina.

The act of passing; movement across or through.

The right to pass from one place to another.

A fee paid for passing or for being conveyed between places.

Serial passage.

A gambling game for two players using three dice, in which the object is to throw a double over ten.

(dressage) A movement in classical dressage, in which the horse performs a very collected, energetic, and elevated trot that has a longer period of suspension between each foot fall than a working trot.

(medicine) To pass something, such as a pathogen or stem cell, through a host or medium.

(rare) To make a passage, especially by sea; to cross.

To execute a passage movement.

Of a bird: Less than a year old but living on its own, having left the nest.

The act of passing; transit from one place to another; movement from point to point; a going by, over, across, or through; as, the passage of a man or a carriage; the passage of a ship or a bird; the passage of light; the passage of fluids through the pores or channels of the body.

Transit by means of conveyance; journey, as by water, carriage, car, or the like; travel; right, liberty, or means, of passing; conveyance.

Price paid for the liberty to pass; fare; as, to pay one's passage.

Removal from life; decease; departure; death.

Way; road; path; channel or course through or by which one passes; way of exit or entrance; way of access or transit. Hence, a common avenue to various apartments in a building; a hall; a corridor.

A continuous course, process, or progress; a connected or continuous series; as, the passage of time.

A separate part of a course, process, or series; an occurrence; an incident; an act or deed.

A particular portion constituting a part of something continuous; esp., a portion of a book, speech, or musical composition; a paragraph; a clause.

Reception; currency.

A pass or en encounter; as, a passage at arms.

A movement or an evacuation of the bowels.

In parliamentary proceedings: (a) The course of a proposition (bill, resolution, etc.) through the several stages of consideration and action; as, during its passage through Congress the bill was amended in both Houses. (b) The advancement of a bill or other proposition from one stage to another by an affirmative vote; esp., the final affirmative action of the body upon a proposition; hence, adoption; enactment; as, the passage of the bill to its third reading was delayed.

The act of passing from one state or place to the next

A section of text; particularly a section of medium length

A way through or along which someone or something may pass

The passing of a law by a legislative body

A journey usually by ship;

A short section of a musical composition

A path or channel or duct through or along which something may pass;

A bodily process of passing from one place or stage to another;

The motion of one object relative to another;

The act of passing something to another person