side
Meanings
- 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.
- 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.
- A sports team.
- A group of morris dancers who perform together.
- A group having a particular allegiance in a conflict or competition.
- A recorded piece of music; a record, especially in jazz.
- Being on the left or right, or toward the left or right; lateral.
- Indirect; oblique; incidental.
- To ally oneself, be in an alliance, usually with "with" or rarely "in with"
- To lean on one side.
- To be or stand at the side of; to be on the side toward.
- To suit; to pair; to match.
- To work (a timber or rib) to a certain thickness by trimming the sides.
- To furnish with a siding.
- To provide with, as a side or accompaniment.
- Wide; large; long, pendulous, hanging low, trailing; far-reaching.
- Far; distant.
- Widely; wide; far.
- To clear, tidy or sort.
- 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.
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Etymology
Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *seh₁-der. Proto-Germanic *sīdaz Proto-Germanic *sīdǭ Old English sīde Middle English side English side From Middle English side, from Old English sīde (“side, flank”), from Proto-Germanic *sīdǭ (“side, flank, edge, shore”), derived from *sīdaz, probably from Proto-Indo-European *seh₁- (“long, lasting”). 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”). The LGBTQ slang sense was coined by sex therapist and author Joe Kort in 2010 and popularized in 2013. The sense was coined by analogy with top and bottom and based on the metaphor of a box which has a top, bottom, and sides.