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On the other side is the personal side, the idea "that you're still driving Late Models and you just want to go to the track with your buddies."

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  1. noun Mathematics A line bounding a plane figure.
  2. noun Mathematics A surface bounding a solid figure.
  3. noun A surface of an object, especially a surface joining a top and bottom: the four sides of a box.
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  • The baby's room was next to mine on one side, and on the other side was the room where mommy and daddy slept.
  • By his side is his servant of fifteen hundred years, and they converse in the Latin that is their comfort, a language forgotten to all but the church. —  FSF,June2006
  • Campion recognised it immediately and his last question about the young man at his side was answered. —  More Work for the Undertaker - Margery Allingham - Campion 13
  • On Tierra's other side was the Tanzinite-Nordain Queen Liana, who wore a scanty affair in a lovely aqua shade. —  Cheyenne McCray - Spellbound.pdf.htm
  • To his other side was an open double doorway, and beyond it a forge. —  TheGlassBooksoftheDreamEaters
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wall ·  end ·  part ·  foot ·  front ·  grind ·  place ·  surface ·  light ·  area

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side:   siding ·  sides ·  sided
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Etymologies (5)

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  1. Middle English, from Old English sīde.

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  1. from Middle English side, syde, rarely sithe, from Anglo-Saxon sīde =Old Saxon sīda =OFries. sīde =Middle Dutch sijde, Dutch zijde =Middle Low German sīde, Low German side, siede =Old High German sīta, sītta, Middle High German sīte, German seite =Icelandic sītha =Swedish sida =Danish side (not recorded in Gothic (Moesogothic)), side; perhaps orig. that which hangs down or is extended, from Anglo-Saxon sīd, long, wide, spacious, =Icelandic sīthr, long, hanging down: see side. Cf. beside, besides.
  2. from side, n.
  3. Early modern English also syde; from Middle English side, syde, syd, from Anglo-Saxon sīd, wide, spacious, =Middle Low German sīt, Low German sied, low, =Icelandic sīthr =Swedish Danish sid, long, hanging down; cf. side, n.
  4. from Middle English side, syde, from Anglo-Saxon sīde (=Middle Low German sīde), widely, from sīd, wide: see side, a.
 

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