Sidetrack

Definition: Sidetrack

Sidetrack

Noun

1. A short stretch of railroad track used to store rolling stock or enable trains on the same line to pass.

Verb

1. Wander from a direct or straight course.

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

Date "sidetrack" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1915. (references)

Note: Sidetrack \Side"track`\, transitive verb. [imperative past participle Sidetracked; present participle verb or noun Sidetracking.]. (references)

Synonyms: Sidetrack

Deviation

Stray, straggle; sidle; diverge; tralineate; digress, wander; wind, twist, meander; veer, tack; divagate; sidetrack; turn aside, turn a corner, turn away from; wheel, steer clear of; ramble, rove, drift; go astray, go adrift; yaw, dodge; step aside, ease off, make way for, shy.

Crosswords: Sidetrack

Books

• Blind Sidetrack (reference)

• Cowboy Life on the Sidetrack (reference)

• Kin - A Play by Sidetrack Theatre (reference)

• Sidetrack (reference)

• Sidetrack City and Other Tales (reference)

  (more book examples)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Expression using "sidetrack": get on the sidetrack. Additional references.

Albanian

devijoj (digress, diverge, divert), binarë devijimi (siding). (various references)

Arabic 

‏صرف شيئا عن غايته, ‏إنحرف عن الموضوع (digress), ‏إنحرف (astrict, deflect, depart, deviate, deviate from, diverge, divert, drift, incline, jibe, jump, nose, pervert, skew, slew, slue, squint, stray, swerve, swing, turn, veer), ‏إنحراف (aberration, cant, declination, deflection, deflexion, deformity, departure, depravity, deviation, deviousness, divergence, diversion, drift, excursion, immorality, inclination, list, obliqueness, obliquity, perversion, perversity, sheer, swerve, tangency, twist). (various references)

Bulgarian 

страничен коловоз (lay by), вкарвам в страничен коловоз, отклонявам разглеждането на, отклонявам от целта, отлагам (carry over, defer, delay, drive, hold over, lay over, leave over, lie over, postpone, precipitate, procrastinate, prorogue, put back, put off, put over, respite, scrub, shelve, shunt, stay, suspend), забавям (arrest, cool, defer, delay, detain, hang up, hold back, hold off, hold over, inhibit, postpone, put back, put over, retard, set back, slacken, slow, slow down, stave off, steady), запасен коловоз (siding). (various references)

Chinese 

�"�路侧线. (various references)

Czech

odvést pozornost, odlákat (entice away). (various references)

Dutch

voorbijboren (to drill by, to sidetrack), langs een vis een nieuw gat boren (to drill by, to sidetrack). (various references)

Farsi 

جاده فرعی (Spurtrack), ازامراصلی منحرف شدن . (various references)

French

faire dévier de son sujet, digression, dérouter, dériver. (various references)

German

rangiergleis (siding, spur), abstellgleis (siding). (various references)

Greek 

παρεκκλίνω (aberrate, deflect, depart, deviate, shunt, swerve), παραμερίζω (discard, override, put aside, put to one side, set aside, shelve, sideline, sidestep, stand aside). (various references)

Hebrew 

ל�"סיח את �"�"עת (deflect, distract). (various references)

Hungarian

mellékvágány (side-track, siding). (various references)

Indonesian

menggelincirkan (derail). (various references)

Italian

sviare (deviate, distract, divert, go astray, lead astray, mislead, misrepresent, swerve, turn, turn aside), smistare (shunt, sort, switch), mettere fuori strada. (various references)

Japanese Kanji 

側線 (side line, siding). (various references)

Japanese Katakana 

そくせ�" (abnormal substancecirculating in the blood, embolus, side line, siding). (various references)

Korean 

� �환 (converse). (various references)

Manx

fo-linney (extension), cheulagh (siding). (various references)

Pig Latin

idetracksay.(various references)

Portuguese

desvio (break, canting, crossroad, deflection, departure, detour, deviousness, digression, diversion, leakage, meander, misapplication, roundabout, set, shunt, siding, switch, turn, turnabout, turning, veering), adiar a solução de. (various references)

Russian 

уводить в сторону, запасный путь (siding), запасной путь. (various references)

Serbo-Croatian

sporedni kolosek (siding), skrenuti (avert, deflect, divert, shunt, switch, turn), otići na sporedni kolosek. (various references)

Spanish

vía muerta (siding), poner en vía muerta, desviar a (reroute, turn about), despistar (mislead), dejar de lado (brush aside, leave aside, pass by, put aside, set aside, shelve), cuestión de interés secundario, apartadero (pull in, rest area, rest stop). (various references)

Swedish

sidospor, växla in på ett sidorspår, växelspår (siding). (various references)

Thai

ทำให้ออกนอกประเ�"็น. (various references)

Turkish

yan yol (accommodation road, ancillary road, branch road, bypath, byroad, crossroad, shunt, side road, sideline, slip road), treni yan yola geçirmek, manevra hattı (siding), geciktirmek (adjourn, delay, hold up, impede, keep back, postpone, procrastinate, put back, retard, set back, stall, stall off, stave off), ertelemek (adjourn, carry over, continue, defer, delay, hang up, hold off, hold over, lay aside, lay by, lay over, leave over, postpone, procrastinate, put off, reprieve, reserve, respite, scrub, shelve, stay, suspend, table, waive), caydırmak (argue smb. out of smth., deter, dissuade, talk smb. out of smth., wean away from), önemsiz işlerle uğraştırmak. (various references)

Ukrainian

відводити вбік, запасна колія (siding), переводити на запасну колію, другорядна роль. (various references)

Derivations

Words beginning with "sidetrack": sidetracked, sidetracking, sidetracks. (additional references)

Misspellings

"Sidetrack" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Caderack, Salestrak. (additional references)

Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits.

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Direct Anagrams: trackside.

-1 letter: acridest.

-2 letters: aridest, astride, cakiest, credits, cristae, dackers, daikers, darkest, deticks, diaster, dickers, directs, disrate, drastic, karstic, raciest, rackets, radices, redacts, restack, retacks, rickets, scarted, sidecar, skirted, stacked, stacker, staider, stearic, sticked, sticker, straked, tackers, tackier, tardies, tickers, tirades, tracked, traiked, tricked.

-3 letters: aiders, airest, airted, arcked, cadets, cadres, cairds, cakier, carets, caried.

+1 letter: breadstick, sidetracks, tracksides.

+2 letters: breadsticks, kickstarted, sidetracked.

+3 letters: postcardlike, sidetracking, stickhandler.

+4 letters: stickhandlers.

+5 letters: straitjacketed.