side
Being on the left or right, or toward the left or right; lateral.
Adjective
- Being on the left or right, or toward the left or right; lateral.
- One mighty squadron with a side wind sped. - 1667, John Dryden, Annus Mirabilis: The Year of Wonders, 1666. […], London: […] Henry Herringman, […], →OCLC, (please specify the stanza number):
- Indirect; oblique; incidental.
- a side issue; a side view or remark
- The law hath no side respect to their persons. - [1594], Richard Hooker, edited by J[ohn] S[penser], Of the Lawes of Ecclesiastical Politie, […], London: […] Iohn Windet, […], →OCLC, (please specify the page):
Origin
Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *seh₁-der. Proto-Germanic *sīdaz Proto-Germanic *sīdǭ Old English sīde Middle English side English side From Middle English side, from Old English sīde (“side, flank”), from Proto-Germanic *sīdǭ (“side, flank, edge, shore”), derived from *sīdaz, probably from Proto-Indo-European *seh₁- (“long, lasting”). Cognate with Saterland Frisian Siede (“side”), West Frisian side (“side”), Dutch zijde, zij (“side”), German Low German Sied (“side”), German Seite (“side”), Danish, Norwegian Bokmål, and Norwegian Nynorsk side (“side”), Swedish sida (“side”). The LGBTQ slang sense was coined by sex therapist and author Joe Kort in 2010 and popularized in 2013. The sense was coined by analogy with top and bottom and based on the metaphor of a box which has a top, bottom, and sides.
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Adjective Northern England, Scotland
- Wide; large; long, pendulous, hanging low, trailing; far-reaching.
- But when he perceaved that the sayd Pryest could not pourge himself of the foresayd crime he prively payed him his quarters wages before hande and suffered hym to departe without farther tryall of the sayd cryme: and...
- Hiz gooun had syde sleeuez dooun to midlegge, slit from the shooulder too the hand, & lined with white cotten. - 1575, Robert Laneham, “The auncient Minstrell described”, in F. J. Furnivall, editor, Robert Laneham’s...
- What doe we make dost thou aske? why we make faces for feare: such as if thy mortall eyes could behold, would make thee water the long seames of thy side slops […] - c. 1590 (date written), G[eorge] P[eele], The Old...
- Far; distant.
Origin
From Middle English side, syde, syd, from Old English sīd (“wide, broad, spacious, ample, extensive, vast, far-reaching”), from Proto-West Germanic *sīd, from Proto-Germanic *sīdaz (“drooping, hanging, low, excessive, extra”), from Proto-Indo-European *sēy- (“to send, throw, drop, sow, deposit”). Cognate with obsolete Dutch zijd (“wide, vast”), Low German sied (“low”), Swedish sid (“long, hanging down”), Icelandic síður (“low hanging, long”).
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- Widely; wide; far.
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- A bounding straight edge of a two-dimensional shape.
- A square has four sides.
- A flat surface of a three-dimensional object; a face.
- A cube has six sides.
- One half (left or right, top or bottom, front or back, etc.) of something or someone.
- Which side of the tray shall I put it on? The patient was bleeding on the right side.
- We expressed our readiness, and in ten minutes were in the station wagon, rolling rapidly down the long drive, for it was then after nine.[…]As we reached the lodge we heard the whistle, and we backed up against one...
- The slightest effort made the patient cough. He would stand leaning on a stick and holding a hand to his side, and when the paroxysm had passed it left him shaking. - 1918, W[illiam] B[abington] Maxwell, chapter XXIII,...
- A region in a specified position with respect to something.
- Meet me on the north side of the monument.
- Orion hit a rabbit once; but though sore wounded it got to the bury, and, struggling in, the arrow caught the side of the hole and was drawn out. Indeed, a nail filed sharp is not of much avail as an arrowhead; you must...
- 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.
- Meronyms: flank, loin; latus, lumbus
- I generally sleep on my side.
- Roll the patient onto the left side so that head, shoulders, and torso move at the same time without twisting. - 2006, American Academy of Orthopaedic Surgeons, Emergency Care and Transportation of the Sick and Injured...
- One surface of a sheet of paper (used instead of "page", which can mean one or both surfaces.)
- John wrote 15 sides for his essay!
- One possible aspect of a concept, person, or thing.
- Look on the bright side.
- She has a mean side (to her).
- One set of competitors in a game.
- Which side has kick-off?
- A sports team.
- Newly promoted, they were top of the First Division and unbeaten when they took on a Manchester United side that had been revitalized by a new manager,[…]. - 1988, Ken Jones with Pat Welton Crown, Soccer skills &...
- It was no less than Valencia deserved after dominating possession in the final 20 minutes although Chelsea defended resolutely and restricted the Spanish side to shooting from long range. - 2011 September 28, Jon Smith,...
- Initially, the English, Welsh, Scots and Irish unions refused to send national sides, preferring instead to send touring sides like the Barbarians, the Penguins, the Co-Optimists, the Wolfhounds, Crawshays Welsh, and...
- A group of morris dancers who perform together.
- A group having a particular allegiance in a conflict or competition.
- there are two sides to every question
- Although there are two sides to every story, the fallacy that they are inevitably equally ethical is called bothsidesism.
- In the Second World War, the Italians were on the side of the Germans until Italy switched sides in 1943.
- A recorded piece of music; a record, especially in jazz.
- But Bechet chafed under even the loose discipline of the Ellington group, and left. Through these years he wandered, making only a few sides, at the moment when jazz records were beginning to flood onto the market. -...
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A-side away side backside beachside beckside bent-side blindside bright side B-side buy side curbside dark side dark side of the Force dayside distaff side downside driverside east side eastside epistle side foreside gospel side hanging side hillside
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airside alongside aside bankside bat for the other side bayside berthside beside besides bit on the side blueside boatside bodyside broadside brookside butter one's bread on both sides catch you on the flip side check side client-side cliffside coastside counterside coverside cradleside
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- To ally oneself, be in an alliance, usually with "with" or rarely "in with"
- Which will you side with, good or evil?
- All rising to great place is by a winding star; and if there be factions, it is good to side a man's self, whilst he is in the rising, and to balance himself when he is placed. - 1597, Francis Bacon, “Of Great Place”,...
- All side in parties, and begin the attack. - 1714, Alexander Pope, “The Rape of the Lock”, in The Works of Mr. Alexander Pope, volume I, London: […] W[illiam] Bowyer, for Bernard Lintot, […], published 1717, →OCLC,...
- To lean on one side.
- To be or stand at the side of; to be on the side toward.
- His blind eye that syded Paridell. - 1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book III, Canto IX”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC, stanza 27:
- To suit; to pair; to match.
- 1660-1667, Edward Hyde, 1st Earl of Clarendon, The Life of Edward Earl of Clarendon He had ure read more , and carried more about him , in his excellent Memory , than any Man I ever knew , my Lord Falkland only excepted...
- To work (a timber or rib) to a certain thickness by trimming the sides.
- To furnish with a siding.
- to side a house
- To provide with, as a side or accompaniment.
- Entrees are sided with a generous portion of vegetables, and some include little surprises […] - 1995, Orange Coast Magazine, volume 11, number 8, page 166:
- A chocolate cakelette, caramel percolating from its warm top, is sided with peanut butter chantilly cream. - 2009 March 14, Corey Mintz, “Stop and cheer chefs' dedication to quality”, in Toronto Star:
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- To clear, tidy or sort.
- Meanwhile I have plenty to employ me, in siding drawers and locked places, which I left in the disgracefullest confusion ; - 1883, Jane Welsh Carlyle, Thomas Carlyle, James Anthony Froude, Letters and Memorials of Jane...
- Now side everything away. The medicines too —put them in the cupboard. - 1897, Sir Hall Caine, The Manxman - Volume 2, page 304:
- As it had done then, Clare's heart, in a constant state of stress these days, missed a beat now, and she turned hastily to the table where she was siding the dinner things, doing her best to hide her expression which...