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sideways
WORDNET DICTIONARY
Adjective sideways has 1 sense
- sideways(s = adj.all) crabwise - (of movement) at an angle; Array
Adverbial sideways has 4 senses
- sideways(r = adv.all) sideway, sidewise - with one side forward or to the front; "turned sideways to show the profile"; "crabs seeming to walk sidewise"
- sideways(r = adv.all) sideway, sidewise - from the side; obliquely; "a picture lit sideways"; "scenes viewed sidewise"
- sideways(r = adv.all) sideway, sidewise - toward one side; "the car slipped sideways into the ditch"; "leaning sideways"; "a figure moving sidewise in the shadows"
- sideways(r = adv.all) obliquely, sidelong - to, toward or at one side; "darting eyes looking sidelong out of a wizened face"
CIDE DICTIONARY
sideways, adv.
Toward the side; sidewise. [1913 Webster]
"A second refraction made sideways."
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"His beard, a good palm's length, at least, . . .
Shot sideways, like a swallow's wings." [1913 Webster]
Shot sideways, like a swallow's wings." [1913 Webster]
OXFORD DICTIONARY
sideways, adv. & adj.
--adv.
1 to or from a side (moved sideways).
2 with one side facing forward (sat sideways on the bus).
--adj. to or from a side (a sideways movement).
--adv.
1 to or from a side (moved sideways).
2 with one side facing forward (sat sideways on the bus).
--adj. to or from a side (a sideways movement).
Derivative
sidewise adv. & adj.
THESAURUS
sideways
across, across the grain, aside, askance, askant, aslant, aslope, asquint, at an angle, athwart, athwartships, breadthwise, broad side foremost, broadside, broadside on, broadways, broadwise, circuitously, contrariwise, contrawise, crabwise, crisscross, cross, cross-grained, crossway, crossways, crosswise, depthwise, deviately, deviously, digressively, divagationally, divergently, edgeway, edgeways, edgewise, excursively, flanking, glancing, glancingly, indirectly, laterad, lateral, laterally, lee, leeward, next-beside, obliquely, on its side, on one side, on the beam, overthwart, right and left, side, sideling, sidelong, sideward, sidewards, sideway, sidewise, sidling, skirting, slantingly, slantways, slantwise, slaunchways, through, thwart, thwartly, thwartways, to one side, transverse, transversely, traverse, weather, widthways, widthwise, windwardROGET THESAURUS
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Laterality
N laterality, side, flank, quarter, lee, hand, cheek, jowl, jole, wing, profile, temple, parietes, loin, haunch, hip, beam, gable, gable end, broadside, lee side, points of the compass, East, Orient, Levant, West, orientation, lateral, sidelong, collateral, parietal, flanking, skirting, flanked, sideling, many sided, multilateral, bilateral, trilateral, quadrilateral, Eastern, orient, oriental, Levantine, Western, occidental, Hesperian, sideways, sidelong, broadside on, on one side, abreast, alongside, beside, aside, by the side of, side by side, cheek by jowl, to windward, to leeward, laterally, right and left, on her beam ends, his cheek the may of days outworn.
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