side

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

• A square has four sides.

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

• A cube has six sides.
• He said, “Where we’re at right now was back in 2008 all covered with ice. From here to there at the side, the glacier shrank about 20 to 30 meters.”

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

• Which side of the tray shall I put it on? The patient was bleeding on the right side.

A region in a specified position with respect to something.countableuncountable

• Meet me on the north side of the monument.

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.countableuncountable

• Meronyms: flank, loin; latus, lumbus
• I generally sleep on my side.

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

• Look on the bright side.
• She has a mean side (to her).

One set of competitors in a game.countableuncountable

• Which side has kick-off?

A group having a particular allegiance in a conflict or competition.countableuncountable

• 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.

A line of descent traced through a particular relative, usually a parent or spouse, as distinguished from that traced through another.countableuncountable

• his mother's side of the family

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

• John wrote 15 sides for his essay!

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

To ally oneself, be in an alliance, usually with "with" or rarely "in with"intransitive

• Which will you side with, good or evil?

To lean on one side.

To be or stand at the side of; to be on the side toward.obsoletetransitive

• His blind eye that syded Paridell.

To suit; to pair; to match.obsoletetransitive

• 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 h

To work (a timber or rib) to a certain thickness by trimming the sides.transitive

To furnish with a siding.transitive

• to side a house

To provide with, as a side or accompaniment.transitive

• 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.

Wide; large; long, pendulous, hanging low, trailing; far-reaching.Northern-EnglandScotlandUK

• 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 […]

Far; distant.Scotland

Widely; wide; far.UKdialectal

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.