Side
English
Noun
Side (plural Sides)- 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.
- A region in a specified position with respect to something.
- Meet me on the north side of the monument.
- 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.
- Look on the bright side.
- One set of competitors in a game.
- Which side has kick-off?
- (UK, Australian, Irish, not used in North America) A sports team.
- A group having a particular allegiance in a conflict or competition.
- In the second world war, the Italians were on the side of the Germans.
- (sports, billiards, snooker, pool) Sidespin; english
- He had to put a bit of side on to hit the pink ball
- (UK, Australian, Irish, dated) A television channel, usually as opposed to the one currently being watched (from when there were only two channels).
- I just want to see what's on the other side — James said there was a good film on tonight.
- (US, colloquial) A dish that accompanies the main course; a side dish.
- Do you want a side of cole-slaw with that?
Synonyms
- (bounding straight edge of an object): edge
- (flat surface of an object): face
- (left or right half): half
- (surface of a sheet of paper): page
- (region in a specified position with respect to something):
- (one possible aspect of a concept):
- (set of opponents in a game): team
- (group having a particular allegiance in a war):
- (television channel): channel, station (US)
Derived terms
Verb
Side (third-person singular simple present Sides, present participle siding, simple past and past participle sided)
- (intransitive) To ally oneself, be in an alliance, usually with "with" or rarely "in with"
- Which will you side with, good or evil?
- 1958 Archer Fullingim, The Kountze [Texas] News, August 28, 1958:
- "How does it feel...to...side in with those who voted against you in 1947?"
Synonyms
- (ally oneself):
- take side
Derived terms
Thesaurus
Anschauung, Olympian detachment, Olympian loftiness, actor, adjoin, affectation, affiliation, aggressive self-confidence, air line, airs, ancillary, angle, angle of vision, antagonist, antihero, apparentation, arrogance, arrogantness, aspect, assumption of superiority, attitude, auxiliary, avert, axis, aye, backhand, backhanded, bank, basis, be partial to, bear off, beeline, befringe, bevel, bezel, bind, birth, bit, bit part, blood, bloodline, bluff, bluster, bluster and bluff, blustering, board, boast, boastfulness, boasting, bombast, book, border, borders, bordure, bound, boundaries, boundary, brag, braggadocio, braggartism, bragging, branch, bravado, breakaway group, breed, brim, brink, brow, bullying, bumptiousness, bustle, camp, carry away, carry off, cast, casual, caucus, cause, character, cheek by jowl, chestiness, chord, chute, circuitous, clad, coast, cockiness, common ancestry, con, conceit, conceitedness, condescendence, condescension, configuration, consanguinity, continuity, cue, deflectional, delocalize, derivation, descent, deviant, deviative, devious, diagonal, diameter, digressive, direct line, direction, directrix, dislodge, displace, disposition, distaff side, divagational, divergent, division, domineering, domineeringness, draw aside, ease off, easy slope, edge, edge off, edges, effect, eidolon, enframe, ethnic group, excursive, extra, extraction, eye, face, facet, faction, family, fanfaronade, fashion, fat part, favor, featheredge, feature, feeder, female line, figure, filiation, five, flange, flank, flanking, flanks, fleam, flurry, fluster, fly off, footing, form, frame, frame of reference, framework, fringe, fuss, gasconade, gasconism, gee, gentle slope, gestalt, glacis, glance, glance off, glancing, go off, grade, gradient, great-circle course, guise, hand, hanging gardens, haughtiness, haughty airs, hauteur, haw, head off, heavy, hectoring, helicline, hem, hero, heroics, heroine, high horse, highfaluting ways, hillside, hoity-toitiness, hoity-toity, house, image, imago, immodesty, impression, incidental, inclination, incline, inclined plane, inconsequential, inconsiderable, indirect, ingenue, insignificant, insolence, interest, interest group, intimidation, jactation, jactitation, jib, join up with, jointly, labellum, labium, labrum, lap, lateral, launching ramp, lay aside, lead, lead role, leading lady, leading man, leading woman, ledge, lee, leeward, left-handed, lesser, libretto, light, likeness, limb, limbus, limits, line, line of descent, lineage, lineaments, lines, lip, list, loftiness, lofty airs, look, make way for, male line, manhandle, manner, march, marge, margin, marginal, marginate, margins, mental outlook, minor, minority group, move, move aside, nay, next-beside, nine, no, normal, oblique, obtrusiveness, occasional, odd, off, offshoot, opinion, out-of-the-way, outlook, overbearing pride, overbearingness, overweening pride, part, part-time, party, patronization, patronizing, patronizing attitude, perimeter, periphery, perkiness, perpendicular, person, personage, pertness, phase, phasis, philosophy, phylum, piece, pitch, place, plane, playbook, point of view, political party, position, posture, prefer, pressure group, pretension, pretensions, pretentiousness, pride, pro, protagonist, proudness, purfle, purl, purse-pride, put aside, race, radius, radius vector, ragged edge, ramp, rant, reference, reference system, regard, relocate, remove, respect, right line, rim, rodomontade, role, scarp, scenario, scene plot, school, score, script, secant, secondary, sect, sector, seed, seeming, segment, self-assertiveness, self-conceit, selvage, semblance, send, sept, set aside, set off, shape, sheer off, shelving beach, shift, shooting script, shore, shortcut, shove aside, show preference, shunt, shy, shy off, side with, sideline, sideling, sidelong, sides, sidestep, sidetrack, sideward, sidewards, sideway, sideways, sidewise, sidle, sight, silent majority, simulacrum, sinister, sinistral, situation, skin, skirt, skirting, slant, slope, soubrette, spare, spear side, spindle side, splinter, splinter group, splutter, sputter, squad, stance, stand, standpoint, steep slope, steer clear of, stem, step aside, stiff climb, stiff-necked pride, stirps, stock, straight, straight course, straight line, straight part, straight stretch, straightaway, strain, streamline, string, style, subordinate, subsidiary, succession, superbia, support, supporting character, supporting role, surface, swagger, swank, swashbucklery, swelled head, swelled-headedness, switch, sword side, system, take away, take sides, take sides with, talus, tangent, tangential, team, team up with, text, the affirmative, the negative, thirteen, throw in with, title role, together, toploftiness, total effect, transversal, trim, turn aside, turn away, turn back, twist, unimportant, universe, uppishness, uppityness, vain pretensions, vanity, vaporing, vaunt, vauntery, vaunting, vector, veer off, verge, view, viewpoint, villain, vocal minority, walk-on, walking part, weather, windward, wing, wise
Pronunciation
Etymology
From Old English sīde, from Proto-Germanic *sīdōn.
Translations
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Statistics
- Most common English words before 1923: full · country · course · #221: side · small · cannot · father
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Finnish
(index si)
Noun
Side
Etymology
Formed from the root of the verb sitoa with the suffix -e.
Pronunciation
- IPA: [ˈside̞(ʔ)]
- Hyphenation: si‧de
Declension
Declension of Side (type hame)
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Synonyms
- (sanitary towel): terveysside
- (ligament): ligamentti
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Latin
Verb
sīde
- second-person singular present active imperative of sīdō
Norwegian
Noun
Side m.
Etymology
Old English
Adverb
sīde
Noun
sīde f.
- side
Etymology 1
From the adjective sīd
Etymology 2
Proto-Germanic *sīdōn, whence also Old High German sīta
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