different between side vs parish

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)

1. A bounding straight edge of a two-dimensional shape.

2. A flat surface of a three-dimensional object; a face.

3. One half (left or right, top or bottom, front or back, etc.) of something or someone.
4. A region in a specified position with respect to something.
5. 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.

6. One surface of a sheet of paper (used instead of "page", which can mean one or both surfaces.)

7. One possible aspect of a concept, person or thing.

8. One set of competitors in a game.

9. (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.

10. A group of morris dancers who perform together.
11. 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.

    • 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

12. (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.

13. (sports, billiards, snooker, pool) Sidespin; english

14. (Britain, Australia, Ireland, dated) A television channel, usually as opposed to the one currently being watched (from when there were only two channels).

15. (US, colloquial) A dish that accompanies the main course; a side dish.

16. A line of descent traced through one parent as distinguished from that traced through another.
17. (baseball) The batters faced in an inning by a particular pitcher

    Clayton Kershaw struck out the side in the 6th inning.

18. (slang, dated, uncountable) An unjustified air of self-importance.
19. (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.
20. (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)

1. Being on the left or right, or toward the left or right; lateral.

   • One mighty squadron with a side wind sped.

2. 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)

1. (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?

2. To lean on one side.

   (Can we find and add a quotation of Francis Bacon to this entry?)

3. (transitive, obsolete) To be or stand at the side of; to be on the side toward.
4. (transitive, obsolete) To suit; to pair; to match.

   (Can we find and add a quotation of Clarendon to this entry?)

5. (transitive, shipbuilding) To work (a timber or rib) to a certain thickness by trimming the sides.
6. (transitive) To furnish with a siding.

   to side a house

7. (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 […]

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)

1. (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 […]

2. (Scotland) Far; distant.

Derived terms

• sidth

Adverb

side (comparative more side, superlative most side)

1. (Britain dialectal) Widely; wide; far.

Verb

side (third-person singular simple present sides, present participle siding, simple past and past participle sided)

1. 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)

1. 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)

1. bond, binding
2. bandage
3. relationship, tie

Inflection

Compounds

• kaelaside

Noun

side (genitive side, partitive sidet)

1. communication (especially one achieved through technology)
2. signal (especially in radio)

3. communications (as a field)
4. (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

1. bandage
2. bond
3. sanitary towel
4. (anatomy) ligament

Declension

Synonyms

• (sanitary towel): terveysside
• (ligament): ligamentti

Derived terms

Related terms

• sidos

Anagrams

• desi, desi-

Latin

Verb

s?de

1. 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)

1. 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

1. 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)

1. a page (e.g. in a book)
2. side

3. (of a case) aspect
4. (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)

1. a page (e.g. in a book)

2. a side (various, though not all senses)

Derived terms

Etymology 2

Adjective

side

1. definite singular of sid
2. 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

1. widely

Etymology 2

From Proto-Germanic *s?d?, whence also Old High German s?ta

Noun

s?de f

1. 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)

1. silk

Synonyms

• seolc

Old Irish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?s?ið?e/

Pronoun

side

1. inflection of suide:
   1. nominative/accusative singular masculine unstressed
   2. 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)

1. side
2. page

Derived terms

• webside

Further reading

• “side (I)”, in Wurdboek fan de Fryske taal (in Dutch), 2011

English

Alternative forms

• paroch (Scotland, obsolete)

Pronunciation

• (General American) IPA^(key): /?pæ???/, /?p????/
• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /?pæ???/
• Homophone: perish (Mary–marry–merry merger)
• Hyphenation: par?ish

Etymology 1

From Middle English parisshe, from Old French paroisse (compare the obsolete variant paroch, from Anglo-Norman paroche, parosse), from Late Latin parochia, from Ancient Greek ???????? (paroikía, “a dwelling abroad”).

Noun

parish (plural parishes)

1. In the Anglican, Eastern Orthodox, Lutheran and Roman Catholic Church, an administrative part of a diocese that has its own church.
2. The community attending that church; the members of the parish.
3. (US) An ecclesiastical society, usually not bounded by territorial limits, but composed of those persons who choose to unite under the charge of a particular priest, clergyman, or minister; also, loosely, the territory in which the members of a congregation live.
4. A civil subdivision of a British county, often corresponding to an earlier ecclesiastical parish.
5. An administrative subdivision in the U.S. state of Louisiana that is equivalent to a county in other U.S. states.

Derived terms

Related terms

• parochial

Translations

Verb

parish (third-person singular simple present parishes, present participle parishing, simple past and past participle parished)

1. (transitive) To place (an area, or rarely a person) into one or more parishes.
   • 1917, Annual Report of the Methodist Episcopal Church, Board of Home Missions and Church Extension, page 70:

     […] [m]akes possible, through the aid of the rural ministers, the development of the various phases of the District program, such as (a) Parishing of the District; (b) Interdenominational adjustment in the interest of rural religious advance […]

   • 1972, Winter's Tales from Ireland, volume 2, page 55:

     Father Malachy, a distant cousin, who was parished somewhere in the depths of Co. Monaghan, sat firmly in the chair in the corner, sipping his tea from a china cup.

   • 1991, Melissa Bradley Kirkpatrick, Re-parishing the Countryside: Progressivism and Religious Interests in Rural Life Reform, 1908-1934
   • 1992, Parish and town councils in England: a survey, pages 17 and 21:

     Consequently, approaching half of the non-metropolitan population of England is parished (Table 2.2).

     […]

     The South West and East Midlands are also particularly well parished while the North West, West Midlands and South East are poorly parished.

   • 2011, Sustainable development in the Localism Bill: third report ?ISBN, page 5

     Dr Whitehead: In your written evidence, you have all in different ways made the distinction between NDOs in parished areas and NDOs in non-parished areas, […]

2. (intransitive) To visit residents of a parish.
   • 1896, Mrs. Humphry Ward, Sir George Tressady, volume 1 ?ISBN:

     […] a chair immediately opposite to Tressady's place remained vacant. It was being kept for the eldest son of the house, his mother explaining carelessly to Lord Fontenoy that she believed he was "Out parishing somewhere, as usual."

   • 1903, Maxwell Gray, Richard Rosny, page 210:

     "You will take pleasure in parishing. Mother used to parish."

     "How do you know I like parishing?"

     "Your uncle said so."

     "Oh! did he?"

     "And you may like the rectory people; it's a fine old house, and often full of visitors."

   • 1921, Margaret Pedler, The Splendid Folly, page 46:

     "Are you going ‘parishing’ this morning?" inquired Diana, as she watched him fill and light his pipe.

Etymology 2

Verb

parish (third-person singular simple present parishes, present participle parishing, simple past and past participle parished)

1. Pronunciation spelling of perish, representing Mary-marry-merry English.

Anagrams

• Phairs, Shairp, raphis

Middle English

Noun

parish

1. Alternative form of parisshe