Side

• POS: Adjective, Noun, Verb (intransitive), Verb (transitive)

CIDE DICTIONARY

Side, n. [AS. sīde; akin to D. zijde, G. seite, OHG. sīta, Icel. sīa, Dan. side, Sw. sida; cf. AS. sīd large, spacious, Icel. sīr long, hanging.].

•  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]
•  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]
•  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.  [1913 Webster]

  "Looking round on every side beheld
  A pathless desert."  [1913 Webster]
•  A slope or declivity, as of a hill, considered as opposed to another slope over the ridge.  [1913 Webster]

  "One of the soldiers with a spear pierced his side."  [1913 Webster]
•  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]

  "Along the side of yon small hill."  [1913 Webster]
•  A line of descent traced through one parent as distinguished from that traced through another.  [1913 Webster]

  "God on our side, doubt not of victory."  [1913 Webster]

  "We have not always been of the . . . same side in politics."  [1913 Webster]

  "Sets the passions on the side of truth."  [1913 Webster]
•  Fig.: Aspect or part regarded as contrasted with some other; as, the bright side of poverty.  [1913 Webster]

  "To sit upon thy father David's throne,
  By mother's side thy father."  [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.

Side, a. 

•  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."  [1913 Webster]
•  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."  [1913 Webster]
•  Long; large; extensive.  Shak.  [1913 Webster]

  "His gown had side sleeves down to mid leg."  [1913 Webster]

  "To insure a side-box station at half price."  [1913 Webster]

Side, v. i. 

•  To lean on one side.  Bacon.  [1913 Webster]
•  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."  [1913 Webster]

Side, v. t. 

•  To be or stand at the side of; to be on the side toward.  [1913 Webster]

  "His blind eye that sided Paridell."  [1913 Webster]
•  To suit; to pair; to match.  Clarendon.  [1913 Webster]
•  To work (a timber or rib) to a certain thickness by trimming the sides.  [1913 Webster]
•  To furnish with a siding; as, to side a house.  [1913 Webster]

OXFORD DICTIONARY

Side, n. & v.
--n.
1 a each of the more or less flat surfaces bounding an object (a cube has six sides; this side up). b a more or less vertical inner or outer plane or surface (the side of a house; a mountainside). c such a vertical lateral surface or plane as distinct from the top or bottom, front or back, or ends (at the side of the house).
2 a the half of a person or animal that is on the right or the left, esp. of the torso (has a pain in his right side). b the left or right half or a specified part of a thing, area, building, etc. (put the box on that side). c (often in comb.) a position next to a person or thing (grave-side; seaside; stood at my side). d a specified direction relating to a person or thing (on the north side of; came from all sides). e half of a butchered carcass (a side of bacon).
3 a either surface of a thing regarded as having two surfaces. b the amount of writing needed to fill one side of a sheet of paper (write three sides).
4 any of several aspects of a question, character, etc. (many sides to his character; look on the bright side).
5 a each of two sets of opponents in war, politics, games, etc. (the side that bats first; much to be said on both sides). b a cause or philosophical position etc. regarded as being in conflict with another (on the side of right).
6 a a part or region near the edge and remote from the centre (at the side of the room). b (attrib.) a subordinate, peripheral, or detached part (a side-road; a side-table).
7 a each of the bounding lines of a plane rectilinear figure (a hexagon has six sides). b each of two quantities stated to be equal in an equation.
8 a position nearer or farther than, or right or left of, a dividing line (on this side of the Alps; on the other side of the road).
9 a line of hereditary descent through the father or the mother.
10 (in full side spin) Brit. a spinning motion given to a billiard-ball etc. by hitting it on one side, not centrally.
11 Brit. sl. boastfulness; swagger (has no side about him).
12 Brit. colloq. a television channel (shall we try another side?).
--v.intr. (usu. foll. by with) take part or be on the same side as a disputant etc. (sided with his father).

Idiom

by the side of
1 close to.
2 compared with.
from side to side
1 right across.
2 alternately each way from a central line. let the side down fail one's colleagues, esp. by frustrating their efforts or embarrassing them. on one side 1 not in the main or central position.
2 aside (took him on one side to explain). on the ... side fairly, somewhat (qualifying an adjective: on the high side).
on the side
1 as a sideline; in addition to one's regular work etc.
2 secretly or illicitly.
3 US as a side dish. on this side of the grave in life. side-arms swords, bayonets, or pistols. side-band a range of frequencies near the carrier frequency of a radio wave, concerned in modulation. side-bet a bet between opponents, esp. in card-games, over and above the ordinary stakes. side-bone either of the small forked bones under the wings of poultry. side by side standing close together, esp. for mutual support.
side-car
1 a small car for a passenger or passengers attached to the side of a motor cycle.
2 a cocktail of orange liqueur, lemon juice, and brandy.
3 a jaunting car. side-chapel a chapel in the aisle or at the side of a church. side dish an extra dish subsidiary to the main course.
side-door
1 a door in or at the side of a building.
2 an indirect means of access. side-drum a small double-headed drum in a jazz or military band or in an orchestra (orig. hung at the drummer's side). side-effect a secondary, usu. undesirable, effect. side-glance a sideways or brief glance. side-issue a point that distracts attention from what is important. side-note a marginal note. side-on adv. from the side.
--adj.
1 from or towards one side.
2 (of a collision) involving the side of a vehicle. side-road a minor or subsidiary road, esp. joining or diverging from a main road. side-saddle n. a saddle for a woman rider with both feet on the same side of the horse.
--adv. sitting in this position on a horse. side salad a salad served as a side dish. side-seat a seat in a vehicle etc. in which the occupant has his back to the side of the vehicle. side-slip n.
1 a skid.
2 Aeron. a sideways movement instead of forward.
--v.intr.
1 skid.
2 Aeron. move sideways instead of forward. side-splitting causing violent laughter. side-street a minor or subsidiary street.
side-stroke
1 a stroke towards or from a side.
2 an incidental action.
3 a swimming stroke in which the swimmer lies on his or her side.
side-swipe n.
1 a glancing blow along the side.
2 incidental criticism etc.
--v.tr. hit with or as if with a side-swipe. side-table a table placed at the side of a room or apart from the main table. side-trip a minor excursion during a voyage or trip; a detour. side valve a valve in a vehicle engine, operated from the side of the cylinder. side-view
1 a view obtained sideways.
2 a profile. side-wheeler US a steamer with paddle-wheels. side-whiskers whiskers growing on the cheeks.
side wind
1 wind from the side.
2 an indirect agency or influence. take sides support one or other cause etc.

Derivative

sideless adj.

Etymology

OE side f. Gmc

THESAURUS

Side

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

ROGET THESAURUS

Side

Consanguinity

N consanguinity, relationship, kindred, blood, parentage, filiation, affiliation, lineage, agnation, connection, alliance, family connection, family tie, ties of blood, nepotism, kinsman, kinfolk, kith and kin, relation, relative, connection, sibling, sib, next of kin, uncle, aunt, nephew, niece, cousin, cousin- german, first cousin, second cousin, cousin once removed, cousin twice removed, ear relation, distant relation, brother, sister, one's own flesh and blood, family, fraternity, brotherhood, sisterhood, cousinhood, race, stock, generation, sept, stirps, side, strain, breed, clan, tribe, nation, related, akin, consanguineous, of the blood, family, allied, collateral, cognate, agnate, connate, kindred, affiliated, fraternal, intimately related, nearly related, closely related, remotely related, distantly related, allied, german.

Party

N party, faction, side, denomination, communion, set, crew, band, horde, posse, phalanx, family, clan, team, tong, council, community, body, fellowship, sodality, solidarity, confraternity, familistere, familistery, brotherhood, sisterhood, knot, gang, clique, ring, circle, group, crowd, in-crowd, coterie, club, casino, machine, Tammany, Tammany Hall, corporation, corporate body, guild, establishment, company, copartnership, partnership, firm, house, joint concern, joint-stock company, cahoot, combine, trust, society, association, institute, institution, union, trades union, league, syndicate, alliance, Verein, Bund, Zollverein, combination, Turnverein, league offensive and defensive, alliance offensive and defensive, coalition, federation, confederation, confederacy, junto, cabal, camarilla, camorra, brigue, freemasonry, party spirit, Confederates, Conservatives, Democrats, Federalists, Federals, Freemason, Knight Templar, Kuklux, Kuklux Klan, KKK, Liberals, Luddites, Republicans, Socialists, Tories, Whigs staff, dramatis personae, in league, in partnership, in alliance, bonded together, banded together, linked, joined together, embattled, confederated, federative, joint, hand in hand, side by side, shoulder to shoulder, en masse, in the same boat.

Edge

N edge, verge, brink, brow, brim, margin, border, confine, skirt, rim, flange, side, mouth, jaws, chops, chaps, fauces, lip, muzzle, threshold, door, porch, portal, coast, shore, frame, fringe, flounce, frill, list, trimming, edging, skirting, hem, selvedge, welt, furbelow, valance, gimp, border, marginal, skirting, labial, labiated, marginated.

Laterality

N laterality, side, flank, quarter, lee, hand, cheek, jowl, jole, wing, profile, temple, parietes, loin, haunch, hip, beam, gable, gable end, broadside, lee side, points of the compass, East, Orient, Levant, West, orientation, lateral, sidelong, collateral, parietal, flanking, skirting, flanked, sideling, many sided, multilateral, bilateral, trilateral, quadrilateral, Eastern, orient, oriental, Levantine, Western, occidental, Hesperian, sideways, sidelong, broadside on, on one side, abreast, alongside, beside, aside, by the side of, side by side, cheek by jowl, to windward, to leeward, laterally, right and left, on her beam ends, his cheek the may of days outworn.