'Side' definitions:
Definition of 'side'
From: WordNet
adjective
Located on a side; "side fences"; "the side porch" [ant: bottom(a), top(a)]
noun
A place within a region identified relative to a center or reference location; "they always sat on the right side of the church"; "he never left my side"
noun
One of two or more contesting groups; "the Confederate side was prepared to attack"
noun
Either the left or right half of a body; "he had a pain in his side"
noun
A surface forming part of the outside of an object; "he examined all sides of the crystal"; "dew dripped from the face of the leaf" [syn: side, face]
noun
An extended outer surface of an object; "he turned the box over to examine the bottom side"; "they painted all four sides of the house"
noun
An aspect of something (as contrasted with some other implied aspect); "he was on the heavy side"; "he is on the purchasing side of the business"; "it brought out his better side"
noun
A line segment forming part of the perimeter of a plane figure; "the hypotenuse of a right triangle is always the longest side"
noun
A family line of descent; "he gets his brains from his father's side"
noun
A lengthwise dressed half of an animal's carcass used for food [syn: side, side of meat]
noun
An opinion that is held in opposition to another in an argument or dispute; "there are two sides to every question" [syn: side, position]
noun
An elevated geological formation; "he climbed the steep slope"; "the house was built on the side of a mountain" [syn: slope, incline, side]
noun
(sports) the spin given to a ball by striking it on one side or releasing it with a sharp twist [syn: English, side]
verb
Take sides for or against; "Who are you widing with?"; "I"m siding against the current candidate"
Definition of 'Side'
From: GCIDE
- Side \Side\, v. i. [imp. & p. p. Sided; p. pr. & vb. n. Siding.]
- 1. To lean on one side. [Obs.] --Bacon. [1913 Webster]
- 2. To embrace the opinions of one party, or engage in its interest, in opposition to another party; to take sides; as, to side with the ministerial party. [1913 Webster]
- All side in parties, and begin the attack. --Pope. [1913 Webster]
Definition of 'Side'
From: GCIDE
- Side \Side\, v. t.
- 1. To be or stand at the side of; to be on the side toward. [Obs.] [1913 Webster]
- His blind eye that sided Paridell. --Spenser. [1913 Webster]
- 2. To suit; to pair; to match. [Obs.] --Clarendon. [1913 Webster]
- 3. (Shipbuilding) To work (a timber or rib) to a certain thickness by trimming the sides. [1913 Webster]
- 4. To furnish with a siding; as, to side a house. [1913 Webster]
Definition of 'Side'
From: GCIDE
- Side \Side\, a.
- 1. Of or pertaining to a side, or the sides; being on the side, or toward the side; lateral. [1913 Webster]
- One mighty squadron with a side wind sped. --Dryden. [1913 Webster]
- 2. Hence, indirect; oblique; collateral; incidental; as, a side issue; a side view or remark. [1913 Webster]
- The law hath no side respect to their persons. --Hooker. [1913 Webster]
- 3. [AS. s[imac]d. Cf Side, n.] Long; large; extensive. [Obs. or Scot.] --Shak. [1913 Webster]
- His gown had side sleeves down to mid leg. --Laneham. [1913 Webster]
- Side action, in breech-loading firearms, a mechanism for operating the breech block, which is moved by a lever that turns sidewise.
- Side arms, weapons worn at the side, as sword, bayonet, pistols, etc.
- Side ax, an ax of which the handle is bent to one side.
- Side-bar rule (Eng. Law.), a rule authorized by the courts to be granted by their officers as a matter of course, without formal application being made to them in open court; -- so called because anciently moved for by the attorneys at side bar, that is, informally. --Burril.
- Side box, a box or inclosed seat on the side of a theater. [1913 Webster]
- To insure a side-box station at half price. --Cowper. [1913 Webster]
- Side chain, (a) one of two safety chains connecting a tender with a locomotive, at the sides. (b) (Chem.) a chain of atoms attached to the main structure of a large molecule, especially of a polymer.
- Side cut, a canal or road branching out from the main one. [U.S.]
- Side dish, one of the dishes subordinate to the main course.
- Side glance, a glance or brief look to one side.
- Side hook (Carp.), a notched piece of wood for clamping a board to something, as a bench.
- Side lever, a working beam of a side-lever engine.
- Side-lever engine, a marine steam engine having a working beam of each side of the cylinder, near the bottom of the engine, communicating motion to a crank that is above them.
- Side pipe (Steam Engine), a steam or exhaust pipe connecting the upper and lower steam chests of the cylinder of a beam engine.
- Side plane, a plane in which the cutting edge of the iron is at the side of the stock.
- Side posts (Carp.), posts in a truss, usually placed in pairs, each post set at the same distance from the middle of the truss, for supporting the principal rafters, hanging the tiebeam, etc.
- Side rod. (a) One of the rods which connect the piston-rod crosshead with the side levers, in a side-lever engine. (b) See Parallel rod, under Parallel.
- Side screw (Firearms), one of the screws by which the lock is secured to the side of a firearm stock.
- Side table, a table placed either against the wall or aside from the principal table.
- Side tool (Mach.), a cutting tool, used in a lathe or planer, having the cutting edge at the side instead of at the point.
- Side wind, a wind from one side; hence, an indirect attack, or indirect means. --Wright. [1913 Webster]
Definition of 'Side'
From: GCIDE
- Side \Side\ (s[imac]d), n. [AS. s[imac]de; akin to D. zijde, G. seite, OHG. s[imac]ta, Icel. s[imac]?a, Dan. side, Sw. sida; cf. AS. s[imac]d large, spacious, Icel. s[imac]?r long, hanging.]
- 1. The margin, edge, verge, or border of a surface; especially (when the thing spoken of is somewhat oblong in shape), one of the longer edges as distinguished from the shorter edges, called ends; a bounding line of a geometrical figure; as, the side of a field, of a square or triangle, of a river, of a road, etc. [1913 Webster]
- 3. Any outer portion of a thing considered apart from, and yet in relation to, the rest; as, the upper side of a sphere; also, any part or position viewed as opposite to or contrasted with another; as, this or that side. [1913 Webster]
- Looking round on every side beheld A pathless desert. --Milton. [1913 Webster]
- 4. (a) One of the halves of the body, of an animals or man, on either side of the mesial plane; or that which pertains to such a half; as, a side of beef; a side of sole leather. (b) The right or left part of the wall or trunk of the body; as, a pain in the side. [1913 Webster]
- One of the soldiers with a spear pierced his side. --John xix. 34. [1913 Webster]
- 5. A slope or declivity, as of a hill, considered as opposed to another slope over the ridge. [1913 Webster]
- Along the side of yon small hill. --Milton. [1913 Webster]
- 6. The position of a person or party regarded as opposed to another person or party, whether as a rival or a foe; a body of advocates or partisans; a party; hence, the interest or cause which one maintains against another; a doctrine or view opposed to another. [1913 Webster]
- God on our side, doubt not of victory. --Shak. [1913 Webster]
- We have not always been of the . . . same side in politics. --Landor. [1913 Webster]
- Sets the passions on the side of truth. --Pope. [1913 Webster]
- 7. A line of descent traced through one parent as distinguished from that traced through another. [1913 Webster]
- To sit upon thy father David's throne, By mother's side thy father. --Milton. [1913 Webster]
- 8. Fig.: Aspect or part regarded as contrasted with some other; as, the bright side of poverty. [1913 Webster]
- By the side of, close at hand; near to.
- Exterior side. (Fort.) See Exterior, and Illust. of Ravelin.
- Interior side (Fort.), the line drawn from the center of one bastion to that of the next, or the line curtain produced to the two oblique radii in front. --H. L. Scott.
- Side by side, close together and abreast; in company or along with.
- To choose sides, to select those who shall compete, as in a game, on either side.
- To take sides, to attach one's self to, or give assistance to, one of two opposing sides or parties. [1913 Webster]
Synonyms of 'side'
From: Moby Thesaurus
- actor,
- adjoin,
- affectation,
- affiliation,
- aggressive self-confidence,
- air line,
- airs,
- ancillary,
- angle,
- angle of vision,
- Anschauung,
- 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,
- Olympian detachment,
- Olympian loftiness,
- 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
Words containing 'Side'
- By the side of,
- Side by side,
- Sided,
- Siding,
- on the side,
- other side,
- side with,
- side-to-side,
- Blind side,
- Crown side,
- Decanal side,
- East Side,
- Epistle side,
- Exterior side,
- Flesh side,
- Grain side,
- Hanging side,
- Ingle side,
- Interior side,
- Land side,
- Leere side,
- On the shady side of,
- Shady Side,
- Side action,
- Side arms,
- Side ax,
- Side box,
- Side chain,
- Side cut,
- Side dish,
- Side glance,
- Side grafting,
- Side hook,
- Side lever,
- Side line,
- Side pipe,
- Side plane,
- Side posts,
- Side rod,
- Side screw,
- Side slip,
- Side table,
- Side tool,
- Side wind,
- Spear side,
- Spindle side,
- Sunny Side,
- To choose sides,
- To take sides,
- Weak side,
- Wind side,
- bright side,
- credit side,
- debit side,
- distaff side,
- flip side,
- lee side,
- leeward side,
- many sided,
- north side,
- one sided,
- railroad siding,
- side arm,
- side chair,
- side chapel,
- side door,
- side drum,
- side effect,
- side entrance,
- side horse,
- side issue,
- side judge,
- side of bacon,
- side of beef,
- side of meat,
- side of pork,
- side order,
- side pocket,
- side road,
- side street,
- side view,
- side yard,
- south side,
- sword side,
- take sides,
- top side,
- two sided,
- upper side,
- weather side,
- west side,
- windward side,
- Bank-sided,
- East Side, PA,
- Helena West Side,
- Iron-sided,
- Jack-on-both-sides,
- Low side window,
- Many-sided,
- Shady Side, MD,
- Side-slip,
- Side-taking,
- Side-wheel,
- Slab-sided,
- Sunny Side, GA,
- Three-sided,
- To be on the long side of the market,
- To laugh out of the other side of the mouth,
- Two-sided,
- Wall-sided,
- West Side Highway,
- broad-side,
- eight-sided,
- eleven-sided,
- five-sided,
- four-sided,
- nine-sided,
- one-sided,
- one-sidedly,
- right-side-out,
- right-side-up,
- seven-sided,
- side opera glass,
- side-glance,
- side-look,
- side-wheeler,
- side-whiskers,
- six-sided,
- steep-sided,
- sunny-side up,
- ten-sided,
- to look on the bright side,
- twelve-sided,
- wrong-side-out,
- Helena West Side, MT,
- Side-bar rule,
- Side-chain theory,
- Side-lever engine,
- To talk out of both sides of one's mouth,
- West Side Highway, WA,
- rufous-sided towhee,
- side-blotched lizard,
- side-wheel duck,
- supply-side economics,
- The Mysticete or whalebone whales having no true teeth after birth but with a series of plates of whalebone see Baleen hanging down from the upper jaw on each side thus making a strainer through which they receive the small animals upon which they feed