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SIDEWAYS
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I. (adjective)
Sense 1
Meaning:
(of movement) at an angle
Synonyms:
crabwise; sideways
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Similar:
oblique (slanting or inclined in direction or course or position--neither parallel nor perpendicular nor right-angled)
II. (adverb)
Sense 1
Meaning:
To, toward or at one side
Example:
darting eyes looking sidelong out of a wizened face
Synonyms:
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Sense 2
Meaning:
Toward one side
Example:
a figure moving sidewise in the shadows
Synonyms:
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Sense 3
Meaning:
From the side; obliquely
Example:
scenes viewed sidewise
Synonyms:
sideway; sideways; sidewise
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Adverbs
Sense 4
Meaning:
With one side forward or to the front
Example:
crabs seeming to walk sidewise
Synonyms:
sideway; sideways; sidewise
Classified under:
Adverbs
Context examples:
Even grown dogs might hurtle him backward or sideways with the impact of their heavy bodies; and backward or sideways he would go, in the air or sliding on the ground, but always with his legs under him and his feet downward to the mother earth.
(White Fang, by Jack London)
He looked at me sideways, and said with his hardest grin, “You mean mother.”
(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)
One turned sideways as he dug his nails into the edge of it.
(The Return of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
When I returned with the rum, they were already seated on either side of the captain's breakfast-table—Black Dog next to the door and sitting sideways so as to have one eye on his old shipmate and one, as I thought, on his retreat.
(Treasure Island, by Robert Louis Stevenson)
He makes dreadful mouths as he rules the ciphering-book; and now he throws his eye sideways down our lane, and we all droop over our books and tremble.
(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)
He held the small table sideways to the electric light.
(The Return of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
Dora had helped him up on the sofa; where he really was defying my aunt to such a furious extent, that he couldn't keep straight, but barked himself sideways.
(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)
I remarked that, once or twice when Mr. Quinion was talking, he looked at Mr. Murdstone sideways, as if to make sure of his not being displeased; and that once when Mr. Passnidge (the other gentleman) was in high spirits, he trod upon his foot, and gave him a secret caution with his eyes, to observe Mr. Murdstone, who was sitting stern and silent.
(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)
This idea of Mrs. Micawber's, my dear Copperfield, said Mr. Micawber, making his shirt-collar meet in front of his chin, and glancing at me sideways, is, in fact, the Leap to which I alluded, when I last had the pleasure of seeing you.
(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)
He certainly did look uncommonly like the carved face on the beam outside my window, as he sat, in his humility, eyeing me sideways, with his mouth widened, and the creases in his cheeks.
(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)
