aside
Part of speech: adv
adj
noun
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: entertainment
lifestyle
theater
Etymology: From Middle English aside, asyde, a-side, oside, from Middle English on side, from Old English on sīdan (literally “on (the) side (of)”), equivalent to a- + side. Compare beside.
Base: side
Affixes: a-
Inflected forms:
form: more aside
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most aside
pos: adj
tags: superlative
form: asides
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: To or on one side so as to be out of the way.
pos: adv
tags: not-comparable
examples: Move aside, please, so that these people can come through.
But soft! but soft! aside: here comes the king.
[…] and thou shalt set aside that which is full.
The storm rush'd in, and Arcite stood aghast; / The flames were blown aside, yet shone they bright, / Fann'd by the wind, and gave a ruffled light.
Here was my chance. I took the old man aside, and two or three glasses of Old Crow launched him into reminiscence.
An indulgent playmate, Grannie would lay aside the long scratchy-looking letter she was writing (heavily crossed ‘to save notepaper’) and enter into the delightful pastime of ‘a chicken from Mr Whiteley's’.
gloss: Excluded from consideration.
pos: adv
tags: not-comparable
examples: joking aside
unusual circumstances aside
But musical ancestry aside, the influence to which [Justin] Bieber is most beholden is the current trends in pop music, which means Believe is loaded up with EDM [electronic dance music] accouterments, seeking a comfortable middle ground where Bieber’s impressively refined pop-R&B croon can rub up on techno blasts and garish dubstep drops (and occasionally grind on some AutoTune, not necessarily because it needs it, but because a certain amount of robo-voice is expected these days).
All scandals aside, Jewish establishment donors and leaders obsessed not only with Jewish continuity but the right kind of continuity—ardently pro-Israel children of two Jewish parents—have failed on their own terms.
gloss: Not in perfect symmetry; distorted laterally, especially of the human body.
pos: adj
examples: Her figure was slight; but the cruel accident—a fall in her childhood, which had laid the foundation of her ill health—had made her a little aside, and caused a degree of lameness, which rendered it difficult for her to move without assistance.
gloss: An incidental remark to a person next to one made discreetly but not in private, audible only to that person.
pos: noun
gloss: An incidental remark to a person next to one made discreetly but not in private, audible only to that person.
 (theater) A brief comment by a character addressing the audience, unheard by other characters.
pos: noun
gloss: A minor related mention, an afterthought.
pos: noun
examples: This, then, is what we have done up to now in this book. (As I have been doing right along) may I make an aside? (An aside is a part in an old-time play or movie in which an actor steps out of character to say something to the audience of a semi-private or semi-confidential nature about the play.) I am confounded, and somewhat appalled when I read over the scholarly works referred to
In addition, an analogy was only classified as significant if it appeared to be part of a serious attempt to generate or evaluate a solution, and as nonsignificant if it was simply mentioned as an aside or commentary. As an example of a nonsignificant analogy, one subject was reminded of another problem he had seen involving the deflection of piano strings of different lengths, but apparently mentioned this as an aside without the intention of applying findings back to the spring problem.
As an aside, and for consideration, the great religions of the world seem to be jealously guarded, run and administered by the men-folk.
Synonyms: sidebar
side note
Derived words: all jokes aside
all joking aside
all kidding aside
aside from
asideness
brush aside
cast aside
jokes aside
kidding aside
lay aside
leave aside
pull aside
pull one aside
push aside
put aside
set-aside
set aside
stand aside
step aside
sweep aside
take one aside
throw aside
turn aside
wave aside
as an aside
Translations:
lang: Catalan
word: incís
lang: Danish
word: sidereplik
lang: Finnish
word: sivuhuomautus
lang: Finnish
word: reunahuomautus
lang: Finnish
word: kommentti
lang: French
word: en passant
lang: French
word: soit dit en passant
lang: French
word: aparté
lang: French
word: incise
lang: Hungarian
word: megjegyzés
lang: Irish
word: idiraisnéis
lang: Italian
word: inciso
lang: Portuguese
word: aparte
lang: Portuguese
word: comentário
lang: Spanish
word: inciso
lang: Swedish
word: avsidesreplik
lang: Swedish
word: sidoreplik
lang: Turkish
word: öte