/əˈsaɪd/
OriginFrom Middle English aside, asyde, a-side, oside, from Middle English on side, from Old English on sīdan (literally “on (the) side (of)”), equivalent to a- + side. Compare beside.
- not-comparableTo or on one side so as to be out of the way.
“Move aside, please, so that these people can come through.”
“But soft! but soft! aside: here comes the king.”
“[…] and thou shalt set aside that which is full.”
- not-comparableExcluded from consideration.
“joking aside”
“unusual circumstances aside”
“But musical ancestry aside, the influence to which [Justin] Bieber is most beholden is the current trends in pop music, which means Believe is loaded up with EDM [electronic dance music] accouterments”
- Not in perfect symmetry; distorted laterally, especially of the human body.
“Her figure was slight; but the cruel accident—a fall in her childhood, which had laid the foundation of her ill health—had made her a little aside, and caused a degree of lameness, which rendered it d”
- An incidental remark to a person next to one made discreetly but not in private, audible only to that person.
- A brief comment by a character addressing the audience, unheard by other characters.
- A minor related mention, an afterthought.
“This, then, is what we have done up to now in this book. (As I have been doing right along) may I make an aside? (An aside is a part in an old-time play or movie in which an actor steps out of charact”
“In addition, an analogy was only classified as significant if it appeared to be part of a serious attempt to generate or evaluate a solution, and as nonsignificant if it was simply mentioned as an asi”
“As an aside, and for consideration, the great religions of the world seem to be jealously guarded, run and administered by the men-folk.”
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