| dictionary | A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z |
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| Sounds | say'd |
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| Rhymes | abide, actinide, allied, and 173 more rhymes in ayd at the HyperDic website... |
| Meaning | Located on a side. |
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| Examples | "side fences"; "the side porch" |
| Similar | broadside; lateral, sidelong |
| Contrary | top; bottom |
| Meaning | Added as a consequence or supplement. |
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| Examples | "a side benefit" |
| Similar to | added |
| Meaning | A place within a region identified relative to a center or reference location. |
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| Examples | "they always sat on the right side of the church"; "he never left my side" |
| Narrower | bedside; blind side; dockside; east side; hand; north side; shipside; south side; west side |
| Broader | region, part |
| Meaning | One of two or more contesting groups. |
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| Examples | "the Confederate side was prepared to attack" |
| Category | game; war, warfare; politics, political science, government |
| Broader | unit, social unit |
| Verbs | side; side |
| Meaning | Either the left or right half of a body. |
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| Examples | "he had a pain in his side" |
| Category | animal, animate being, beast, brute, creature, fauna; homo, man, human being, human |
| Part of | torso, trunk, body |
| Broader | area, region |
| Adjectives | side-to-side |
| Meaning | An extended outer surface of an object. |
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| Examples | "he turned the box over to examine the bottom side"; "they painted all four sides of the house" |
| Narrower | broadside; edge; front; larboard, port; nearside; obverse; rear, back; reverse, verso; sidewall; soffit; starboard; upper surface |
| Broader | surface |
| Meaning | A surface forming part of the outside of an object. |
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| Examples | "he examined all sides of the crystal" |
| Synonyms | face |
| Narrower | beam-ends; bottom, underside, undersurface; front, front end, forepart; lee, lee side, leeward; rear, backside, back end; top, top side, upper side, upside |
| Broader | surface |
| Meaning | A line segment forming part of the perimeter of a plane figure. |
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| Examples | "the hypotenuse of a right triangle is always the longest side" |
| Broader | line |
| Meaning | An aspect of something (as contrasted with some other implied aspect). |
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| Examples | "he was on the heavy side"; "he is on the purchasing side of the business"; "it brought out his better side" |
| Narrower | downside; hand |
| Broader | aspect, facet |
| Meaning | A family line of descent. |
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| Examples | "he gets his brains from his father's side" |
| Broader | lineage, line, line of descent, descent, bloodline, blood line, blood, pedigree, ancestry, origin, parentage, stemma, stock |
| Meaning | A lengthwise dressed half of an animal's carcass used for food. |
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| Synonyms | side of meat |
| Narrower | side of beef; side of pork |
| Broader | cut, cut of meat |
| Meaning | An opinion that is held in opposition to another in an argument or dispute. |
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| Examples | "there are two sides to every question" |
| Synonyms | position |
| Broader | opinion, view |
| Meaning | An elevated geological formation. |
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| Examples | "the house was built on the side of the mountain" |
| Synonyms | slope, incline |
| Part of | natural elevation, elevation |
| Narrower | ascent, acclivity, rise, raise, climb, upgrade; bank; bank, cant, camber; canyonside; coast; descent, declivity, fall, decline, declination, declension, downslope; escarpment, scarp; hillside; mountainside, versant; ski slope |
| Broader | geological formation, formation |
| Meaning | (sports) the spin given to a ball by striking it on one side or releasing it with a sharp twist. |
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| Synonyms | English |
| Category | sport, athletics |
| Broader | spin |
| Meaning | Take sides with. Align oneself with. Show strong sympathy for. |
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| Pattern | Somebody ----s PP |
| Synonyms | pull, root |
| Broader | back, endorse, indorse, plump for, plunk for, support |
| Nouns | side |
| Meaning | Take the side of. Be on the side of. |
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| Pattern | Somebody ----s something; Somebody ----s somebody |
| Examples | "Whose side are you on?"; "Why are you taking sides with the accused?" |
| Synonyms | go with |
| Broader | choose, take, select, pick out |
| Contrary | straddle |
| Nouns | side |