Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun A line bounding a plane figure.
- noun A surface bounding a solid figure.
- noun A surface of an object, especially a surface joining a top and bottom.
- noun A surface of an object that extends more or less perpendicularly from an observer standing in front.
- noun Either of the two surfaces of a thin, flat object.
- noun The part within an object or area to the left or right of the observer or of its vertical axis.
- noun The left or right half of the trunk of a human or animal body.
- noun The space immediately next to someone.
- noun The space immediately next to something. Often used in combination.
- noun One of two or more contrasted parts or places within an area, identified by its location with respect to a center.
- noun An area separated from another area by an intervening feature, such as a line or barrier.
- noun One of two or more opposing individuals, groups, teams, or sets of opinions.
- noun One of the positions maintained in a dispute or debate.
- noun A distinct aspect.
- noun Line of descent.
- noun An incomplete script that shows the lines and cues of a single performer only.
- noun Chiefly British In billiards, the spin given to a propelled ball by striking it off center.
- adjective Located on a side.
- adjective From or to one side; oblique.
- adjective Minor; incidental.
- adjective In addition to the main part; supplementary.
- intransitive verb To provide sides or siding for.
- intransitive verb To be positioned next to.
- intransitive verb To align oneself in a disagreement.
- idiom (on the side) In addition to the main portion.
- idiom (on the side) In addition to the main occupation or activity.
- idiom (side by side) Next to each other; close together.
- idiom (this side of) Verging on; short of.
from The Century Dictionary.
- Widely; wide; far.
- noun In golf, the two players playing together in a best-ball match, a threesome, a foursome, or a four-ball match.
- noun In geometry: One of the determining straights of a polygram.
- To cultivate alongside of, as a row of cotton.
- 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.
- To take or choose sides; divide on one side and the other; separate in opposition.
- In ship- and boat-building, to have a breadth of the amount stated, as a piece of timber: as, it sides 14 inches.
- To be, stand, or move by the side of; have or take position beside; come alongside of.
- To be on the same side with, physically or morally; be at or on the side of; hence, to countenance or support.
- To stand on the same level with; be equal to in position or rank; keep abreast of; match; rival.
- To place or range on a side; determine the side or party of.
- To flatten off a side or sides of (timber) by hewing it with a side-ax or broadax, or by sawing.
- 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. - To push aside.
- To place at one side; set aside.
- Wide; large; long; far-reaching.
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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We will reach the day because of the� nature of the movement that we have in which women� will be sharing space in the political arena side by side� with men to make a better world, not only for women, � but for men, women and children.
Remarks by Bella Abzug at the 42nd Session of the UN Commission on the Status of Women Jewish Women's Archive 2010
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We will reach the day because of the� nature of the movement that we have in which women� will be sharing space in the political arena side by side� with men to make a better world, not only for women, � but for men, women and children.
Remarks by Bella Abzug at the 42nd Session of the UN Commission on the Status of Women Jewish Women's Archive 2010
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There is one side of a cow which is usually called the _milking side_ -- that is the cow's left side -- because, somehow custom has established the practice of milking her from that side.
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Only people who cling to old-fashioned customs still fold over the right side of a visiting-card to show that the card was left _in person_, and also fold over the _left side_ to show that the call was intended for _all_ the women of the household.
Etiquette Agnes H. Morton
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And when Lord Bath ventured to complain to this audacious leader of fashion, that he had a pain in his side, she cried out, "Oh! that cannot be, you have _no side_."
Memoirs of the Jacobites of 1715 and 1745 Volume III. Mrs. Thomson
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On one side its a plaything; they play at being a parliament, and Im neither young enough nor old enough to find amusement in playthings; and on the other side (he stammered) its a means for the coterie of the district to make money.
Chapter V. Part I 1917
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[Footnote: Can they have mistaken the ISIPIONE of the fifth side for the word Isidore?] _Fourth side_.
Stones of Venice [introductions] John Ruskin 1859
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First off, Office 2010 and 2007 * can* be installed side by side�
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First off, Office 2010 and 2007 * can* be installed side by side�
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The eight foundation cards, as they appear in the deal (whether they fall on the corner or on the side packets), are to be at once played in the space reserved for them, and on these may be played any suitable cards which in dealing fall _on either of the four corner packets_; but when a card (otherwise suitable) falls on either of the _side packets_, it may not be played unless the foundation to which it belongs happens to be the one _immediately adjoining the side packet on which that card fell in dealing_.
Lady Cadogan's Illustrated Games of Solitaire or Patience New Revised Edition, including American Games Adelaide Cadogan
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