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American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition

1. n. Mathematics A line bounding a plane figure.
2. n. Mathematics A surface bounding a solid figure.
3. n. A surface of an object, especially a surface joining a top and bottom: the four sides of a box.
4. n. A surface of an object that extends more or less perpendicularly from an observer standing in front: the side of the ship.
5. n. Either of the two surfaces of a flat object: the front side of a piece of paper; the two sides of a record.
6. n. The part within an object or area to the left or right of the observer or of its vertical axis.
7. n. The left or right half of the trunk of a human or animal body: always sleeps on his side; a side of beef.
8. n. The space immediately next to someone: stood at her father's side.
9. n. The space immediately next to something. Often used in combination: courtside; dockside.
10. n. One of two or more contrasted parts or places within an area, identified by its location with respect to a center: the north side of the park.
11. n. An area separated from another area by an intervening feature, such as a line or barrier: on this side of the Atlantic; the district on the other side of the railroad tracks.
12. n. One of two or more opposing individuals, groups, teams, or sets of opinions.
13. n. One of the positions maintained in a dispute or debate. See Synonyms at phase.
14. n. A distinct aspect: the shy side of his personality.
15. n. Line of descent: my aunt on my mother's side.
16. n. An incomplete script that shows the lines and cues of a single performer only. Often used in the plural.
17. n. Chiefly British Affected superiority; arrogance.
18. adj. Located on a side: a side door.
19. adj. From or to one side; oblique: a side view.
20. adj. Minor; incidental: a side interest.
21. adj. In addition to the main part; supplementary: a side benefit.
22. v. To provide sides or siding for: side a frame house with aluminum.
23. v. To be positioned next to: a couch that is sided by low tables.
24. v. To be in agreement with; support.
25. v. To align oneself in a disagreement: sided with the conservatives in Congress; siding against the bill.
26. idiom. on the side In addition to the main portion: coleslaw on the side.
27. idiom. on the side In addition to the main occupation or activity: did some consulting work on the side.
28. idiom. side by side Next to each other; close together.
29. idiom. this side of Informal Verging on; short of: shady deals that were just this side of criminal.

Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

1. n. One of the two terminal surfaces, margins, or lines of an object or a space situated laterally to its front or rear aspect; a part lying on the right or the left hand of an observer, with reference to a definite point of view: as, the sides of a building (in contradistinction to its front and rear or back, or to its ends); the sides of a map or of a bed (distinguished from the top and bottom, or from the head and foot, respectively).
2. n. Specifically, with reference to an animal body:
3. n. Either half of the body, right or left, which lies on either hand of the vertical median longitudinal plane; the entirety of any lateral part or region: as, the right side; the left side.
4. n. The whole or a part of the body in front of or behind a vertical transverse plane: as, the front side; the hinder side; the dorsal side.
5. n. A part of the body lying laterally with reference to any given or assumed axis, and opposed to another similar or corresponding part: as, the front or back side of the arm.
6. n. A surface or extent of any body, or part of any body, that is external or internal, considered with reference to its opposite: as, the inner or outer side. See inside, outside.
7. n. Especially, that part of the trunk of an animal which lies or extends between the shoulder and the hip, and particularly the surface of such part; the lateral region or superficies of the chest and belly.
8. n. One of the two most extensive surfaces of anything, being neither top or bottom, nor end, nor edge or border. [Since every organism, like any other solid, has three dimensions, to the extent of which in opposite directions side may be applied, it follows that there are three pairs of sides, the word having thus three definitions; a fourth sense is that which relates to the exterior and the (often hollow) interior; a fifth is a definite restriction of right and left sides; and a sixth is a loose derived application of the word, without reference to any definite axes or planes.]
9. n. One of the continuous surfaces of an object limited by terminal lines; one of two or more bounding or investing surfaces; a superficial limit or confine, either external or internal: as, the six sides of a cube (but in geometry the word is not thus used for face, but as synonymous with edge); the side of a hill or mountain (hill side, mountain -side); the upper and under sides of a plank; the right and wrong sides of a fabric or garment (see phrase below); the sides of a cavern or a tunnel. The word side may be used either of all the bounding surfaces of an object, as with certain prisms, crystals, and geometrical figures, or as exclusive of parts that may be called top, bottom, edge, or end, as with a cubical box, a plank, etc.
10. n. One of the extended marginal parts or courses of a surface or a plane figure; one of any number of distinct terminal confines or lateral divisions of a surface contiguous to or conterminous with another surface: as, the opposite sides of a road or a river; the east and west sides of the ocean; all sides of a field. The outer parts of an oblong or an irregular surface may all be called sides, or distinguished as the long and short sides, or as sides and ends, according to occasion. Side in this sense is more comprehensive than margin, edge, border, or verge (commonly used in defining it), since it may be used so as to include a larger extent of contiguous surface than any of these words. Thus, the sides of a room may be all the parts of its floor-space not comprised in a central part reserved or differentiated in some special way. The sides of a table are those marginal parts upon which food is served. The east and west sides of a continent may constitute jointly the whole of it, or may consist of larger or smaller marginal strips or divisions, according as they are considered as separated by a mesial line or by some intervening region. The amount of latitude with which the word may be used in particular cases does not admit of definitive discrimination; but there is usually no difficulty in determining the intention of a writer or speaker in his employment of it.
11. n. Position or place with reference to an intermediate line or area; a space or stretch divided from another by the limit or course of something: preceded by on and followed by of, either expressed or (sometimes) understood: as, a region on both sides of a river; we shall not meet again this side the grave.
12. n. A part of space or a range of thought extending away from a central point; any part of a surrounding region or outlook; lateral view or direction; point of compass: as, there are obstacles on every side; to view a proposition from all sides.
13. n. An aspect or part of anything viewed as distinct from or contrasted with another or others; a separate phase; an opposed surface or view (as seen in the compounds inside and outside): as, the side of the moon seen from the earth; a character of many sides; to study all sides of a question; that side of the subject has been fully heard.
14. n. Part or position with reference to any line of division or separation; particular standing on a subject; point of view: as, to take the winning side in politics, or one's side of a dispute; there are faults on both sides.
15. n. A party or body separated from another in opinion, interest, or action; an opposing section or division; a set of antagonists: as, to choose sides for a game or contest of any kind; different sides in religion or politics.
16. n. A divisional line of descent; course of descent through a single ancestor: chiefly with reference to parentage: as, relatives on the paternal or the maternal side; to be well born on the mother's side.
17. n. Respect; regard.
18. n. In technical uses:
19. n. One of the halves of a slaughtered animal, divided through the spine: as, a side of beef or mutton.
20. n. Specifically, the thin part of the side of a hog's carcass; the flank of a hog: as, to live on side or side-meat.
21. n. One half of a tanned hide or skin divided on a medial longitudinal line through the neck and butt. Compare diagram of tanned skin under leather.
22. n. plural The white fur from the sides of the skin of a rabbit.
23. n. Of cloth, the right or dressed side.
24. n. In billiards, a bias or spinning motion given to a ball by striking it sidewise: in American billiards called English.
25. n. In heraldry, a bearing consisting of a part of the field cut off palewise, either on the dexter or sinister part: it should not exceed one sixth of the field, and is usually smaller than that.
26. n. One surface of one fold of a paper; a page.
27. n. In geometry, a line bounding a superficial figure, whether the latter be considered by itself or be the face of a solid. Sense 3, above, common in ordinary language, is strictly excluded from mathematics, for the sake of definiteness.
28. n. In arithmetic and algebra, the root or base of a power.
29. n. In algebra, position in an equation either preceding or following the sign of equality.
30. n. A pretentious or supercilious manner; swagger.
31. Being at or on one side; lateral.
32. Being from or toward one side; oblique; indirect; collateral: as, a side view; a side blow; a side issue.
33. To take part with, or the part of, another or others; place one's self on the same side in action or opinion, as against opposition or any adverse force; concur actively: commonly followed by with.
34. To take or choose sides; divide on one side and the other; separate in opposition.
35. In ship- and boat-building, to have a breadth of the amount stated, as a piece of timber: as, it sides 14 inches.
36. To be, stand, or move by the side of; have or take position beside; come alongside of.
37. To be on the same side with, physically or morally; be at or on the side of; hence, to countenance or support.
38. To stand on the same level with; be equal to in position or rank; keep abreast of; match; rival.
39. To place or range on a side; determine the side or party of.
40. To flatten off a side or sides of (timber) by hewing it with a side-ax or broadax, or by sawing.
41. To cut into sides; cut apart and trim the sides of, as a slaughtered animal; also, to carve for the table: as, to side a hog.
42. To push aside.
43. To place at one side; set aside.
44. Wide; large; long; far-reaching.
45. Far; distant.
46. Widely; wide; far.
47. n. In golf, the two players playing together in a best-ball match, a threesome, a foursome, or a four-ball match.
48. n. In geometry: One of the determining straights of a polygram.
49. To cultivate alongside of, as a row of cotton.

Wiktionary

1. n. A bounding straight edge of a two-dimensional shape.
2. n. A flat surface of a three-dimensional object; a face.
3. n. One half (left or right, top or bottom, front or back, etc.) of something or someone.
4. n. A region in a specified position with respect to something.
5. n. One surface of a sheet of paper (used instead of "page", which can mean one or both surfaces.)
6. n. One possible aspect of a concept.
7. n. One set of competitors in a game.
8. n. UK, Australia, Ireland A sports team.
9. n. A group having a particular allegiance in a conflict or competition.
10. n. sports, billiards, snooker, pool Sidespin; english
11. n. UK, Australia, Ireland, dated A television channel, usually as opposed to the one currently being watched (from when there were only two channels).
12. n. US, colloquial A dish that accompanies the main course; a side dish.
13. v. intransitive To ally oneself, be in an alliance, usually with "with" or rarely "in with"
14. v. transitive, obsolete To be or stand at the side of; to be on the side toward.
15. v. transitive, obsolete To suit; to pair; to match.
16. v. transitive, shipbuilding To work (a timber or rib) to a certain thickness by trimming the sides.
17. v. transitive To furnish with a siding.

GNU Webster's 1913

1. n. The margin, edge, verge, or border of a surface; especially (when the thing spoken of is somewhat oblong in shape), one of the longer edges as distinguished from the shorter edges, called ends; a bounding line of a geometrical figure
2. n. Any outer portion of a thing considered apart from, and yet in relation to, the rest; ; also, any part or position viewed as opposite to or contrasted with another.
3. n. One of the halves of the body, of an animals or man, on either side of the mesial plane; or that which pertains to such a half
4. n. The right or left part of the wall or trunk of the body.
5. n. A slope or declivity, as of a hill, considered as opposed to another slope over the ridge.
6. n. The position of a person or party regarded as opposed to another person or party, whether as a rival or a foe; a body of advocates or partisans; a party; hence, the interest or cause which one maintains against another; a doctrine or view opposed to another.
7. n. A line of descent traced through one parent as distinguished from that traced through another.
8. n. Fig.: Aspect or part regarded as contrasted with some other.
9. adj. Of or pertaining to a side, or the sides; being on the side, or toward the side; lateral.
10. adj. Hence, indirect; oblique; collateral; incidental.
11. adj. Obs. or Scot. Long; large; extensive.
12. v. obsolete To lean on one side.
13. v. To embrace the opinions of one party, or engage in its interest, in opposition to another party; to take sides.
14. v. obsolete To be or stand at the side of; to be on the side toward.
15. v. obsolete To suit; to pair; to match.
16. v. (Shipbuilding) To work (a timber or rib) to a certain thickness by trimming the sides.
17. v. To furnish with a siding.

WordNet 3.0

1. n. an extended outer surface of an object
2. n. a lengthwise dressed half of an animal's carcass used for food
3. n. an elevated geological formation
4. n. (sports) the spin given to a ball by striking it on one side or releasing it with a sharp twist
5. n. a family line of descent
6. n. an opinion that is held in opposition to another in an argument or dispute
7. adj. located on a side
8. n. an aspect of something (as contrasted with some other implied aspect)
9. n. one of two or more contesting groups
10. v. take sides for or against
11. n. a surface forming part of the outside of an object
12. n. a line segment forming part of the perimeter of a plane figure
13. n. a place within a region identified relative to a center or reference location
14. n. either the left or right half of a body