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SIDE BY SIDE
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I. (adjective)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Nearest in space or position; immediately adjoining without intervening space
Example:
our rooms were side by side
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close (at or within a short distance in space or time or having elements near each other)
Sense 2
Meaning:
Closely related or associated
Example:
a city in which communism and democracy had to live side by side
Classified under:
Similar:
related; related to (being connected either logically or causally or by shared characteristics)
Context examples:
Soul and body walked or crawled side by side, yet apart, so slender was the thread that bound them.
(Love of Life and Other Stories, by Jack London)
But as soon as the first rays of the sun shone into the garden he saw all the ten sacks standing side by side, quite full, and not a single grain was missing.
(Fairy Tales, by The Brothers Grimm)
He waved his hand to the sofa, and our palpitating visitor with his agitated companion sat side by side upon it.
(His Last Bow, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
As they closed Jim caught his opponent’s bullet head under his arm for an instant, and put a couple of half-arm blows in; but the prize-fighter pulled him over by his weight, and the two fell panting side by side upon the ground.
(Rodney Stone, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
He went in with a sounding plunge; the red cap came off and remained floating on the surface; and as soon as the splash subsided, I could see him and Israel lying side by side, both wavering with the tremulous movement of the water.
(Treasure Island, by Robert Louis Stevenson)
Everything now marked out Louisa for Captain Wentworth; nothing could be plainer; and where many divisions were necessary, or even where they were not, they walked side by side nearly as much as the other two.
(Persuasion, by Jane Austen)
Grant's meadow she immediately saw the group—Edmund and Miss Crawford both on horse-back, riding side by side, Dr. and Mrs. Grant, and Mr. Crawford, with two or three grooms, standing about and looking on.
(Mansfield Park, by Jane Austen)
They went some paces off, as if it were to confer together, walking side by side, backward and forward, like persons deliberating upon some affair of weight, but often turning their eyes towards me, as it were to watch that I might not escape.
(Gulliver's Travels into several remote nations of the world, by Jonathan Swift)
They sat side by side upon our paper-littered settee, and it was easy to see from their worn and anxious faces that it was business of the most pressing importance which had brought them.
(The Return of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
Lucy made room for her with ready attention, and the two fair rivals were thus seated side by side at the same table, and, with the utmost harmony, engaged in forwarding the same work.
(Sense and Sensibility, by Jane Austen)
