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Definition: Sideways |
SidewaysAdjective1. (of movement) at an angle. Adverb1. 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". 4. To toward or at one side; "darting eyes looking sidelong out of a wizened face". Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "sideways" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1596. (references) |
Synonyms: SidewaysSynonyms: crabwise (adj), obliquely (adv), sidelong (adv), sideway (adv), sidewise (adv). (additional references) |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Laterality | Adverb: sideways, sidelong; broadside on; on one side, abreast, alongside, beside, aside; by the side of; side by side; cheek by jowl; (near); to windward, to leeward; laterally; Adjective: right and left; on her beam ends. |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
Crosswords: Sideways |
| English words defined with "sideways": careen, cartwheel, cope, coping, Crab spider ♦ dance ♦ fishtail ♦ header ♦ leeway ♦ sashay, shift, side-glance, side-look, sideslip, side-slip, sideway, sidewise, sidle, skid, slew, slide, slip, slue, sway ♦ tilt, tremble ♦ wobble. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "sideways": Angular Response Characterization ♦ bunker conveyor ♦ CUTTER-OPERATOR HELPER ♦ jubilee wagon ♦ KNITTER, WIRE MESH, knitting-machine operator ♦ lateral extrusion ♦ rotary dumper ♦ SANDING-MACHINE BUFFER, sideslipping, side-to-side vibration, sideways extrusion, slewing, sling psychrometer ♦ tug reed ♦ wingtip vortices. (references) |
| Etymologies containing "sideways": Askance. (references) |
| Domain | Usage | |
Screenplays | Her first born come out sideways, she didn't scream or nothin (Planes, Trains & Automobiles; writing credit: John Hughes.) Well suck me sideways! (Dumb & Dumber; writing credit: Peter Farrelly; Bennett Yellin) He died like he lived, sideways. (Blazing Saddles ; writing credit: Andrew Bergman, Mel Brooks, Richard Pryor, Norman Steinberg, Alan Uger) Her idea of improvisation is putting a dick in her mouth sideways. (The Last Days of Frankie the Fly; writing credit: Dayton Callie) You can take your beers and shove 'em up your ass sideways. Can you dig it (The Last Detail; writing credit: Robert Towne) | |
Lyrics | You say you're happy but your mind is slidin' sideways (Lunatic To Love; performing artist: The Residents) | |
Movie/TV Titles | The Largest Boat Ever Launched Sideways (1913) Blown Sideways Through Life (1995) Sideways - Down Over - Under (1977) | |
Song Titles | Crabs Walk Sideways (performing artist: Smothers Brothers) | |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | ||
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Books | |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
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| "Eye-bw" by Mark Low Commentary: "Closeup of an eye, lookin' sideways If you use it, please email me. I just like to know (and see) how it gets used." | "Bachelor Button Closeup" by Lynn Cummings Commentary: "Taken sideways intentionally--just cuz I needed a new desktop. ;-)." |
Source: photographs selected by the editor, with permission from the photographers. | |
| Title | Author | Quote |
Hiawatha's Photographing | Carroll, Lewis | Gracefully she sat down sideways, With a simper scarcely human, Holding in her hand a bouquet Rather larger than a cabbage |
Grapes of Wrath | Steinbeck, John | It rubbed sideways against his arms, and he reached out with his hand and pulled it against his cheek |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | ||
| "Sideways" is generally used as an adverb (general) -- approximately 91.05% of the time. "Sideways" is used about 915 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 |
| Adverb (general) | 91.05% | 833 | 8,435 |
| Adjective (general or positive) | 8.84% | 81 | 36,835 |
| Noun (plural) | 0.11% | 1 | 339,140 |
| Total | 100.00% | 915 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
Expressions using "sideways": jump sideways ♦ sideways chaining ♦ sideways extrusion ♦ sideways file scroll ♦ slip sideways ♦ turn sideways ♦ turning sideways. Additional references. | |
| Hyphenated Usage | |
Beginning with "sideways": sideways-facing, sideways-force, sideways-gliding, sideways-moving, sideways-on, sideways-scrolling. | |
Ending with "sideways": half-sideways. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; 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 |
sideways | 24 |
sideways story from wayside school | 10 |
person sideways sitting | 4 |
sideways vagina | 4 |
alexander payne sideways | 3 |
lyrics santana sideways | 3 |
promotion sideways | 3 |
driving sideways | 2 |
drifting sideways | 2 |
armada sideways transformer | 2 |
pussy sideways | 2 |
santana sideways | 2 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "sideways"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Albanian | skiç (askance, askew, rakish), tërthor (abeam, aslant, athwart, criss cross, cross, sidelong, transversal, transverse, traverse), anash (alongside, askance, edgeways, edgewise, laterally, sideward, sidewards, wide), anësor (collateral, fringe, lateral, marginal, peripheral, secondary, side, sidelong, wing, winger). (various references) | |
Arabic | من الجنب (edgeways, edgewise, sideway), بإنحراف (aslant, with digression). (various references) | |
Bulgarian | с рамото напред (sidewards), косо (awry, cockeye, obliquely, sidewards, slantways, slantwise), кос (bevel, blackbird, oblique, ousel, ouzel, sidelong, sideward, skew, slantways, slantwise, splay, thwart, transversal, transverse), отстрани (aboard, sidelings, sidewards). (various references) | |
Chinese | 斜向一边. (various references) | |
Czech | stranou (aloof, apart, aside, by, sideward, sidewards, sideway), bokem (edgeways, edgewise). (various references) | |
Danish | stationært marked (range-trading market, sideways market, trendless market/price), sidevendt radar (sideways-looking radar), sidelaens koerestilling (sideways running), sidelaens gang (sideways running), søgning i to retninger (bidirectional chaining, bidirectional search, rule value approach, sideways chaining), tværflydepresning (lateral extrusion, sideways extrusion), trendløst marked (range-trading market, sideways market, trendless market/price), rektangel (congestion area, rectangle, rectangle formation, sideways consolidation area), rækkegennemløb (horizontal file scroll, lateral file scroll, row scroll, sideways file scroll), marked hvor kurserne bevæger sig sidelæns (range-trading market, sideways market, trendless market/price), marked der bevæger sig sidelæns (range-trading market, sideways market, trendless market/price), møgspreder med spredning til siden (side delivery manure spreader, sideways unloading manure spreader), horisontalt filgennemløb (horizontal file scroll, lateral file scroll, row scroll, sideways file scroll), bidirektionel søgning (bidirectional chaining, bidirectional search, rule value approach, sideways chaining). (various references) | |
Dutch | stationaire markt/prijs (range-trading market, sideways market, trendless market/price), stand van zijdelings aanlopen (sideways running), schuiven van rijen (horizontal file scroll, lateral file scroll, row scroll, sideways file scroll), zijwaartse extrusie (lateral extrusion, sideways extrusion), zijwaarts gerichte radar met synthetische apertuur (sideways-looking synthetic aperture radar), zijstrooier (side delivery manure spreader, sideways unloading manure spreader), zijdelingse extrusie (lateral extrusion, sideways extrusion), rollen van rijen (horizontal file scroll, lateral file scroll, row scroll, sideways file scroll), opzijkijkende radar (sideways-looking radar), evenwichtsprijs/markt (range-trading market, sideways market, trendless market/price), eenzijdig aanlopen (sideways running), bidirectionele zoekmethode (bidirectional chaining, bidirectional search, rule value approach, sideways chaining). (various references) | |
Finnish | suorakulmio (congestion area, rectangle formation, sideways consolidation area), tungosalue (congestion area, rectangle formation, sideways consolidation area), trendittömät markkinat (range-trading market, sideways market, trendless market/price), poikittaispursotus (lateral extrusion, sideways extrusion), poikittaispuristus (lateral extrusion, sideways extrusion), kaksisuuntainen haku (bidirectional chaining, bidirectional search, rule value approach, sideways chaining). (various references) | |
French | obliquement, oblique (sidelong), latéralement, de profil, de côté (side, sidelong, sidy). (various references) | |
German | seitwärts (askance, askew, laterally, sidelong, sideward, sidewards). (various references) | |
Greek | πλαγίωσ (sidelong, sideway, slantingly, thwart), λοξώσ (askance, asquint, bias, sideway, slantwise). (various references) | |
Hebrew | מן הצד, מצודד (crabwise, sidelong), לצדדים (sidewise), הצידה (apart, aside, sideward), צדדי (accessory, incidental, lateral, side, sidelong, subsidiary). (various references) | |
Hungarian | oldalt (aside, laterally, sidelong, sideward, sidewards), oldalról (laterally, sideward, sidewards), oldal- (lateral, side, sideward). (various references) | |
Indonesian | menyamping. (various references) | |
Italian | lateralmente (laterally), da un lato (on one hand), con la coda d'occhio. (various references) | |
Japanese Kanji | 横様 (unreasonable, wickedness), 横に (across, crossways, crosswise, horizontally). (various references) | |
Japanese Katakana | よこざま (unreasonable, wickedness), よこさま (unreasonable, wickedness), よこに (across, crossways, crosswise, horizontally). (various references) | |
Korean | 옆쪽으로 (sidewise). (various references) | |
Manx | lhiasragh (sidewards). (various references) | |
Pig Latin | idewayssay.(various references) | |
Portuguese | rua lateral, lateralmente (asquint, sideward, sidewards), de lado (aside, askance, askant, askew, bias, side, sideling, sidelong, sideward, sidewards, up). (various references) | |
Romanian | pe o parte, lateral (lateral, laterally, side, sidewise), de o parte (aside, sidelong). (various references) | |
Russian | в сторону (aside, sideward, sidewards), боком. (various references) | |
Scottish | siar (move obliquely, westward). (various references) | |
Serbo-Croatian | ustranu (sidelong, sideward, sidewards), postrance (sideling), bočni (aisle, lateral, overside, side, sideling, sidelong). (various references) | |
Spanish | oblicuo (aslant, eluding, evasive, oblique, sidelong, sideward, sidewards, sideway, sidewise, skew), oblicuamente (askance, aslant, athwart, obliquely, sidelong, sideward, sidewards, sideway, sidewise, slantwise), lateralmente (sidelong), lateral (lateral, side, sidelong, sideward, sidewards, sideway, sidewise), hacia un lado (sideward, sidewards, sideway, sidewise), de soslayo (askew, sidelong, sideward, sidewards, sideway, sidewise), de reojo (askance, askew, sideward, sidewards, sideway, sidewise), de lado (edgeways, endways, endwise, sideward, sidewards, sideway, sidewise), de costado (alongside, broadside, sidelong, sideward, sidewards, sideway, sidewise). (various references) | |
Swedish | sido- (collateral, incidental, lateral, sidelong), på snedden (aslant, on the skew), på sned (askew, aslant, awry, on a slant, on one side, slantways, slantwise). (various references) | |
Thai | โดยมองไปด้านข้าง, ซึ่งมองไปด้านข้าง. (various references) | |
Turkish | yanlamasına (askew, aslant, edgeways, edgewise, laterally, sidelong, sideward, sidewards, sidewise), yandan (flanking, laterally, sideward, sidewards, sidewise), yana (sideward, sidewards, sidewise), yan yan (askance, edgeways, edgewise, sideward, sidewards, sidewise). (various references) | |
Ukrainian | косо (askance, askew, aslant, aslope, athwart, awry, obliquely, sidelong, sideway, sidewise, slant, slantwise, splay), косий (askew, awry, bevel, boss-eyed, cock eyed, cockeyed, cross-eyed, diagonal, oblique, sidelong, sideway, sidewise, skew, slant, slanting, splay), непрямий (devious, implied, indirect, oblique, sideway, sidewise, vicarious), збоку (sideway, sidewise), боком (sidelong, sideway, sidewise). (various references) | |
Vietnamese | về một bên (apart, aside, askance, askant, one-sided, sidewise), qua một bên (sidewise). (various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
| Language | Period | Translations |
| Latin | 500 BCE-Modern | lima, limo, limum. (various references) |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | ||
Misspellings | |
"Sideways" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: rideways, sideywyes, Sidway. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "sideways" (pronounced sī"dwā'z) |
| 4 | -d w ā' z | foodways, roadways. |
| 3 | -w ā' z | airways, alleyways, always, anyways, byways, Castaways, causeways, doorways, driveways, edgeways, fairways, folkways, freeways, gateways, getaways, giveaways, hallways, highways, lengthways, outweighs, pathways, railways, runaways, runways, stairways, subways, superhighways, walkways, waterways. |
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
Direct Anagrams: waysides. | |
| Words within the letters "a-d-e-i-s-s-w-y" | |
-1 letter: sideway, wayside. | |
-2 letters: asides, daises, dassie, sayids, swayed, wadies, wissed. | |
-3 letters: aides, aside, assed, daisy, essay, ideas, sades, sadis, saids, sawed, sayid, sides, sways, wades, wadis, wides, wised, wises, yawed. | |
-4 letters: aide, aids, awed, awes, ayes, dais, daws, days, dews, dewy, deys, dies, diss, dyes, easy, eyas, idea, ides, sade, sadi, said, saws, says. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-d-e-i-s-s-w-y" | |
+1 letter: slideways. | |
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| 1. Definition 2. Synonyms 3. Crosswords 4. Usage: Modern | 5. Usage: Commercial 6. Images: Slideshow 7. Images: Digital Art 8. Quotations: Fiction | 9. Usage Frequency 10. Expressions 11. Expressions: Internet 12. Translations: Modern | 13. Translations: Ancient 14. Derivations 15. Rhymes 16. Anagrams | 17. Bibliography |
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