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ALONGSIDE
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I. (adverb)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Side by side
Example:
anchored close aboard another ship
Synonyms:
aboard; alongside
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Context examples:
We’d love to know whether honeyguides have learnt this language-like variation in human signals across Africa, allowing them to recognise good collaborators among the local people living alongside them.
(How humans and wild Honeyguide birds call each other to help, The Titi Tudorancea Bulletin)
Paleontologists have discovered an almost complete skull of a previously unknown mammal that likely resembled a large modern-day groundhog and lived alongside dinosaurs.
(Scientists discover fossil of bizarre groundhog-like mammal on Madagascar, NSF)
Alongside the thigh bone, volunteers with the National Museum of Natural History in Paris also uncovered a giant pelvis bone from the same layer of clay.
(140 Million-Year-Old Dinosaur’s Huge Bone Found in Southwest France, The Titi Tudorancea Bulletin)
A test commonly administered to assess the physiologic response to extending the arms as straight as possible alongside the body when lying down.
(Arm Recoil, NCI Thesaurus)
As our tandem came alongside of the four-in-hand, with the two bonny bay mares gleaming like shot-silk in the sunshine, a murmur of admiration rose from the crowd.
(Rodney Stone, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
“One moment. I thank you, sir;” and the clerk laid the two sheets of paper alongside and sedulously compared their contents.
(The Strange Case Of Dr. Jekyll And Mr. Hyde, by Robert Louis Stevenson)
We made the water fly, and the boat was soon alongside and I aboard the schooner.
(Treasure Island, by Robert Louis Stevenson)
In a b-sheet two or more polypeptide chains run alongside each other and are linked in a regular manner by hydrogen bonds between the main chain C=O and N-H groups.
(Beta Sheet, NCI Thesaurus)
The result obtained from a test commonly administered to assess the physiologic response to extending the arms as straight as possible alongside the body when lying down.
(Arm Recoil Result, NCI Thesaurus)
This is one of the three major branches of philosophy, alongside metaphysics and logic.
(Ethics, NCI Thesaurus)
