side

noun

1. (countable, uncountable)A bounding straight edge of a two-dimensional shape.

   “A square has four sides.”

2. (countable, uncountable)A flat surface of a three-dimensional object; a face.

   “A cube has six sides.”

3. (countable, uncountable)One half (left or right, top or bottom, front or back, etc.) of something or someone.

   “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.”

4. (countable, uncountable)A region in a specified position with respect to something.

   “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.”

5. (countable, uncountable)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.

   “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.”

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

   “John wrote 15 sides for his essay!”

7. (countable, uncountable)One possible aspect of a concept, person, or thing.

   “Look on the bright side.”

   “She has a mean side (to her).”

8. (countable, uncountable)One set of competitors in a game.

   “Which side has kick-off?”

9. (Australia, Ireland, UK, countable, uncountable)A sports team.

   “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.”

10. (countable, uncountable)A group of morris dancers who perform together.
11. (countable, uncountable)A group having a particular allegiance in a conflict or competition.

    “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.”

12. (countable, uncountable)A recorded piece of music; a record, especially in jazz.

    “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. (countable, uncountable)Sidespin; english

    “He had to put a bit of side on to hit the pink ball.”

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

    “I just want to see what's on the other side — James said there was a good film on tonight.”

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

    “Do you want a side of cole-slaw with that?”

16. (countable, uncountable)A line of descent traced through a particular relative, usually a parent or spouse, as distinguished from that traced through another.

    “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.”

17. (countable, uncountable)The batters faced in an inning by a particular pitcher.

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

18. (dated, slang, uncountable)An unjustified air of self-importance; a conceited attitude.

    “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.”

19. (countable, uncountable)A written monologue or part of a scene to be read by an actor at an audition.

    “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.”

20. (countable, uncountable)A person who prefers not to engage in anal sex during same-sex sexual activity.

    “My boyfriend and I are both sides; we prefer to do oral and other stuff.”

21. (countable, obsolete, uncountable)A root.

    “And 9 is said to be the Square, 27 the Cube of 3, which is call'd the Side of 9 and 27, &c.”

adj

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”

   “The law hath no side respect to their persons.”

3. (Northern-England, Scotland, UK, archaic, dialectal)Wide; large; long, pendulous, hanging low, trailing; far-reaching.

   “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.”

   “Hiz gooun had syde sleeuez dooun to midlegge, slit from the shooulder too the hand, & lined with white cotten.”

   “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 […]”

   “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 […]”

4. (Scotland)Far; distant.

verb

1. (intransitive)To ally oneself, be in an alliance, usually with "with" or rarely "in with"

   “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?”

2. To lean on one side.
3. (obsolete, transitive)To be or stand at the side of; to be on the side toward.

   “His blind eye that syded Paridell.”

4. (obsolete, transitive)To suit; to pair; to match.

   “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”

5. (transitive)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)To provide with, as a side or accompaniment.

   “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.”

8. To clear, tidy or sort.

   “Meanwhile I have plenty to employ me, in siding drawers and locked places, which I left in the disgracefullest confusion ;”

   “Now side everything away. The medicines too —put them in the cupboard.”

   “As it had done then, Clare's heart, in a constant state of stress these days, missed a beat now, and she turned hastily to the table where she was siding the dinner things, doing her best to hide her expression which surely would give her away.”

adv

1. (UK, dialectal)Widely; wide; far.

name

1. An ancient city, archaeological site, and modern town in modern Antalya Province, Turkey, on a small peninsula on the Mediterranean coast of Anatolia, settled by Greeks from Cyme.