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side
English
Pronunciation
- enPR: s?d, IPA(key): /sa?d/
- Hyphenation: side
- Rhymes: -a?d
- Homophone: sighed
Etymology 1
From Middle English side, from Old English s?de (“side, flank”), from Proto-Germanic *s?d? (“side, flank, edge, shore”), from Proto-Indo-European *s?y- (“to send, throw, drop, sow, deposit”). Cognate with Saterland Frisian Siede (“side”), West Frisian side (“side”), Dutch zijde, zij (“side”), German Low German Sied (“side”), German Seite (“side”), Danish and Norwegian side (“side”), Swedish sida (“side”).
Noun
side (countable and uncountable, plural sides)
- 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.
- 2006, American Academy of Orthopaedic Surgeons, Emergency Care and Transportation of the Sick and Injured (Jones & Bartlett Learning, ?ISBN, p. 234:
- Roll the patient onto the left side so that head, shoulders, and torso move at the same time without twisting.
- 2006, American Academy of Orthopaedic Surgeons, Emergency Care and Transportation of the Sick and Injured (Jones & Bartlett Learning, ?ISBN, p. 234:
- One surface of a sheet of paper (used instead of "page", which can mean one or both surfaces.)
- One possible aspect of a concept, person or thing.
- One set of competitors in a game.
- (Britain, Australia, Ireland) A sports team.
- 2011, Nick Cain, Greg Growden, Rugby Union For Dummies, UK Edition, 3rd Edition, p.220:
- 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.
- 2011, Nick Cain, Greg Growden, Rugby Union For Dummies, UK Edition, 3rd Edition, p.220:
- A group of morris dancers who perform together.
- A group having a particular allegiance in a conflict or competition.
- 2019, VOA Learning English (public domain)
- “Creating artificial rain over the Yellow Sea would help the Chinese side too,” the spokesman said Kim told the meeting.
- “Creating artificial rain over the Yellow Sea would help the Chinese side too,” the spokesman said Kim told the meeting.
- 1824, Walter Savage Landor, Imaginary Conversations, Lord Chesterfield and Lord Chatham
- We have not always been of the […] same side in politics.
- sets the passions on the side of truth
- 2019, VOA Learning English (public domain)
- (music) A recorded piece of music; a record, especially in jazz.
- 1995, James Lincoln Collier, Jazz: The American Theme Song, p. 41
- 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.
- 1995, James Lincoln Collier, Jazz: The American Theme Song, p. 41
- (sports, billiards, snooker, pool) Sidespin; english
- (Britain, Australia, Ireland, dated) A television channel, usually as opposed to the one currently being watched (from when there were only two channels).
- (US, colloquial) A dish that accompanies the main course; a side dish.
- A line of descent traced through one parent as distinguished from that traced through another.
- (baseball) The batters faced in an inning by a particular pitcher
- Clayton Kershaw struck out the side in the 6th inning.
- (slang, dated, uncountable) An unjustified air of self-importance.
- (drama) A written monologue or part of a scene to be read by an actor at an audition.
- 2010, Viola Spolin, ?Carol Sills, Theater Games for Rehearsal: A Director's Handbook (page 12)
- 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.
- 2010, Viola Spolin, ?Carol Sills, Theater Games for Rehearsal: A Director's Handbook (page 12)
- (LGBT, slang) A man who prefers not to engage in anal sex during homosexual intercourse.
- My boyfriend and I are both sides, so we prefer to do oral on each other.
Synonyms
- (bounding straight edge of an object): edge
- (flat surface of an object): face
- (left or right half): half
- (surface of a sheet of paper): page
- (region in a specified position with respect to something):
- (one possible aspect of a concept):
- (set of opponents in a game): team
- (group having a particular allegiance in a war):
- (television channel): channel, station (US)
Hyponyms
Derived terms
Related terms
Translations
Adjective
side (comparative more side, superlative most side)
- Being on the left or right, or toward the left or right; lateral.
- One mighty squadron with a side wind sped.
- Indirect; oblique; incidental.
- a side issue; a side view or remark
- 1594, Richard Hooker, Of the Lawes of Ecclesiastical Politie
- The law hath no side respect to their persons.
Verb
side (third-person singular simple present sides, present participle siding, simple past and past participle sided)
- (intransitive) To ally oneself, be in an alliance, usually with "with" or rarely "in with"
- Which will you side with, good or evil?
- 1597, Francis Bacon, Essays – "Of Great Place":
- 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.
- 1958, Archer Fullingim, The Kountze [Texas] News, August 28, 1958:
- How does it feel... to... side in with those who voted against you in 1947?
- To lean on one side.
- (Can we find and add a quotation of Francis Bacon to this entry?)
- (transitive, obsolete) To be or stand at the side of; to be on the side toward.
- (transitive, obsolete) To suit; to pair; to match.
- (Can we find and add a quotation of Clarendon to this entry?)
- (transitive, shipbuilding) To work (a timber or rib) to a certain thickness by trimming the sides.
- (transitive) To furnish with a siding.
- to side a house
- (transitive, cooking) To provide with, as a side or accompaniment.
- 1995, Orange Coast Magazine (volume 11, number 8, page 166)
- Entrees are sided with a generous portion of vegetables, and some include little surprises […]
- 1995, Orange Coast Magazine (volume 11, number 8, page 166)
Synonyms
- (ally oneself):
- take side
Derived terms
- side with
- siding
Translations
See also
- ally
- alliance
- join in
Etymology 2
From Middle English side, syde, syd, from Old English s?d (“wide, broad, spacious, ample, extensive, vast, far-reaching”), from Proto-Germanic *s?daz (“drooping, hanging, low, excessive, extra”), from Proto-Indo-European *s?y- (“to send, throw, drop, sow, deposit”). Cognate with Low German sied (“low”), Swedish sid (“long, hanging down”), Icelandic síður (“low hanging, long”).
Adjective
side (comparative more side, superlative most side)
- (Britain archaic, dialectal, Northern England, Scotland) Wide; large; long, pendulous, hanging low, trailing; far-reaching.
- c. 1556, Thomas Cranmer, A Confutation of Unwritten Verities, “That the general counsels withoute the worde of god are not sufficiente to make articles of fayth,”[2]
- But when he perceaved that the sayd Pryest could not pourge himself of the foresayd crime he prively payed him his quarters wages before hande and suffered hym to departe without farther tryall of the sayd cryme: and now he jetteth in london wyth side gown and sarcenet typet as good a virgin priest as the best.
- 1575, Robert Laneham, Robert Laneham’s Letter: Describing a Part of the Entertainment unto Queen Elizabeth at the Castle of Kenelworth in 1575, edited by F. J. Furnivall, London: Chatto & Windus, 1907, “The auncient Minstrell described,” p. 38,[3]
- Hiz gooun had syde sleeuez dooun to midlegge, slit from the shooulder too the hand, & lined with white cotten.
- 1595, George Peele, The Old Wives’ Tale, The Malone Society Reprints, 1908, lines 47-50,[4]
- What doe we make dost thou aske? why we make faces for feare: such as if thy mortall eyes could behold, would make thee water the long seames of thy side slops […]
- c. 1598, William Shakespeare, Much Ado about Nothing, Act III, Scene 4,[5]
- By my troth, ’s but a night-gown in respect of yours: cloth o’ gold, and cuts, and laced with silver, set with pearls, down sleeves, side sleeves, and skirts, round underborne with a bluish tinsel […]
- c. 1556, Thomas Cranmer, A Confutation of Unwritten Verities, “That the general counsels withoute the worde of god are not sufficiente to make articles of fayth,”[2]
- (Scotland) Far; distant.
Derived terms
- sidth
Adverb
side (comparative more side, superlative most side)
- (Britain dialectal) Widely; wide; far.
Verb
side (third-person singular simple present sides, present participle siding, simple past and past participle sided)
- To clear, tidy or sort.
Anagrams
- Desi, Dies, EIDs, Eids, IDEs, IEDs, Ides, SEID, deis, desi, dies, eids, ides, sied
Danish
Etymology
From Old Norse síða.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /?si?d?/, [?si?ð??]
- Rhymes: -i?d?
Noun
side c (singular definite siden, plural indefinite sider)
- page
Declension
Further reading
- “side” in Den Danske Ordbog
- “side” in Ordbog over det danske Sprog
Estonian
Etymology
From Proto-Finnic *sidek. Equivalent to siduma +? -e.
Noun
side (genitive sideme, partitive sidet)
- bond, binding
- bandage
- relationship, tie
Inflection
Compounds
- kaelaside
Noun
side (genitive side, partitive sidet)
- communication (especially one achieved through technology)
- signal (especially in radio)
- communications (as a field)
- (colloquial) post office
Inflection
Compounds
- otseside
Finnish
(index si)
Etymology
From Proto-Finnic *sidek. Equivalent to sitoa +? -e.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /?side?/, [?s?ide?(?)]
- Rhymes: -ide
- Syllabification: si?de
Noun
side
- bandage
- bond
- sanitary towel
- (anatomy) ligament
Declension
Synonyms
- (sanitary towel): terveysside
- (ligament): ligamentti
Derived terms
Related terms
- sidos
Anagrams
- desi, desi-
Latin
Verb
s?de
- second-person singular present active imperative of s?d?
Manx
Etymology
From Old Irish saiget, from Latin sagitta.
Noun
side f (genitive singular sidey, plural sideyn)
- arrow, bolt, shaft
Related terms
- fleit
- sideyr (“archer”)
Mutation
References
- Gregory Toner, Maire Ní Mhaonaigh, Sharon Arbuthnot, Dagmar Wodtko, Maire-Luise Theuerkauf, editors (2019) , “saiget”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language
Middle Irish
Etymology
From Old Irish síd, from Proto-Celtic *sedos, *s?dos (“mound (inhabited by fairies)”), from Proto-Indo-European *s?ds, *sed- (“seat”).
Noun
side m
- fairy hill or mound
Derived terms
Descendants
- Irish: sí
Mutation
References
- Gregory Toner, Maire Ní Mhaonaigh, Sharon Arbuthnot, Dagmar Wodtko, Maire-Luise Theuerkauf, editors (2019) , “1 síd, síth”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language
Norwegian Bokmål
Etymology
From Old Norse síða.
Noun
side f or m (definite singular sida or siden, indefinite plural sider, definite plural sidene)
- a page (e.g. in a book)
- side
- (of a case) aspect
- (on animal) flank
Derived terms
Norwegian Nynorsk
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /²si?(d)?/ (examples of pronunciation)
Etymology 1
From Old Norse síða. Akin to English side.
Noun
side f (definite singular sida, indefinite plural sider, definite plural sidene)
- a page (e.g. in a book)
- a side (various, though not all senses)
Derived terms
Etymology 2
Adjective
side
- definite singular of sid
- plural of sid
References
- “side” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.
Anagrams
- deis, desi-, dise, seid
Old English
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /?si?.de/
Etymology 1
From the adjective s?d.
Adverb
s?de
- widely
Etymology 2
From Proto-Germanic *s?d?, whence also Old High German s?ta
Noun
s?de f
- side
Declension
Etymology 3
Borrowed from Late Latin s?ta, whence also Old High German s?da (“silk”).
Noun
s?de f (nominative plural s?dan)
- silk
Synonyms
- seolc
Old Irish
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /?s?ið?e/
Pronoun
side
- inflection of suide:
- nominative/accusative singular masculine unstressed
- genitive singular feminine unstressed
Mutation
West Frisian
Etymology
From Old Frisian s?de, from Proto-Germanic *s?d?.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /?sid?/
Noun
side c (plural siden, diminutive sydsje)
- side
- page
Derived terms
- webside
Further reading
- “side (I)”, in Wurdboek fan de Fryske taal (in Dutch), 2011
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border
English
Etymology
Inherited from Middle English bordure, from Old French bordeure, of Germanic origin, from Frankish *bord, equivalent to modern French bord (“a border”) + -er.
Akin to Middle High German borte (“border, trim”), German Borte (“ribbon, trimming”). Doublet of bordure. More at board.
Pronunciation
- (General Australian) IPA(key): /?b??d?/
- (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /?b??d?/
- (US) IPA(key): /?b??d?/
- Rhymes: -??(?)d?(?)
- Homophone: boarder (accents with the horse-hoarse merger)
Noun
border (countable and uncountable, plural borders)
- The outer edge of something.
- the borders of the garden
- 1843, Jeremy Bentham, Principles of Morals and Legislation, Fragment on Government, Civil Code, Penal Law
- upon the borders of these solitudes
- a. 1677, Isaac Barrow, The Danger and Mischief of Delaying Reptentance (sermon)
- in the borders of death
- A decorative strip around the edge of something.
- A strip of ground in which ornamental plants are grown.
- The line or frontier area separating political or geographical regions.
- 2013, Nicholas Watt and Nick Hopkins, Afghanistan bomb: UK to 'look carefully' at use of vehicles(in The Guardian, 1 May 2013)
- The Ministry of Defence said on Wednesday the men had been killed on Tuesday in the Nahr-e Saraj district of Helmand province, on the border of Kandahar just north of the provincial capital Lashkar Gah.
- 23 June 2018, Mattha Busb, The Independent, Jogger crosses US-Canada border by mistake, is held for two weeks in detention centre
- A French tourist who accidentally crossed the border into the US from Canada during an evening jog was sent to a detention centre 125 miles away and held for two weeks until she was released.
- 2013, Nicholas Watt and Nick Hopkins, Afghanistan bomb: UK to 'look carefully' at use of vehicles(in The Guardian, 1 May 2013)
- (Britain, uncountable) border morris or border dancing; a vigorous style of traditional English dance originating from villages along the border between England and Wales, performed by a team of dancers usually with their faces disguised with black makeup.
- (computing) A string that is both a prefix and a suffix of another particular string.
Derived terms
Translations
Verb
border (third-person singular simple present borders, present participle bordering, simple past and past participle bordered)
- (transitive) To put a border on something.
- (transitive) To form a border around; to bound.
- (transitive) To lie on, or adjacent to, a border of.
- Denmark borders Germany to the south.
- (intransitive) To touch at a border (with on, upon, or with).
- Connecticut borders on Massachusetts.
- (intransitive) To approach; to come near to; to verge (with on or upon).
- a. 1694, John Tillotson, The Folly of Scoffing at Religion
- Wit which borders upon profaneness […] deserves to be branded as folly.
- a. 1694, John Tillotson, The Folly of Scoffing at Religion
Derived terms
- border on
- cross-border
Translations
Anagrams
- roberd
French
Etymology
From bord +? -er, of Germanic origin.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /b??.de/
Verb
border
- to border (add a border to)
- to border (share a border with)
- to tuck in
Conjugation
Derived terms
- avoir le cul bordé de nouilles
Further reading
- “border” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).
Anagrams
- broder, rebord
Middle English
Noun
border
- Alternative form of bourdour
Norwegian Bokmål
Etymology 1
Alternative forms
- bord
Noun
border n
- indefinite plural of bord
Etymology 2
Noun
border m
- indefinite plural of bord
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