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side(3) (iou)

side noun.
[Old English side = Old Frisian, Old Saxon side, Old High German sita (Dutch zijde, zij, German Seite), Old Norse siea, from Germanic noun prob. from an adjective meaning 'extending lengthways, long, deep, low' (cf. SIDE adjective). Rel. to Old English siT late.]
I.
Either of the two surfaces or parts of the human trunk between the left or right shoulder and the corresponding hip; the analogous part of an animal's body. OE.
L. Ellmann One doll lay with her head to the side.
B. Keaton A miniature comedian..making the ladies hold their sides. Premiere She swivels around,..stroking her sides with her hands.
b. Either of the lateral halves of the body of a butchered animal, or an animal prepared for the table. ME.
N. Freeling A whole side of smoked salmon already sliced.
A position or place closely adjacent to a person or thing. Only in phrs. & as 2nd elem. of comb. OE.
M. L. King I left the courtroom with my wife at my side.
II.
Each of the two (or more) longer, usually vertical, surfaces of an object that are contrasted with the ends or the top and bottom; either of the two receding surfaces of an object that are contrasted with the front and back; a part of the surface of a round object having a particular aspect. OE.
Lancet Catheters should be inserted from the side of the nose. B. Vine His room was..on the side of the house that overlooked the meadow.
b. Each of the straight lines or flat surfaces that form or bound a figure or object. LME.
c. Math. A number raised to a power, a root. Also, the number of terms taken when an arithmetical progression is summed, in relation to the sum. M17-M19.
The part of the hull of a boat extending from stem to stern between the gunwale and the water-line. OE.
The slope of a hill or bank, esp. one extending for a considerable distance. ME.
Goldsmith It is..overlooked by tremendous mountains; their sides covered with snow.
b. The outskirts of a wood, town, etc. Now rare or obsolete. ME.
The bank or shore of a river, lake, sea, etc.; the land or district bordering this. ME.
A. A. Milne Eeyore..stood by the side of the stream.
Either of the two surfaces of a thin object. LME.
b. Either of the two surfaces of a sheet of paper; an amount of Writing sufficient to occupy a side; Theatrical a page of typescript containing the words of a particular character together with the cue words. M16.
Bookman Some forty-seven pages, printed on one side only.
c. Either of the two faces of a gramophone record; each of two or more tracks on the same length of tape; slang a recording. M20.
Jazz Journal International: Marshmallow came from a memorable series of sides made for Prestige.
d. Each of two or more available Television channels. Freq. in the Other side. colloq. L20.
My Guy Monthly You want..Top of the Pops but your little brother's demanding the Other side.
Any of several aspects or views of a question, character, etc. LME.
M. Laski You can't help seeing the funny side. M. Frayn This display of determination is a new side to your character.
A more or less vertical surface that encloses or bounds a space or hollow. L15.
J. Johnston He blew into his cocoa and watched the rings expand..to the sides of the mug.
Tanning. Either of the two pieces produced by cutting an animal's hide along the back. M18.
III.
A place or direction relative to a particular person, thing, or point; a point of the compass (freq. with specifying word). OE.
W. Gass He would see them from all sides, observe from every angle. Holiday Which? The eastern side of Chianti is the hilliest.
Either of two directions to either hand of an object, place, or imaginary line; the position implied in this; the space lying to either hand of, or in any direction from, a specified object, place, etc.; a part of a place or thing lying in one or Other direction from a centre line; a part near the edge and away from the middle of an area. Also with ellipsis of of in this side, that side, the Other side. OE.
Milton Before the Gates there sat On either side a formidable shape. K. H. Digby The men..on one side of the church and the women on the Other. Browning That's all we may expect of man, this side The grave. E. Peacock She was on the less enviable side of fifty. J. Wain He wanted a table at the side of the room.
A portion of a building allocated to a particular category of person or a particular purpose; a division of a school devoted to a particular class of studies (cf. modern side s.v. MODERN adjective). ME.
b. Either of two parts of a choir singing antiphonally. LME-L16.
c. In Cambridge University, the body of students under the supervision of a particular tutor in a college. M19.
The line or limit to which something extends in opposite directions. ME.
Tennyson The mirror crack'd from side to side.
A region, a district; the inhabitants of a region. Now rare exc. in adjectival & adverbial phrs. with preceding place-name, and as 2nd elem. of comb. LME.
E. M. Forster Jolly good poems, I'm getting published Bombay side. B. Granger A childhood on the streets of Chicago's South Side.
Math. Either of two quantities or expressions stated to be equal by an equation and separated by an equals sign. E18.
ellipt. A side dish, an entree. rare. M19.
A spinning motion given to a ball in billiards, snooker, etc., by striking it to the left or right of centre. L19.
IV.
a. The action, attitude, etc., of one person or a set of people in relation to another or others. ME.
Thackeray He was, on his side too, very anxious to see Mrs Osborne.
b. Either of two alternative views of a matter. L16.
Scotsman Three Ministers..gave a Press conference..to put their side of the case.
The position or interests of one person, party, etc., in contrast to that of an opposing one. Chiefly in on one's side, take sides, take the side of. ME.
G. Daly In a fight he was a terrific man to have on your side.
Either of two sets of opponents in war, Politics, Games, etc. ME.
T. Hood Which side had won the cricket match.
Kinship or descent through father or mother. ME.
Day Lewis I am of Anglo-Irish stock on both sides of my family.
V. [Perh. a different word.]
Pretentiousness, conceit. slang. L19.
I. Colegate Not that he ever had any side,..even when he was a very important man.
Phrases: a thorn in one's side, a thorn in the side: see THORN noun 1b. blind side: see BLIND adjective. burst one's sides, shake one's sides, split one's sides laugh violently. by the side of (a) close to; (b) compared with. ERR on the right side. ERR on the side of. from side to side (a) across the whole width, right across; (b) alternately in each direction from a central line. have the laugh on one's side: see LAUGH noun. Jack of both sides: see JACK noun1. laugh on the Other side of one's face, laugh on the Other side of one's mouth, laugh on the wrong side of one's face, laugh on the wrong side of one's mouth: see LAUGH verb. lean to one side: see LEAN verb. lee side: see LEE noun1 & adjective. leg side: see LEG noun 4. let the side down fail one's colleagues, esp. by frustrating their efforts or embarrassing them. look on the bright side: see BRIGHT adjective 1b. no side: see NO adjective. on one side (a) not in the central or dominant position; (b) = ASIDE adverb 1, 3, 4. on the right side (of): see RIGHT adjective. on the side tending towards being , somewhat (on the safe side: see SAFE adjective). on the side (a) N. Amer. served separately from the main dish; (b) in addition; surreptitiously, without acknowledgement; illicitly; outside Marriage; (c) in addition to one's regular or ordinary occupation; as a subsidiary source of income (sometimes with implication of irregularity). on the side of the angels in favour of a spiritual interpretation of human Nature; on the side of right despite the risk of unpopularity. on the windy side of: see WINDY adjective1. on the wrong side (of): see WRONG adjective & adverb. on this side (of) (a) short of, lacking; (b) before (a specified date). on this side of the grave, on this side the grave in this life. pipe the side: see PIPE verb1. prompt side: see PROMPT noun. right side: see RIGHT adjective. shake one's sides: see burst one's sides above. short back and sides: see BACK noun1. side by side close together and abreast of each Other; spec. (of people) standing thus, esp. for mutual support. spindle side: see SPINDLE noun & adjective. split one's sides: see burst one's sides above. SUNNY side. take sides support one cause, person, etc., against another or others. the Other side: see Other adjective. the Other side of the coin: see COIN noun 3. the Other side of the hill those aspects of a situation which are unknown at present; the latter part of life; Military the enemy position or activities. the Other side of the shield: see SHIELD noun1. the rough side of one's tongue: see ROUGH adjective. the wrong side of the tracks: see TRACK noun. turn sides to middle cut (a worn sheet) down the middle and resew with the two halves interchanged, so that what were the sides become the middle and the sheet's useful life is extended. two sides of a shield: see SHIELD noun1. weak side: see WEAK adjective.
Attrib. & comb.: In the senses 'situated at or towards the side, fixed or placed at the side', as side-aisle, side-gate, side-rail, side-window, etc.; 'growing out to the side', as side-branch; 'occurring in or affecting the side of the body', as side-stitch; 'directed or tending sideways', as side-blow, side-kick, side-thrust, etc.; 'spoken aside or in an undertone', as side-remark, sidetalk, etc.; 'subsidiary, incidental', as side-result. Special combs., as sideband Telecommunications a band of frequencies above or below a carrier frequency, within which lie the frequencies produced by modulation of the carrier; side-bar (a) Law (now Hist.) a former bar in the Outer Parliament House, Edinburgh, and in Westminster Hall, London; (b) a lateral bar, a longitudinal side-piece, as in a saddle, carriage, etc.; (c) side-bar whiskers (US dial.), a man's sideboards; (d) US a short, usu. boxed, article in a newspaper placed alongside a main article and containing additional or explanatory material; (e) (chiefly US) a secondary, additional, or incidental thing; a side-issue; (f) US Law a discussion between the lawyers in a case and the judge out of earshot of the jury; side bend an Exercise movement in which a person bends the upper half of the body to one side while standing (usu. in pl.); side-bet a bet made with another player, esp. at cards, in addition to one's principal bet or one's bet with the house; a bet that does not form part of the game being played; side-bone (a) the part of the pelvis on either side of a bird or fowl which is easily separated from the backbone in carving; (b) a bird's scapula or shoulder-blade; side-box (the occupants of) a box at the side of a theatre; side boy Nautical a boy or man who looks after the man-ropes and attends people coming on board or leaving a ship; sideburn [from BURNSIDE] = SIDEBOARD 4 (usu. in pl.); sideburned adjective having sideburns; side-by-side adjective & noun (designating) a double-barrelled shotgun with barrels mounted side by side; side-chain (a) a chain at the side of a vehicle; (b) Chemistry a group of atoms attached to the principal part of a molecule; side chair an upright wooden chair without arms; side-chapel: in the aisle or at the side of a church; side-coat (a) (now dial.) a long coat, a greatcoat; (b) in pl., long clothes worn by children; side-comb a comb used to secure a woman's hair, esp. at the side of the head; side cut (a) Oil Industry = side stream (b) below; (b) a curve in the side of a ski; side dish a dish served as an accessory to a main course; a dish or plate of the kind used for this purpose; side-door a door in the side of a building, Garden, vehicle, etc.; a door subsidiary to a main door; by a side-door (fig.), indirectly; side drift Mining a horizontal tunnel leading off a main passage; side-drum a small double-headed drum used in military bands, orchestras, and jazz ensembles (orig. hung at the drummer's side); side entry (a) an entrance at the side; an area outside the side-door of a house; (b) Bridge a card providing access to a hand in a suit Other than trumps; side-face (a view or representation of) a person's face in profile; side-foot verb trans. (Amer. Football) kick with the inside of the foot; side frequency Telecommunications a particular frequency in a sideband, in the case of amplitude modulation equal to the carrier frequency plus or minus a particular modulating frequency; side gallery either of the two galleries along the side of the debating chamber of the House of Commons, divided to seat Members and others; side-glance a glance directed sideways; fig. an indirect or passing Reference; sideguard a protective panel along the side of a lorry, below the body; side-head, side-heading a newspaper heading run in at the beginning of a paragraph or placed adjacent to it; sidehill (now US) a hillside; side-hold Mountaineering a hold in which the rock is gripped from the side; side-horse = pommel horse s.v. POMMEL noun; side-issue a subsidiary issue or matter; a point that distracts attention from what is important; side-ladder Nautical allowing access to and from a boat etc. alongside; side lamp a lamp at the side of a guard's van of a train; a sidelight of a motor vehicle; side-land a strip of land along the side of a ploughed field; side lever (a) either of two beams on the sides of some forms of steam engine, which transmit motion from the cross-head of the pistons to the connecting rods; (b) a lever at the side of a rifle for recocking it; side-loader a fork-lift truck in which the fork is at the side of the vehicle; side lobe a lobe in the response or radiation pattern of a Radio aerial Other than the central, or main, lobe; side-lock a lock of hair at the side of the head; side-look an oblique look, a side-glance; side-looking adjective looking sideways; (of radar and sonar) sending a beam sideways and downwards, usu. from an aircraft for the mapping of relief; side meat US salt pork or bacon, usu. cut from the side of the pig; side mill Engineering (a) a circular milling cutter with teeth on its face, so that it cuts in the direction of its axis of rotation; (b) a cylindrical cutter used with its axis parallel to the surface of the workpiece, so that the cutting action occurs along its length; side-necked turtle any of various freshwater turtles of the Families Pelomedusidae and Chelidae, mainly of the southern hemisphere, having a long neck curved round to the side for protection; side-note a note made or placed at the side of a page; side-of-the-mouth adjective delivered in a rough drawling manner; forcefully demotic; side order a side dish; side-partner US colloq. a close associate at work; a colleague; side-piece a piece fixed or attached at one side; side play Mechanics freedom of movement from side to side; side-pocket in the side of a garment, esp. a jacket or coat; side pond, side pound a pond alongside a canal lock such that water can flow between them when the lock is operated; side-post (a) a doorpost (chiefly in biblical allusions); (b) a post supporting a roof away from the centre-line; side reaction a subsidiary chemical reaction taking place in a system at the same time as a more important reaction; side road (a) a minor or subsidiary road; a road leading from or to a main road; (b) spec. (Canad.) in Ontario, a road along the side boundary of a concession; side-rope (a) (obsolete exc. Scot.) a trace for a horse; (b) a rope for climbing up a ship's side; side salad a salad served as a side dish; side-scan, side-scanning adjectives (of sonar and radar) sending a beam sideways (from a ship) or sideways and downwards (from an aircraft); side scraper Archaeology a prehistoric flint implement, usu. made on a broad flake by retouching one of the sides to give a blunt edge useful for scraping tasks; side-screen (a) in landscape painting, a secondary feature set on both sides of the principal to show perspective; (b) a side-curtain of an open motor vehicle; side-seat a seat facing or placed at the side of a vehicle; side-shoot: growing out from the side of a stem; side-split Canad. a split-level house with fewer storeys on one side than the Other; side-splitter a very funny story, farce, etc.; side-splitting adjective causing violent laughter, extremely funny; side-splittingly adverb in a side-splitting way; side-stick Printing (obsolete exc. Hist.) the longer of a pair of wedge-shaped sticks with one side slanting, used in locking up a forme; side-stream (a) a tributary stream, a subsidiary current; side-stream smoke, smoke that passes from a cigarette into the surrounding air, not into the smoker; (b) Oil Industry a fraction drawn off at an intermediate tray in a distillation column; side-street a minor or subsidiary street; side-stroke (a) a swimming stroke in which the swimmer lies on his or her side; (b) a stroke towards or from the side; fig. an incidental action; side suit Cards a suit Other than trumps; a long suit in bridge; side-sway a rolling or swaying motion from side to side in a moving vehicle or a building; side-table: placed next to the wall of a room or at the side of a larger table; side-taking the taking of one side in a dispute etc.; side tone the reproduction of the user's own voice in a telephone receiver; a sound so reproduced; a signal reaching a radiotelephone from itself; side trip a detour, a deviation, an excursion aside from the main journey, esp. for sightseeing; side valve Mechanics a valve that is mounted alongside the cylinder in an internal-combustion engine and opens into a sideways extension of the combustion chamber; side-view a view obtained or taken from the side; a profile; side-view mirror, a mirror at the side of a motor vehicle to give the driver a view behind and to one side of it; side-wheel adjective designating a steamer with paddle-wheels at the sides; side wheeler (a) a side-wheel steamer; (b) Baseball (rare) a side-arm or left-handed pitcher; (c) US a pacing horse with a rolling gait; side-wing (a) Theatrical = WING noun 9c; (b) slang (in pl.) sideburns; side-whiskers: growing on a man's cheeks.

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