English Dictionary

side

/saɪd/

noun

A bounding straight edge of a two-dimensional shape. / A flat surface of a three-dimensional object; a face. / One half (left or right, top or bottom, front or back, etc.) of something or someone.

I prefer to sit on the side of the room during meetings.

意味（1）

A bounding straight edge of a two-dimensional shape.

A square has four sides.

意味（2）

A flat surface of a three-dimensional object; a face.

A cube has six sides.

意味（3）

One half (left or right, top or bottom, front or back, etc.) of something or someone.

Which side of the tray shall I put it on? The patient was bleeding on the right side.

意味（4）

A region in a specified position with respect to something.

Meet me on the north side of the monument.

意味（5）

The portion of the human torso usually covered by the arms when they are not raised; the areas on the left and right between the belly or chest and the back.

I generally sleep on my side.

意味（6）

One surface of a sheet of paper (used instead of "page", which can mean one or both surfaces.)

John wrote 15 sides for his essay!

意味（7）

One possible aspect of a concept, person, or thing.

Look on the bright side.

意味（8）

One set of competitors in a game.

Which side has kick-off?

意味（9）

(UK, Australia, Ireland) A sports team.

Newly promoted, they were top of the First Division and unbeaten when they took on a Manchester United side that had been revitalized by a new manager,[…].

意味（10）

A group of morris dancers who perform together.

意味（11）

A group having a particular allegiance in a conflict or competition.

In the Second World War, the Italians were on the side of the Germans until Italy switched sides in 1943.

意味（12）

(music) A recorded piece of music; a record, especially in jazz.

But Bechet chafed under even the loose discipline of the Ellington group, and left. Through these years he wandered, making only a few sides, at the moment when jazz records were beginning to flood onto the market.

意味（13）

(sports, billiards, snooker, pool) Sidespin; english

He had to put a bit of side on to hit the pink ball.

意味（14）

(Britain, Australia, Ireland, dated) A television channel, usually as opposed to the one currently being watched (from when there were only two channels).

I just want to see what's on the other side — James said there was a good film on tonight.

意味（15）

(US, colloquial) A dish that accompanies the main course; a side dish.

Do you want a side of cole-slaw with that?

意味（16）

A line of descent traced through a particular parent, as distinguished from that traced through another.

his mother's side of the family

意味（17）

(baseball) The batters faced in an inning by a particular pitcher.

Clayton Kershaw struck out the side in the 6th inning.

意味（18）

(slang, dated, uncountable) An unjustified air of self-importance.

His manner never had been modest or retiring. Now it was unmistakably swanky; he was putting on side to an extent that made fellows who observed him smile and shrug their shoulders.

意味（19）

(drama) A written monologue or part of a scene to be read by an actor at an audition.

Some directors use full scripts (book); others use “sides,” which consist of one or two words of the cue and the subsequent full speech of the individual actor.

意味（20）

(LGBT, slang) A man who prefers not to engage in anal sex during same-sex sexual activity.

My boyfriend and I are both sides; we prefer to do oral and other stuff.