side
IPA: sˈaɪd
noun
- A bounding straight edge of a two-dimensional shape.
- A flat surface of a three-dimensional object; a face.
- One half (left or right, top or bottom, front or back, etc.) of something or someone.
- A region in a specified position with respect to something.
- The portion of the human torso usually covered by the arms when they are not raised; the areas on the left and right between the belly or chest and the back.
- One surface of a sheet of paper (used instead of "page", which can mean one or both surfaces.)
- One possible aspect of a concept, person, or thing.
- One set of competitors in a game.
- (UK, Australia, Ireland) A sports team.
- A group of morris dancers who perform together.
- A group having a particular allegiance in a conflict or competition.
- (music) A recorded piece of music; a record, especially in jazz.
- (sports, billiards, snooker, pool) Sidespin; english
- (Britain, Australia, Ireland, dated) A television channel, usually as opposed to the one currently being watched (from when there were only two channels).
- (US, colloquial) A dish that accompanies the main course; a side dish.
- A line of descent traced through a particular parent, as distinguished from that traced through another.
- (baseball) The batters faced in an inning by a particular pitcher.
- (slang, dated, uncountable) An unjustified air of self-importance.
- (drama) A written monologue or part of a scene to be read by an actor at an audition.
- (LGBT, slang) A man who prefers not to engage in anal sex during same-sex sexual activity.
- (mathematics, obsolete) A root.
- An ancient city, archaeological site, and modern town in modern Antalya province, Turkey, on a small peninsula on the Mediterranean coast of Anatolia, settled by Greeks from Cyme.
verb
- (intransitive) To ally oneself, be in an alliance, usually with "with" or rarely "in with"
- To lean on one side.
- (transitive, obsolete) To be or stand at the side of; to be on the side toward.
- (transitive, obsolete) To suit; to pair; to match.
- (transitive, shipbuilding) To work (a timber or rib) to a certain thickness by trimming the sides.
- (transitive) To furnish with a siding.
- (transitive, cooking) To provide with, as a side or accompaniment.
- To clear, tidy or sort.
adjective
- Being on the left or right, or toward the left or right; lateral.
- Indirect; oblique; incidental.
- (UK archaic, dialectal, Northern England, Scotland) Wide; large; long, pendulous, hanging low, trailing; far-reaching.
- (Scotland) Far; distant.
adverb
- (UK dialectal) Widely; wide; far.
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Examples of "side" in Sentences
- First off, Office 2010 and 2007 * can* be installed side by side�
- [Footnote: Can they have mistaken the ISIPIONE of the fifth side for the word Isidore?] _Fourth side_.
- 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_."
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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_.
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