SIDEWAYS Definition & Meaning

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sideways

[ sahyd-weyz ]

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adverb

with a side foremost.
facing to the side.
toward or from one side.
with a deceitful, scornful, disparaging, or amorous glance.

adjective

moving, facing, or directed toward one side.
indirect or evasive.

sideways

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adverb

moving, facing, or inclining towards one side
from one side; obliquely
with one side forward

adjective

moving or directed to or from one side
towards or from one side

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Origin of sideways¹

First recorded in 1570–80; side ¹ + -ways

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Idioms and Phrases

see knock for a loop (sideways) ; look sideways at .

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Dr Rebecca Bell, a reader in tectonics at Imperial College London, said that to accommodate all of this motion, faults - cracks in the rock - form which allow tectonic plates to "slither" sideways.

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In space, there is no up, down or sideways.

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In France's tournament opener, after their heavy brigade had bashed away at a stubborn Wales defence for 12 phases, Dupont picked up the ball and dawdled sideways and backwards off the back of the breakdown.

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But the situation went sideways in Year 2.

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You've probably seen those videos of passenger planes "crabbing" and landing almost sideways in strong winds.

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