different between blindside vs broadside

English

Alternative forms

• blind-side

Etymology

blind +? side

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?bla?nd?sa?d/

Noun

blindside (plural blindsides)

1. (automotive) A driver's field of blindness around an automobile; the side areas behind the driver.
2. (figuratively) A person's weak point.
3. (rugby) The space on the side of the pitch with the shorter distance between the breakdown/set piece and the touchline; compare openside.
4. (rugby union) The blindside flanker, a position in rugby union, usually number 6.

   The blindside packs down at the scrum on the blindside.

Synonyms

• (a driver's field of blindness): blindspot

Translations

Verb

blindside (third-person singular simple present blindsides, present participle blindsiding, simple past and past participle blindsided)

1. (transitive) To attack (a person) on his or her blind side.

   The robbers crept out of the forest and blindsided the traveller.

2. (transitive, figuratively, informal) To catch off guard; to take by surprise.

   He had completed his plan to develop a new office building, but was blindsided by the sudden drop in real estate values.

Quotations

• For quotations using this term, see Citations:blindside.

Translations

English

Etymology

broad +? side

Noun

broadside (plural broadsides)

1. (nautical) One side of a ship above the water line; all the guns on one side of a warship; their simultaneous firing.
2. (by extension) A forceful attack, be it written or spoken.
   • 1993, Peter Kolchin, American Slavery (Penguin History, paperback edition, 34)

     Although slaveholders managed - through a combination of political compromise and ideological broadside - to contain the threat of a major anti-slavery compaign by fellow Southerners, planters could never be totally sure of non-slaveholders' loyalty to the social order.

   • 2013, Luke Harding and Uki Goni, Argentina urges UK to hand back Falklands and 'end colonialism (in The Guardian, 3 January 2013)[1]

     Fernández's diplomatic broadside follows the British government's decision last month to name a large frozen chunk of Antarctica after the Queen – a gesture viewed in Buenos Aires as provocative.

3. A large sheet of paper, printed on one side and folded.
4. The printed lyrics of a folk song or ballad; a broadsheet.

Translations

Adverb

broadside (not comparable)

1. Sideways; with the side turned to the direction of some object.

Translations

Verb

broadside (third-person singular simple present broadsides, present participle broadsiding, simple past and past participle broadsided)

1. (transitive) To collide with something sideways on

References

• broadside in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.
• broadside in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.

Anagrams

• sideboard