Word Finder - sides

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A bounding straight edge of a two-dimensional shape.

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A square has four sides.

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

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A cube has six sides.

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

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

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A region in a specified position with respect to something.

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Meet me on the north side of the monument.

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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.

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I generally sleep on my side.

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

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John wrote 15 sides for his essay!

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One possible aspect of a concept, person or thing.

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Look on the bright side.

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One set of competitors in a game.

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Which side has kick-off?

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A sports team.

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

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In the second world war, the Italians were on the side of the Germans.

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

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Sidespin; english

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

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

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

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A dish that accompanies the main course; a side dish.

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

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A line of descent traced through one parent as distinguished from that traced through another.

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his mother's side of the family

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The batters faced in an inning by a particular pitcher

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

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An unjustified air of self-importance.

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

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A man who prefers not to engage in anal sex during homosexual intercourse.

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My boyfriend and I are both sides, so we prefer to do oral on each other.

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To ally oneself, be in an alliance, usually with "with" or rarely "in with"

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Which will you side with, good or evil?

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To lean on one side.

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To be or stand at the side of; to be on the side toward.

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To suit; to pair; to match.

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To work (a timber or rib) to a certain thickness by trimming the sides.

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To furnish with a siding.

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to side a house

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To provide with, as a side or accompaniment.

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To clear, tidy or sort.

He dropped his hands to his sides and stared at himself.

What are the down sides of drinking?

He nodded and dropped his arms to his sides, moving lithely away from the tree.

The Apulian volcanic formation consists of the great mass of Monte Volture, which rises at the west end of the plains of Apulia, on the frontier of Basilicata, and is surrounded by the Apennines on its south-west and north-west sides.

In Sardinia it covers the mountain slopes to a considerable height, and in Sicily covers the sides of the Madonie range, reaching a level above 3000 ft.

The Calabrian Alps, the less rocky sides of the Apulian Murgie and the whole length of the Apennines are covered at different heights, according to their situation.

The income of 60,741,418 in 1881 rose in 1899-1900 to 69,917,126; while the expenditure increased from 58,705,929 in 1881 to 69,708,706 in 1899-1900, an increase of 9,175,708 in income and 11,002,777 in expenditure, while there has been a still further increase since, the figures for 1905-1906 showing (excluding items which figure on both sides of the account) an increase of 8,766,995 in income and 5,434,560 in expenditure over 1899-1900.

Coast roads of minor importance as means of through communication also existed on both sides of the toe of the boot.

Thus the titular king of Italy found himself simultaneously at war with those great vassals who had chosen him from their own class, with the turbulent factions of the Roman aristocracy, with unruly bishops in the growing cities and with the multitude of minor counts and barons who occupied the open lands, and who changed sides according to the interests of the moment.

At the same time, the change which had now come over Italian politics, the desire on all sides for a settlement, and the growing conviction that a federation was necessary, proved advantageous to the popes as sovereigns.

There were corn fields on both sides of a dirt road and I was at a crossing.

He swiveled his head, back and forth between sides, unwilling as usual to make a decision.

A dark shape moved from the rocks while three more fanned out from the sides.

While Jennifer didn't complain, Dean could see her hands gripping the sides of the vehicle tightly as they moved steadily upward.

She didn't move away or object when he allowed his palms to skim her curves, tracing down her sides to her hips then around to her tight bottom.

She had removed the sides of the shelter a few weeks ago for the summer so they would have fresh air and a breeze as well.

The tiny specs indicating crafts or personnel in the 3D image moved and changed; the image itself spun slowly, as if to present her with all sides of the battle at once.

I influence others without choosing sides, he said vaguely.

Her hands were by her sides, turned out, as if offering benediction for what she had done, as if to say, peace at last.

Jackson stood close enough to hear both sides of the conversation.

When he donned the wolf's head, she slapped her hands to the sides of her face in mock horror.

The full-length, sequined halter gown she wore clung to every curve and sported slits on both sides clear up to the hip.

Jackson could hear both sides of the conversation.

A civil war where both sides have enough dangerous shit to destroy the world twenty times over.

His high-water trousers exposed black silk socks with little ladders up the sides, held in place with garters, something Dean hadn't seen in decades.

Just making the Parkside High baseball team had been a miraculous ascension from being the-you-take-him-we-don't-want-him-boy when the kids chose sides in sandlot games.

In any event, there's a lot of money missing and both sides are at war over it.

The hollows in her sides were deep shadows.

Of course, there were two sides to every story, but from what he had observed first hand, she was right.

His hands were balled into fists at his sides and the knuckles were white.

A quiet breeze traveled between massive wooden doors opened on both sides of the great hall.

The warrior led her to a wooden wagon, enclosed on all sides except for a small window.

He dropped his arms to his sides and shook his head.

The winter suspended operations, and both sides made exertions to increase their forces.

In about ten days, when the mass is milkwarm, the bed will be ready for spawning, which consists of inserting small pieces of spawn bricks into the sloping sides of the bed, about 6 in.

The city lies on the west side of the low island of Manzanillo, is bordered on the landward sides by swamp, and consists mainly of unimposing frame houses and small shops.

He shall ride to the place where he holds court, greeting the people on both sides.

The dock and victualling yards occupy together an area of some i oo acres spread over the shores on both sides of those arms of the great harbour known as "Dockyard" and "French" creeks, the dockyard being partly on the former, but principally on the latter creek.

In the negotiations which followed, it was arranged that the bay and the land on both sides of the entrance within certain defined lines should be leased to Germany for 99 years.

The eyepiece ab consists of two plano-convex lenses a, b, of nearly the same focal length, and with the two convex sides facing each other.

The obvious remedy is to make all measures on opposite sides of the fixed web before reversing in position-angle - a precaution, however, which no careful observer would neglect.

If the errors of the rectangular co-ordinates of these lines are known, the problem of determining the co-ordinates of any star-image on the plate becomes reduced to the comparatively simple one of interpolating the co-ordinates of the star relative to the sides of the 5 mm.

At Greenwich, Oxford and several other observatories, instead of measuring the distances of the star's image from the opposite sides of the 5 mm.

The double webs composing the sides of the fixed square shall be strictly parallel, and shall form a true square of exactly ten revolutions of the screw on the side.

The image of a normal reseau-square, as viewed in the microscope, shall exactly coincide with the square formed by the fixed webs - that is to say, the image of the sides of a normal reseau-square shall measure exactly io screw-revolutions.

The city extends for several miles along both sides of the river, and is in a good farming district, with which it is connected by stone roads.

The rupture of the concordat at once terminates the obligations which resulted from it on both sides; but it does not break off all relation between the church and the state, since the two societies continue to coexist on the same territory.

On the 15th of November the Exclusion Bill, having passed the Commons, was brought up to the Lords, and an historic debate took place, in which Halifax and Shaftesbury were the leaders on opposite sides.

In the one the pattern consists of narrow vertical stripes, and in the other of longitudinal or obliquely longitudinal stripes, which, on the sides of the body, tend to assume a spiral or sub-circular arrangement characteristic of the blotched tabby.

His family on both sides was of Poitevin descent.