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Definition: Sideway |
SidewayAdverb1. With one side forward or to the front; "turned sideways to show the profile"; "crabs seeming to walk sidewise". 2. From the side; obliquely; "a picture lit sideways"; "scenes viewed sidewise". 3. Toward one side; "the car slipped sideways into the ditch"; "leaning sideways"; "a figure moving sidewise in the shadows". Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "sideway" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1817. (references) |
Synonyms: SidewaySynonyms: sideways (adv), sidewise (adv). (additional references) |
Crosswords: Sideway |
| Specialty definitions using "sideway": Howell-bunger valve. (references) |
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High Tech |
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Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| "Sideway" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Sideway" is used about 3 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Noun (singular) | 100% | 3 | 202,518 |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day |
sideway | 4 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "sideway"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Arabic | من الجنب (edgeways, edgewise, sideways), طريق جانبي (bypass, side road, turnoff). (various references) | |
Czech | stranou (aloof, apart, aside, by, sideward, sidewards, sideways). (various references) | |
Danish | sidelaens plasmadrift til vaeggen (sideway drift to the wall). (various references) | |
Dutch | zijdelingse drift naar de wand (sideway drift to the wall). (various references) | |
Farsi | یک طرفه , فرعی (Accessory, Adjunct, Ancillary, By, Bye, Derivative, Extraneous, Inferior, Petty, Secondary, Subordinate, Subsidiary, Tributary), غیرمستقیم (Devious, Indirect, Oblique, Sinuous, Tortuous), ازپهلو (Besides, By, Sideview). (various references) | |
French | dérive latérale vers la paroi (sideway drift to the wall). (various references) | |
German | Seitenweg (by path, bypath, byway). (various references) | |
Greek | πλαγίωσ (sidelong, sideways, slantingly, thwart), λοξώσ (askance, asquint, bias, sideways, slantwise). (various references) | |
Italian | deriva laterale verso le pareti (sideway drift to the wall). (various references) | |
Pig Latin | idewaysay.(various references) | |
Russian | окольный путь (back way, circumbendibus, detour). (various references) | |
Spanish | oblicuo (aslant, eluding, evasive, oblique, sidelong, sideward, sidewards, sideways, sidewise, skew), oblicuamente (askance, aslant, athwart, obliquely, sidelong, sideward, sidewards, sideways, sidewise, slantwise), lateral (lateral, side, sidelong, sideward, sidewards, sideways, sidewise), hacia un lado (sideward, sidewards, sideways, sidewise), de soslayo (askew, sidelong, sideward, sidewards, sideways, sidewise), de reojo (askance, askew, sideward, sidewards, sideways, sidewise), de lado (edgeways, endways, endwise, sideward, sidewards, sideways, sidewise), de costado (alongside, broadside, sidelong, sideward, sidewards, sideways, sidewise). (various references) | |
Ukrainian | косо (askance, askew, aslant, aslope, athwart, awry, obliquely, sidelong, sideways, sidewise, slant, slantwise, splay), косий (askew, awry, bevel, boss-eyed, cock eyed, cockeyed, cross-eyed, diagonal, oblique, sidelong, sideways, sidewise, skew, slant, slanting, splay), непрямий (devious, implied, indirect, oblique, sideways, sidewise, vicarious), збоку (sideways, sidewise), боком (sidelong, sideways, sidewise). (various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "sideway": sideways. (additional references) | |
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"Sideway" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: cedewain, cydewain, hideway, Saddawi, Sadovaya, Sadowa, Saxeway, sidew, Sidiya, Sidway, sineway. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
Direct Anagrams: wayside. | |
| Words within the letters "a-d-e-i-s-w-y" | |
-1 letter: swayed, wadies. | |
-2 letters: aides, aside, daisy, ideas, sawed, sayid, wades, wadis, wides, wised, yawed. | |
-3 letters: aide, aids, awed, awes, ayes, dais, daws, days, dews, dewy, deys, dies, dyes, easy, eyas, idea, ides, sade, sadi, said, side, sway, wade, wadi, wads, wady, waes, ways, weds, wide, wise, wyes, yaws, yeas, yews, yids, ywis. | |
-4 letters: ads. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-d-e-i-s-w-y" | |
+1 letter: sideways, slideway, tideways, waysides. | |
+2 letters: driveways, guideways, hideaways, slideways. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. SCRABBLE® is a registered trademark. All intellectual property rights in and to the game are owned in the U.S.A and Canada by Hasbro Inc., and throughout the rest of the world by J.W. Spear & Sons Limited of Maidenhead, Berkshire, England, a subsidiary of Mattel Inc. Mattel and Spear are not affiliated with Hasbro. | |
| 1. Definition 2. Synonyms 3. Crosswords 4. Usage: Commercial | 5. Usage Frequency 6. Expressions: Internet 7. Translations: Modern 8. Derivations | 9. Anagrams 10. Bibliography |
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