side
/saɪd/ · noun
Meaning
- A bounding straight edge of a two-dimensional shape.
- A flat surface of a three-dimensional object; a face.
- One half (left or right, top or bottom, front or back, etc.) of something or someone.
- A region in a specified position with respect to something.
- 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.
- One surface of a sheet of paper (used instead of "page", which can mean one or both surfaces.)
- To ally oneself, be in an alliance, usually with "with" or rarely "in with"
- To lean on one side.
- To be or stand at the side of; to be on the side toward.
- To suit; to pair; to match.
- To work (a timber or rib) to a certain thickness by trimming the sides.
- To furnish with a siding.
- Being on the left or right, or toward the left or right; lateral.
- Indirect; oblique; incidental.
- To clear, tidy or sort.
- Wide; large; long, pendulous, hanging low, trailing; far-reaching.
- Far; distant.
- Widely; wide; far.
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