'Side by side' definitions:
Definition of 'side by side'
From: WordNet
adjective
Nearest in space or position; immediately adjoining without intervening space; "had adjacent rooms"; "in the next room"; "the person sitting next to me"; "our rooms were side by side" [syn: adjacent, next, side by side(p)]
adjective
Closely related or associated; "a city in which communism and democracy had to live side by side"
Definition of 'Side by 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]
Words containing 'Side by side'
- By the side of,
- 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