sideways
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Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈsaɪdweɪz/
Audio (Southern England): (file)
Noun
sideways
- plural of sideway
- 2002, Joseph Brodsky, Cynthia L. Haven, Joseph Brodsky: Conversations, page 169:
- And he was just taking byways and sideways, travelling in the peripheries of civilization, yeah?
- 2006, David Haskell, Roundabout the USA, page 103:
- In time our way merged into a throng of cars flowing here and there on the highways and sideways of the north side of Los Angeles.
- 2013, Pitou van Dijck, The Impact of the IIRSA Road Infrastructure Programme on Amazonia, page 81:
- Expansion of economic activities resulted in the construction of a so—called fishbone pattern of roads and sideways.
Adjective
sideways (comparative more sideways, superlative most sideways)
- Moving or directed toward one side.
- Giving Mary a sideways glance, he said, […] .
- He gave the ball a sideways kick.
- (informal) Positioned sideways (with a side to the front).
- There was a stack of papers in front of each seat at the table, but each stack was sideways.
- (informal) Neither moving upward nor moving downward.
- Once we get out of this sideways economy, our figures will more accurately reflect what we're truly capable of.
- (usually with "with", informal) In conflict (with); not compatible (with).
- He was constantly getting sideways with his boss till he got fired.
Translations
moving or directed towards one side
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positioned sideways
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neither moving up nor moving down
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Adverb
sideways
- With a side to the front.
- He builds houses sideways, with the front door on the side.
- Towards one side.
- A bishop moves only diagonally; a rook, only sideways, forward, and back.
- He looked sideways at the new arrival, wondering who she was.
- 1907 August, Robert W[illiam] Chambers, chapter IX, in The Younger Set, New York, N.Y.: D. Appleton & Company, →OCLC:
- “A tight little craft,” was Austin’s invariable comment on the matron; […]. ¶ Near her wandered her husband, orientally bland, invariably affable, and from time to time squinting sideways, as usual, in the ever-renewed expectation that he might catch a glimpse of his stiff, retroussé moustache.
- Askance; sidelong.
- (informal) Neither upward nor downward.
- The economy has been moving sideways for several months now.
- (chiefly US, colloquial) Not as planned; towards a worse outcome.
- We realized the project could go sideways very quickly if we didn't get the sales and marketing people on our side.
- 2023 May 20, Tabby Kinder, George Hammond, quoting Ivan Matkovic, “So long, San Francisco”, in FT Weekend, Life & Arts, page 1:
- It feels like the probability of something going sideways here is higher.
Derived terms
Translations
with a side to the front
towards one side
askance
neither upward nor downward
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References
- “sideways”, in OneLook Dictionary Search.
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