side
Part of speech: noun
adj
verb
Morphological type: simple
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Etymology: Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *seh₁-der.
Proto-Germanic *sīdaz
Proto-Germanic *sīdǭ
Old English sīde
Middle English side
English side
From Middle English side, from Old English sīde (“side, flank”), from Proto-Germanic *sīdǭ (“side, flank, edge, shore”), derived from *sīdaz, probably from Proto-Indo-European *seh₁- (“long, lasting”). Cognate with Saterland Frisian Siede (“side”), West Frisian side (“side”), Dutch zijde, zij (“side”), German Low German Sied (“side”), German Seite (“side”), Danish, Norwegian Bokmål, and Norwegian Nynorsk side (“side”), Swedish sida (“side”).
The LGBTQ slang sense was coined by sex therapist and author Joe Kort in 2010 and popularized in 2013. The sense was coined by analogy with top and bottom and based on the metaphor of a box which has a top, bottom, and sides.
Inflected forms:
form: sides
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: more side
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most side
pos: adj
tags: superlative
form: sides
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: siding
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: sided
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: sided
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: A bounding straight edge of a two-dimensional shape.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: A square has four sides.
gloss: A flat surface of a three-dimensional object; a face.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: A cube has six sides.
gloss: One half (left or right, top or bottom, front or back, etc.) of something or someone.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: Which side of the tray shall I put it on?  The patient was bleeding on the right side.
We expressed our readiness, and in ten minutes were in the station wagon, rolling rapidly down the long drive, for it was then after nine.[…]As we reached the lodge we heard the whistle, and we backed up against one side of the platform as the train pulled up at the other.
The slightest effort made the patient cough. He would stand leaning on a stick and holding a hand to his side, and when the paroxysm had passed it left him shaking.
gloss: A region in a specified position with respect to something.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: Meet me on the north side of the monument.
Orion hit a rabbit once; but though sore wounded it got to the bury, and, struggling in, the arrow caught the side of the hole and was drawn out. Indeed, a nail filed sharp is not of much avail as an arrowhead; you must have it barbed, and that was a little beyond our skill.
gloss: 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.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: Meronyms: flank, loin; latus, lumbus
I generally sleep on my side.
Roll the patient onto the left side so that head, shoulders, and torso move at the same time without twisting.
gloss: One surface of a sheet of paper (used instead of "page", which can mean one or both surfaces.)
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: John wrote 15 sides for his essay!
gloss: One possible aspect of a concept, person, or thing.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: Look on the bright side.
She has a mean side (to her).
gloss: One set of competitors in a game.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: Which side has kick-off?
gloss: A sports team.
pos: noun
tags: Australia
Ireland
UK
countable
uncountable
examples: Newly promoted, they were top of the First Division and unbeaten when they took on a Manchester United side that had been revitalized by a new manager,[…].
It was no less than Valencia deserved after dominating possession in the final 20 minutes although Chelsea defended resolutely and restricted the Spanish side to shooting from long range.
Initially, the English, Welsh, Scots and Irish unions refused to send national sides, preferring instead to send touring sides like the Barbarians, the Penguins, the Co-Optimists, the Wolfhounds, Crawshays Welsh, and the Public School Wanderers.
gloss: A group of morris dancers who perform together.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: A group having a particular allegiance in a conflict or competition.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: there are two sides to every question
Although there are two sides to every story, the fallacy that they are inevitably equally ethical is called bothsidesism.
In the Second World War, the Italians were on the side of the Germans until Italy switched sides in 1943.
"Creating artificial rain over the Yellow Sea would help the Chinese side too," the spokesman said Kim told the meeting.
We have not always been of the[…]same side in politics.
sets the passions on the side of truth
gloss: A recorded piece of music; a record, especially in jazz.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: But Bechet chafed under even the loose discipline of the Ellington group, and left. Through these years he wandered, making only a few sides, at the moment when jazz records were beginning to flood onto the market.
gloss: Sidespin; english
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: He had to put a bit of side on to hit the pink ball.
gloss: A television channel, usually as opposed to the one currently being watched (from when there were only two channels).
pos: noun
tags: Australia
Ireland
UK
countable
dated
uncountable
examples: I just want to see what's on the other side — James said there was a good film on tonight.
gloss: A dish that accompanies the main course; a side dish.
pos: noun
tags: Canada
Philippines
US
colloquial
countable
uncountable
examples: Do you want a side of cole-slaw with that?
gloss: A line of descent traced through a particular relative, usually a parent or spouse, as distinguished from that traced through another.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: his mother's side of the family
To sit upon thy father David's throne, / By Mothers side thy father.
Thankfully our son agreed and chose a name which, according to what I have been told is the name of the last in a long line of Rabbis on my wife's side.
gloss: The batters faced in an inning by a particular pitcher.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: Clayton Kershaw struck out the side in the 6th inning.
gloss: An unjustified air of self-importance; a conceited attitude.
pos: noun
tags: dated
slang
uncountable
examples: Indeed, Yeere was rapidly beginning to forget what he had been. One of his own rank and file put the matter brutally when he asked Yeere, in reference to nothing, “And who has been making you a Member of Council, lately? You carry the side of half a dozen of ’em.”
Theobald posed as the most ardent lover imaginable, but, to use the vulgarism for the moment in fashion, it was all “side.”
His manner never had been modest or retiring. Now it was unmistakably swanky; he was putting on side to an extent that made fellows who observed him smile and shrug their shoulders.
gloss: A written monologue or part of a scene to be read by an actor at an audition.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: Some directors use full scripts (book); others use “sides,” which consist of one or two words of the cue and the subsequent full speech of the individual actor.
The short scenes in this book are particularly useful for audition workshops since audition sides are rarely longer than two pages.
gloss: A person who prefers not to engage in anal sex during same-sex sexual activity.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: My boyfriend and I are both sides; we prefer to do oral and other stuff.
gloss: A root.
pos: noun
tags: countable
obsolete
uncountable
examples: And 9 is said to be the Square, 27 the Cube of 3, which is call'd the Side of 9 and 27, &c.
gloss: Being on the left or right, or toward the left or right; lateral.
pos: adj
examples: One mighty squadron with a side wind sped.
gloss: Indirect; oblique; incidental.
pos: adj
examples: a side issue; a side view or remark
The law hath no side respect to their persons.
gloss: To ally oneself, be in an alliance, usually with "with" or rarely "in with"
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
examples: Which will you side with, good or evil?
All rising to great place is by a winding star; and if there be factions, it is good to side a man's self, whilst he is in the rising, and to balance himself when he is placed.
All side in parties, and begin the attack.
How does it feel... to... side in with those who voted against you in 1947?
gloss: To lean on one side.
pos: verb
gloss: To be or stand at the side of; to be on the side toward.
pos: verb
tags: obsolete
transitive
examples: His blind eye that syded Paridell.
gloss: To suit; to pair; to match.
pos: verb
tags: obsolete
transitive
examples: 1660-1667, Edward Hyde, 1st Earl of Clarendon, The Life of Edward Earl of Clarendon
He had ure read more , and carried more about him , in his excellent Memory , than any Man I ever knew , my Lord Falkland only excepted , who I think ided him
gloss: To work (a timber or rib) to a certain thickness by trimming the sides.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
gloss: To furnish with a siding.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: to side a house
gloss: To provide with, as a side or accompaniment.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: Entrees are sided with a generous portion of vegetables, and some include little surprises […]
A chocolate cakelette, caramel percolating from its warm top, is sided with peanut butter chantilly cream.
Related words: alliance
allyl
join in
Derived words: airside
alongside
aside
bankside
bat for the other side
bayside
berthside
beside
besides
bit on the side
blueside
boatside
bodyside
broadside
brookside
butter one's bread on both sides
catch you on the flip side
check side
client-side
cliffside
coastside
counterside
coverside
cradleside
cribside
damside
darkside
dawnside
demand side
dropside
dryside
duskside
err on the side of
err on the side of caution
fellside
fireside
five-a-side
fleetside
flipside
flip side
side to side
frontside
front-side bus
gainside
get on someone's bad side
get on someone's wrong side
get out of bed on the wrong side
get up on the wrong side of bed
get up on the wrong side of the bed
green side
greenside
guide on the side
have the laugh on one's side
have time on one's side
heelside
high side
hindside
hitherside
hullside
Ironside
keep one's side of the bargain
kingside
know which side one's bread is buttered on
landside
laugh on the other side of one's face
laugh on the wrong side of one's face
laugh on the wrong side of one's mouth
laugh out of the other side of one's mouth
leeside
look on the black side
look on the bright side
look on the bright side of it
look on the dark side
look on the dark side of it
look on the gloomy side
look on the positive side
low side
low side window
manisided
many-sided
marshside
midside
myside bias
negative side waterproofing
northside
no side
not be able to hit the broad side of a barn
off-side
one side
on one's side
onside
on someone's good side
on someone's side
on the debit side
on the flip side
on the other side of
on the plus side
on the right side of history
on the safe side
on the shady side of
on the side
on the side of the angels
on the wrong side of history
on the wrong side of the blanket
on this side of
openside
other side
other side of the coin
other side of the tracks
outerside
out of the side of one's mouth
parkside
passenger-side
pearlside
pipe the side
positive side waterproofing
P-side
queenside
retire the side
right-side-out
right side out
right side up
rinkside
roundside
the dark side of the moon
sell side
server-side
server-side rendering
sidal
Side A
sideache
sidearm
side arm
sideart
Side B
side bacon
side bag
sideband
sidebang
sidebar
sidebearing
side bet
side bitch
side-bitch
sideblade
sideblog
side-blotched lizard
side-blown
sideboard
sidebone
side-boob
sideboob
side boob
side booty
sidebox
sideboy
sidebuffer
sideburden
sideburn
sideburns
side by each
side-by-side
side by side
side cap
sidecar
side-cast
side cast
sidecast
side center
side chain
sidechaining
side chair
sidechannel
side-channel
side chest
side chick
side-chick
sidecurl
sidecut
side-dish
side dish
sidedish
side door
sidedress
side drum
side effect
side-effect
side-effecting
side entrance
side eye
side-eye
side-eyed
sideface
side flash
side-foot
sidefoot
sideform
side gaze
sidegaze
side-gaze
sideglance
sidegrade
side grafting
sidegroup
sidehack
sidehacker
sidehacking
side-hand
side-handed
side-handedly
sidehead
sidehill
side horse
side hustle
side issue
side job
sidekick
sidelamp
sidelength
sideless
side letter
side-lever
sidelight
sidelighting
sideline
side line
side-line
sideling
sideload
side-loader
side-lobe
sidelobe
side-lock
sidelock
sidelong
sidelot
sidely
sideman
sidemeat
side mirror
side mission
sidemode
sidemounted
side mover
sideneck
side-necked turtle
side netting
side-netting
side nigga
sidenote
side note
side-on
side on
side order
side out
sidepath
sideperson
sidepiece
side piece
sidepipe
side plate
sideplating
side play
sidepod
sidepost
side pot
side prime
sideproduct
side profile
side puck
sidequel
sidequest
side rail
side raise
side return
side road
sideroad
siderod
side-saddle
sidesaddle
side salad
sidescraper
sidescreen
side scroller
side-scroller
sidescrolling
side-scrolling
sideseam
sideshadow
side shot
sideshow
side show
side-slip
sideslip
sidesplit
side-split
sidesplitter
sidesplitting
side-splitting
side-splittingly
sidestall
sidestep
sidestick
side-straddle hop
sidestream
side street
side-striped jackal
sidestroke
side surf
side swimmer
sideswipe
side-swipe
side-taking
side talk
side ting
sidetone
side tool
side-to-side
sidetrack
side track
side triceps
sidetrip
side valve
sideview
sidewalk
side wall
sidewall
sideward
sidewards
sideway
sideways
side-wheel
sidewheel
sidewheeler
side-whiskered
side-whiskers
side whiskers
side-wife
sidewind
sidewinder
sidewise
sidewoman
sidework
sidewound
Side X
sideyard
sidies
siding
silverside
slideflask
slideglass
southside
spear side
split one's sides
S-side
starboard-side
stepside
strike out the side
sunny-side down
sunny side down
sunny-side up
sunny side up
Sydneysider
take a walk on the wild side
take sides
the apples on the other side of the wall are the sweetest
the grass is always greener on the other side
the grass is always greener on the other side of the fence
the grass is always greener on the other side of the road
the rough side of one's tongue
the wrong side of
this side of the black stump
thorn in someone's side
threeside
time is on one's side
toeside
t'othersider
trackside
tubside
upper side
wake up on the wrong side of bed
walk on the wild side
wallside
wayside
weakside
wetside
wharfside
wrong side of the tracks
wrong side out
English terms suffixed with -side
side against
side with
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