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Definition of Sideways
1. Adjective. (of movement) at an angle.
2. Adverb. With one side forward or to the front. "Crabs seeming to walk sidewise"
3. Adverb. From the side; obliquely. "Scenes viewed sidewise"
4. Adverb. Toward one side. "A figure moving sidewise in the shadows"
5. Adverb. To, toward or at one side. "Darting eyes looking sidelong out of a wizened face"
Definition of Sideways
1. adv. Toward the side; sidewise.
Definition of Sideways
1. Adjective. Moving or directed toward one side. ¹
2. Adjective. (informal) Positioned sideways (gloss with a side to the front). ¹
3. Adjective. (informal) Neither moving upward nor moving downward. ¹
4. Adjective. (context: usually with "with" informal) In conflict (with); not compatible (with). ¹
5. Adverb. With a side to the front. ¹
6. Adverb. Towards one side. ¹
7. Adverb. Askance; sidelong. ¹
8. Adverb. (informal) Neither upward nor downward. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Sideways
1. toward or from one side [adv]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Sideways
Literary usage of Sideways
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Gymnastic Teaching by William Skarstrom (1921)
"Arm flinging sideways upward with alternate foot placing forward. Alternate foot
placing sideways with hands on neck, and heel raising. ..."
2. Gymnastic Teaching by William Skarstrom (1921)
"Arm flinging sideways upward with alternate foot placing forward. Alternate foot
placing sideways with hands on neck, and heel raising. ..."
3. The Journal of the Linnean Society by Linnean Society of London (1857)
"121, showing the spinose posterior femora: 3 n, the head seen in front; 3 b, the
same seen sideways ; 3 e, the antenna. Fig. 4. ..."
4. Gymnastics: A Text-book of the German-American System of Gymnastics by William Albin Stecher (1896)
"1 DAC sideways right; DEC sideways right in rear of the shoulders ... 7 One-half
DAC sideways right, DHC sideways right in front the arms extended downward ..."
5. United States Supreme Court Reports by Lawyers Co-operative Publishing Company, United States Supreme Court (1885)
"Court, US ing lever fast when in the locking position, so that it could not be
moved sideways from the outside, but only from the inside, by disengaging it ..."
6. Jackanapes: Daddy Darwin's Dovecot. The Story of a Short Life by Juliana Horatia Gatty Ewing, Horatia K. F. Gatty (1887)
"He failed again from top-heaviness, and his prey escaped sideways as before, and,
as before, lost ground in getting back to the direct road to the Pond. ..."
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