Converse of object

• cut: Cut any lateral shoots back flush with the stem from which they grow.

• do: I used to do forward laterals, but they gave me so much pain - am I losing anything by not doing them?

• leave: Her suggestions for birth positions ( left lateral ) were in opposition to others ' suggestions ( supported squat ).

• provide: The Company has also stated that it will review the cost of providing these external laterals.

• have: The eastern upright was mortised into position and had an external lateral brace to the base plate.

Adjective modifier

• more: We should be far more lateral thinking than we are.

• external: The eastern upright was mortised into position and had an external lateral brace to the base plate.

• long: Prune the long straggly laterals which bore fruit in previous years and also the central uprights to prevent the tree getting too tall.

Preposition: on

• cassette: Mark lateral on the cassette with a lead L/R marker.

Modifying Another Word

• even: Rather than the ongoing entrenched ' no surrender ' stances Mr Anthony felt that ' some radical, even lateral thinking was long overdue.

• very: I tend to be a very lateral thinker and therefore hope to attract a similar type of thinker.

Modifies a noun

• sclerosis: Many people with this form of MND may develop amyotrophic lateral sclerosis later.

• thinking: The solution came through lateral thinking - I was driving at the time.

• cortex: The most conspicuous result is activation of lateral frontal cortex ipsilateral to the direction of attention.

• ventricle: Loss of white matter in posterior, superior brain adjacent to lateral ventricles.

• moraine: Note the lateral moraines around this end of the lake.

• malleolus: Comparison of two conservative methods of treating an isolated fracture of the lateral malleolus.

Noun used with modifier

• volcano: Volcano lateral collapses also produce giant landslide deposits and leave lateral collapse scars.

• relict: Cosmogenic exposure ages from relict lateral moraines overridden by the Fennoscandian ice sheet in northern Sweden.

• multi: In the run up to December the multi lateral system went through a process of recalibrating our ambitions.