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transitive
1. adj. Making a transit or passage.
2. adj. Affected by transference of signification.
3. adj. (grammar, of a verb) Taking an object or objects.
The English verb "to notice" is a transitive verb, because we say things like "She noticeda problem".
4. adj. (set theory, of a relation on a set) Having the property that if an element x is related to y and y is related to z, then x is necessarily related to z.
"Is an ancestor of" is a transitive relation: if Alice is an ancestor of Bob, and Bob is an ancestor of Carol, then Alice is an ancestor of Carol.
5. adj. (algebra, of a group action) Such that, for any two elements of the acted-upon set, some group element maps the first to the second.
6. adj. (graph theory, of a graph) Such that, for any two vertices there exists an automorphism which maps one to the other.
shipbuilding
1. n. The construction of ships.
2. n. A construction of a ship.
to
1. part. A particle used for marking the following verb as an infinitive.
I want to leave.
He asked me what to do.
I don’t know how to say it.
I have places to go and people to see.
2. part. As above, with the verb implied.
"Did you visit the museum?" "I wanted to, but it was closed.".
If he hasn't read it yet, he ought to.
3. part. A particle used to create phrasal verbs.
I have to do laundry today.
4. prep. Indicating destination: In the direction of, and arriving at.
We are walking to the shop.
5. prep. Used to indicate purpose.
He devoted himself to education.
They drank to his health.
6. prep. Used to indicate result of action.
His face was beaten to a pulp.
7. prep. Used after an adjective to indicate its application.
similar to ..., relevant to ..., pertinent to ..., I was nice to him, he was cruel to her, I am used to walking.
8. prep. (obsolete,) As a.
With God to friend (with God as a friend); with The Devil to fiend (with the Devil as a foe); lambs slaughtered to lake (lambs slaughtered as a sacrifice); t
9. prep. (arithmetic) Used to indicate a ratio or comparison.
one to one = 1:1
ten to one = 10:1.
I have ten dollars to your four.
10. prep. (arithmetic) Used to indicate that the preceding term is to be raised to the power of the following value; indicates exponentiation.
Three squared or three to the second power is nine.
Three to the power of two is nine.
Three to the second is nine.
11. prep. Used to indicate the indirect object.
I gave the book to him.
12. prep. (time) Preceding.
ten to ten = 9:50; We're going to leave at ten to (the hour).
13. prep. Used to describe what something consists of or contains.
Anyone could do this job; there's nothing to it.
There's a lot of sense to what he says.
14. prep. (Canada, UK, Newfoundland, West Midlands) At.
Stay where you're to and I'll come find you, b'y.
15. adv. Toward a closed, touching or engaging position.
Please push the door to.
16. adv. (nautical) Into the wind.
17. adv. misspelling of too
work
1. n. (heading) Employment.
2. n. Labour, occupation, job.
My work involves a lot of travel.
3. n. The place where one is employed.
He hasn’t come home yet, he’s still at work.
4. n. One's employer
“I want to go to the R.E.M. reunion concert but I'm not sure if my work will let me off.”
5. n. (heading) Effort.
6. n. Effort expended on a particular task.
Holding a brick over your head is hard work. It takes a lot of work to write a dictionary.
7. n. Sustained human effort to overcome obstacles and achieve a result.
We know what we must do. Let's go to work.
8. n. Something on which effort is expended.
There's lots of work waiting for me at the office.
9. n. (physics) A measure of energy expended in moving an object; most commonly, force times distance. No work is done if the object does not move.
Work is done against friction to drag a bag along the ground.
10. n. (physics, more generally) A measure of energy that is usefully extracted from a process.
11. n. Sustained effort to achieve a goal or result, especially overcoming obstacles.
We don't have much time. Let's get to work piling up those sandbags.
12. n. Product; the result of effort.:
13. n. (often, in combination) The result of a particular manner of production.
There's a lot of guesswork involved.
14. n. (often, in combination) Something produced using the specified material or tool.
We've got some paperwork to do before we can get started. The piece was decorated with intricate filigree work.
15. n. A literary, artistic, or intellectual production.
It is a work of art.
the poetic works of Alexander Pope
16. n. A fortification.
William the Conqueror fortified many castles, throwing up new ramparts, bastions and all manner of works.
17. n. (slang) The staging of events to appear as real.
18. n. (mining) Ore before it is dressed.
19. n. The equipment needed to inject a drug (syringes, needles, swabs etc.)
Tell me you're using clean works at least.
20. v. (intransitive) To do a specific task by employing physical or mental powers.
He’s working in a bar.
21. v. Followed by in (or at, etc.) Said of one's workplace (building), or one's department, or one's trade (sphere of business).
I work in a national park
she works in the human resources department
he mostly works in logging, but sometimes works in carpentry
22. v. Followed by as. Said of one's job title
I work as a cleaner.
23. v. Followed by for. Said of a company or individual who employs.
she works for Microsoft
he works for the president
24. v. Followed by with. General use, said of either fellow employees or instruments or clients.
I work closely with my Canadian counterparts
you work with computers
she works with the homeless people from the suburbs
25. v. To effect by gradual degrees.
he worked his way through the crowd
the dye worked its way through
using some tweezers, she worked the bee sting out of her hand
26. v. To embroider with thread.
27. v. To set into action.
He worked the levers.
28. v. To cause to ferment.
29. v. (intransitive) To ferment.
30. v. To exhaust, by working.
The mine was worked until the last scrap of ore had been extracted.
31. v. To shape, form, or improve a material.
He used pliers to work the wire into shape.
32. v. To operate in a certain place, area, or speciality.
she works the night clubs
the salesman works the Midwest
this artist works mostly in acrylics
33. v. To operate in or through; as, to work the phones.
34. v. To provoke or excite; to influence.
The rock musician worked the crowd of young girls into a frenzy.
35. v. To use or manipulate to one’s advantage.
She knows how to work the system.
36. v. To cause to happen or to occur as a consequence.
I cannot work a miracle.
37. v. To cause to work.
He is working his servants hard.
38. v. (intransitive) To function correctly; to act as intended; to achieve the goal designed for.
he pointed at the car and asked, "Does it work"?; he looked at the bottle of pain pills, wondering if they would work; my plan didn’t work
39. v. (intransitive, figuratively) To influence.
They worked on her to join the group.
40. v. (intransitive) To effect by gradual degrees; as, to work into the earth.
41. v. (intransitive) To move in an agitated manner.
His fingers worked with tension.
A ship works in a heavy sea.
42. v. (intransitive) To behave in a certain way when handled
this dough does not work easily; the soft metal works well
43. v. (transitive, with two objects, poetic) To cause (someone) to feel (something); to do unto somebody (something, whether good or bad).
44. v. (obsolete, intransitive) To hurt; to ache.
a
1. art. One; any indefinite example of; used to denote a singular item of a group.
There was a man here looking for you yesterday.
2. art. Used in conjunction with the adjectives score, dozen, hundred, thousand, and million, as a function word.
I've seen it happen a hundred times.
3. art. One certain or particular; any single.Brown, Lesley, (2003)
We've received an interesting letter from a Mrs. Miggins of London.
4. art. The same; one.
We are of a mind on matters of morals.
5. art. Any, every; used before a noun which has become modified to limit its scope; also used with a negative to indicate not a single one.Lindberg, Christine A. (2007)
A man who dies intestate leaves his children troubles and difficulties.
He fell all that way, and hasn't a bump on his head?
6. art. Used before plural nouns modified by few, good many, couple, great many, etc.
7. art. Someone or something like; similar to; Used before a proper noun to create an example out of it.
The center of the village was becoming a Times Square.
8. prep. (archaic) To do with position or direction; In, on, at, by, towards, onto.
Stand a tiptoe.
9. prep. To do with separation; In, into.
Torn a pieces.
10. prep. To do with time; Each, per, in, on, by.
I brush my teeth twice a day.
11. prep. (obsolete) To do with method; In, with.
12. prep. (obsolete) To do with role or capacity; In.
A God’s name.
13. prep. To do with status; In.
King James Bible (II Chronicles 2:18)
To set the people a worke.
14. prep. (archaic) To do with process, with a passive verb; In the course of, experiencing.
1964, Bob Dylan, The Times They Are a-Changin’
The times, they are a-changin'.
15. prep. (archaic) To do with an action, an active verb; Engaged in.
1611, King James Bible, Hebrews 11-21
Jacob, when he was a dying
16. prep. (archaic) To do with an action/movement; To, into.
17. v. (archaic, or slang) Have.
I'd a come, if you'd a asked.
18. pron. (obsolete, outside, England, and Scotland dialects) He.
19. interj. A meaningless syllable; ah.
20. prep. (archaic, slang) Of.
The name of John a Gaunt.
21. adv. (chiefly Scotland) All.
22. adj. (chiefly Scotland) All.
timber
1. n. Trees in a forest regarded as a source of wood.
2. n. (outside, North America) Wood that has been pre-cut and is ready for use in construction.
3. n. A heavy wooden beam, generally a whole log that has been squared off and used to provide heavy support for something such as a roof.
the timbers of a ship
4. n. Material for any structure.
5. n. (firearms, informal) The wooden stock of a rifle or shotgun.
6. n. (archaic) A certain quantity of fur skins (as of martens, ermines, sables, etc.) packed between boards; in some cases forty skins, in others one hundred and twenty. Also timmer, timbre.
7. interj. Used by loggers to warn others that a tree being felled is falling.
8. v. To fit with timbers.
timbering a roof
9. v. (transitive, obsolete) To construct, frame, build.
10. v. (falconry, intransitive) To light or land on a tree.
11. v. (obsolete) To make a nest.
12. v. To surmount as a timber does.
13. n. misspelling of timbre
or
1. conj. Connects at least two alternative words, phrases, clauses, sentences, etc. each of which could make a passage true. In English, this is the "inclusive or." The "exclusive or" is formed by "either(...)
In Ohio, anyone under the age of 18 who wants a tattoo or body piercing needs the consent of a parent or guardian.
He might get cancer, or be hit by a bus, or God knows what.
2. conj. (logic) An operator denoting the disjunction of two propositions or truth values. There are two forms, the inclusive or and the exclusive or.
3. conj. Counts the elements before and after as two possibilities.
4. conj. Otherwise (a consequence of the condition that the previous is false).
It's raining! Come inside or you'll catch a cold!
5. conj. Connects two equivalent names.
The country Myanmar, or Burma
6. n. (logic, electronics) alternative form of OR
7. n. (tincture) The gold or yellow tincture on a coat of arms.
8. adj. (tincture) Of gold or yellow tincture on a coat of arms.
9. adv. (obsolete) Early (on).
10. adv. (obsolete) Earlier, previously.
11. prep. (now archaic, or dialect) Before; ere.
rib
1. n. Any of a series of long curved bones occurring in 12 pairs in humans and other animals and extending from the spine to or toward the sternum
2. n. A part or piece, similar to a rib, and serving to shape or support something
3. n. A cut of meat enclosing one or more rib bones
4. n. (nautical) Any of several curved members attached to a ship's keel and extending upward and outward to form the framework of the hull
5. n. Any of several transverse pieces that provide an aircraft wing with shape and strength
6. n. (architecture) A long, narrow, usually arched member projecting from the surface of a structure, especially such a member separating the webs of a vault
7. n. (knitting) A raised ridge in knitted material or in cloth
8. n. (botany) The main, or any of the prominent veins of a leaf
9. n. A teasing joke
10. n. (Ireland, colloquial) A single strand of hair.
11. n. A stalk of celery.
12. n. (archaic, literary, humorous) A wife or woman.
13. v. To shape, support, or provide something with a rib or ribs.
14. v. To tease or make fun of someone in a good-natured way.
He always gets ribbed for his outrageous shirts.
15. v. To enclose, as if with ribs, and protect; to shut in.
16. v. To leave strips of undisturbed ground between the furrows in ploughing (land).
to
1. part. A particle used for marking the following verb as an infinitive.
I want to leave.
He asked me what to do.
I don’t know how to say it.
I have places to go and people to see.
2. part. As above, with the verb implied.
"Did you visit the museum?" "I wanted to, but it was closed.".
If he hasn't read it yet, he ought to.
3. part. A particle used to create phrasal verbs.
I have to do laundry today.
4. prep. Indicating destination: In the direction of, and arriving at.
We are walking to the shop.
5. prep. Used to indicate purpose.
He devoted himself to education.
They drank to his health.
6. prep. Used to indicate result of action.
His face was beaten to a pulp.
7. prep. Used after an adjective to indicate its application.
similar to ..., relevant to ..., pertinent to ..., I was nice to him, he was cruel to her, I am used to walking.
8. prep. (obsolete,) As a.
With God to friend (with God as a friend); with The Devil to fiend (with the Devil as a foe); lambs slaughtered to lake (lambs slaughtered as a sacrifice); t
9. prep. (arithmetic) Used to indicate a ratio or comparison.
one to one = 1:1
ten to one = 10:1.
I have ten dollars to your four.
10. prep. (arithmetic) Used to indicate that the preceding term is to be raised to the power of the following value; indicates exponentiation.
Three squared or three to the second power is nine.
Three to the power of two is nine.
Three to the second is nine.
11. prep. Used to indicate the indirect object.
I gave the book to him.
12. prep. (time) Preceding.
ten to ten = 9:50; We're going to leave at ten to (the hour).
13. prep. Used to describe what something consists of or contains.
Anyone could do this job; there's nothing to it.
There's a lot of sense to what he says.
14. prep. (Canada, UK, Newfoundland, West Midlands) At.
Stay where you're to and I'll come find you, b'y.
15. adv. Toward a closed, touching or engaging position.
Please push the door to.
16. adv. (nautical) Into the wind.
17. adv. misspelling of too
a
1. art. One; any indefinite example of; used to denote a singular item of a group.
There was a man here looking for you yesterday.
2. art. Used in conjunction with the adjectives score, dozen, hundred, thousand, and million, as a function word.
I've seen it happen a hundred times.
3. art. One certain or particular; any single.Brown, Lesley, (2003)
We've received an interesting letter from a Mrs. Miggins of London.
4. art. The same; one.
We are of a mind on matters of morals.
5. art. Any, every; used before a noun which has become modified to limit its scope; also used with a negative to indicate not a single one.Lindberg, Christine A. (2007)
A man who dies intestate leaves his children troubles and difficulties.
He fell all that way, and hasn't a bump on his head?
6. art. Used before plural nouns modified by few, good many, couple, great many, etc.
7. art. Someone or something like; similar to; Used before a proper noun to create an example out of it.
The center of the village was becoming a Times Square.
8. prep. (archaic) To do with position or direction; In, on, at, by, towards, onto.
Stand a tiptoe.
9. prep. To do with separation; In, into.
Torn a pieces.
10. prep. To do with time; Each, per, in, on, by.
I brush my teeth twice a day.
11. prep. (obsolete) To do with method; In, with.
12. prep. (obsolete) To do with role or capacity; In.
A God’s name.
13. prep. To do with status; In.
King James Bible (II Chronicles 2:18)
To set the people a worke.
14. prep. (archaic) To do with process, with a passive verb; In the course of, experiencing.
1964, Bob Dylan, The Times They Are a-Changin’
The times, they are a-changin'.
15. prep. (archaic) To do with an action, an active verb; Engaged in.
1611, King James Bible, Hebrews 11-21
Jacob, when he was a dying
16. prep. (archaic) To do with an action/movement; To, into.
17. v. (archaic, or slang) Have.
I'd a come, if you'd a asked.
18. pron. (obsolete, outside, England, and Scotland dialects) He.
19. interj. A meaningless syllable; ah.
20. prep. (archaic, slang) Of.
The name of John a Gaunt.
21. adv. (chiefly Scotland) All.
22. adj. (chiefly Scotland) All.
certain
1. adj. Sure, positive, not doubting.
I was certain of my decision.
2. adj. (obsolete) Determined; resolved.
3. adj. Not to be doubted or denied; established as a fact.
4. adj. Actually existing; sure to happen; inevitable.
Bankruptcy is the certain outcome of your constant gambling and lending.
5. adj. Unfailing; infallible.
6. adj. Fixed or stated; regular; determinate.
7. adj. Not specifically named; indeterminate; indefinite; one or some; sometimes used independently as a noun, and meaning certain persons; see also "one".
8. det. Having been determined but not specified. The quality of some particular subject or object which is known by the speaker to have been specifically singled out among similar entities of its class.
Certain people are good at running.
9. pron. (with of) Unnamed or undescribed members (of).
There where serious objections to certain of the proposals.
10. n. (with "the") Something certain.
thickness
1. n. The property of being thick (in dimension).
2. n. A measure of how thick (in dimension) something is.
The thickness of the Earth's crust varies from two to 70 kilometres.
3. n. A layer.
We upholstered the seat with three thicknesses of cloth to make it more comfortable to sit on.
4. n. The quality of being thick (in consistency).
Whip the cream until it reaches a good thickness.
5. n. (informal) The property of being thick (slow to understand).
by
1. prep. Near or next to.
The mailbox is by the bus stop.
2. prep. At some time before (the given time), or before the end of a given time interval.
Be back by ten o'clock! We will send it by the first week of July.
3. prep. Indicates the actor in a clause with its verb in the passive voice: Through the action or presence of.
The matter was decided by the chairman. The boat was swamped by the water. He was protected by his body armour.
4. prep. Indicates the creator of a work: Existing through the authorship etc. of.
There are many well-known plays by William Shakespeare
5. prep. Indicates the cause of a condition or event: Through the action of, caused by, responsibility for; by dint of.
6. prep. Indicates a means: Involving/using the means of.
I avoided the guards by moving only when they weren't looking.
7. prep. Indicates a source of light used as illumination.
The electricity was cut off, so we had to read by candlelight.
8. prep. Indicates an authority, rule, or permission followed.
I sorted the items by category. By the power vested in me, I now pronounce you man and wife.
9. prep. Indicates the amount of some progression: With a change of.
Our stock is up by ten percent.
10. prep. In the formulae X by X and by Xs, indicates a steady progression, one X after another.
We went through the book page by page. We crawled forward by inches.
11. prep. Indicates a referenced source: According to.
He cheated by his own admission.
12. prep. Indicates an oath: With the authority of.
By Jove! I think she's got it! By all that is holy, I'll put an end to this.
13. prep. Used to separate dimensions when describing the size of something.
It is easy to invert a 2-by-2 matrix. The room was about 4 foot by 6 foot. The bricks used to build the wall measured 10 by 20 by 30 cm.
14. prep. (horse breeding) Designates a horse's male parent (sire); cf. out of.
She's a lovely little filly, by Big Lad, out of Damsel in Distress.
15. adv. Along a path which runs by the speaker.
I watched as it passed by.
16. adv. In the vicinity, near.
There was a shepherd close by.
The shop is hard by the High Street.
17. adv. To or at a place, as a residence or place of business.
I'll stop by on my way home from work.
We're right near the lifeguard station. Come by before you leave.
18. adv. Aside, away.
The women spent much time after harvest putting jams by for winter and spring.
19. adj. Out of the way, subsidiary.
20. n. (card games) A pass
21. interj. alternative spelling of bye
trimming
1. n. The act of someone who trims.
I gave a good trimming to my elderly neighbour's hedges.
2. n. Material that is removed by someone trimming something, as a piece of steak.
He gave the trimmings to the dog under the kitchen table.
3. n. An accompaniment to a meal.
Christmas dinner with all the trimmings
4. n. (colloquial, dated) A reprimand or chastisting.
to give a boy a trimming
5. v. present participle of trim
I am helping my elderly neighbour by trimming his hedge.
trim
1. v. To reduce slightly; to cut; especially, to remove excess. The adposition of can be used in the present perfect tense to designate the removed part.
He trimmed his beard before the interview.
The hedge needs to be trimmed.
Place the screen material in the frame, secure it in place, and trim the edges.
The company trimmed jobs for the second time this year.
A ranch steak is usually trimmed of all excess fat. (present perfect example)
2. v. To decorate or adorn; especially of a Christmas tree.
They traditionally trim the tree on Christmas Eve.
3. v. (transitive, aviation, of an aircraft) To adjust pitch using trim tabs.
4. v. (transitive, nautical, of a vessel) To modify the angle relative to the water by shifting cargo or ballast; to adjust for sailing; to assume, or cause to assume a certain position, or trim, in the wat
5. v. (transitive, nautical, of a vessel's sails) To modify the angle (of the sails) relative to the wind, especially to set them at the most advantageous angle.
6. v. (dated) To balance; to fluctuate between parties, so as to appear to favour each.
7. v. To make trim; to put in due order for any purpose; to make right, neat, or pleasing; to adjust.
8. v. (transitive, carpentry, of timber) To dress; to make smooth.
9. v. (transitive, dated) To rebuke; to reprove; also, to beat.
10. n. Decoration; especially, decoration placed along edges or borders.
Paint the house white with blue trim.
11. n. A haircut, especially a moderate one to touch up an existing style.
I went to the hairdresser for a trim but came back nearly bald.
12. n. Dress; gear; ornaments.
13. n. The manner in which something is equipped or adorned; order; disposition.
The car comes in three different trims.
to be in good trim
14. n. (slang) Sexual intercourse.
15. n. (nautical) The fore-and-aft angle of the vessel to the water, with reference to the cargo and ballast; the manner in which a vessel floats on the water, whether on an even keel or down by the head or
16. n. (nautical) The arrangement of the sails with reference to the wind.
17. adj. Physically fit.
He goes jogging every day to keep in trim.
18. adj. Slender, lean.
a trim figure
19. adj. Neat or smart in appearance.
a trim lawn
20. adv. (nautical) In good order, properly managed or maintained.
21. adv. (nautical) With sails well trimmed.
the
1. art. Definite grammatical article that implies necessarily that an entity it articulates is presupposed; something already mentioned, or completely specified later in that same sentence, or assumed already
I’m reading the book. (Compare I’m reading a book.)
The street in front of your house. (Compare A street in Paris.)
The men and women watched the man give the birdseed to the bird.
2. art. Used before a noun modified by a restrictive relative clause, indicating that the noun refers to a single referent defined by the relative clause.
The street that runs through my hometown.
3. art. Used before an object considered to be unique, or of which there is only one at a time.
No one knows how many galaxies there are in the universe.
God save the Queen!
4. art. Used before a superlative or an ordinal number modifying a noun, to indicate that the noun refers to a single item.
That was the best apple pie ever.
5. art. Added to a superlative or an ordinal number to make it into a substantive.
That apple pie was the best.
6. art. Introducing a singular term to be taken generically: preceding a name of something standing for a whole class.
7. art. Used before an adjective, indicating all things (especially persons) described by that adjective.
Feed the hungry, clothe the naked, comfort the afflicted, and afflict the comfortable.
8. art. Used to indicate a certain example of (a noun) which is usually of most concern or most common or familiar.
No one in the whole country had seen it before.
I don't think I'll get to it until the morning.
9. art. Used before a body part (especially of someone previously mentioned), as an alternative to a possessive pronoun.
A stone hit him on the head. (= “A stone hit him on his head.”)
10. art. When stressed, indicates that it describes an object which is considered to be best or exclusively worthy of attention.
That is the hospital to go to for heart surgery.
11. adv. 1=With a comparative ormore and a verb phrase, establishes a parallel with one or more other such comparatives.
The hotter the better.
The more I think about it, the weaker it looks.
The more money donated, the more books purchased, and the more happy children.
It looks weaker and weaker, the more I think about it.
12. adv. 1=With a comparative, and often withfor it, indicates a result more like said comparative. This can be negated withnone.
It was a difficult time, but I’m the wiser for it.
It was a difficult time, and I’m none the wiser for it.
I'm much the wiser for having had a difficult time like that.
sides
1. n. plural of side.
2. v. third-person singular present indicative of side
side
1. n. A bounding straight edge of a two-dimensional shape.
A square has four sides.
2. n. A flat surface of a three-dimensional object; a face.
A cube has six sides.
3. n. One half (left or right, top or bottom, front or back, etc.) of something or someone.
Which side of the tray shall I put it on? The patient was bleeding on the right side.
4. n. A region in a specified position with respect to something.
Meet me on the north side of the monument.
5. n. 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.
I generally sleep on my side.
6. n. One surface of a sheet of paper (used instead of "page", which can mean one or both surfaces.)
John wrote 15 sides for his essay!
7. n. One possible aspect of a concept, person or thing.
Look on the bright side.
8. n. One set of competitors in a game.
Which side has kick-off?
9. n. (Australia) A sports team.
10. n. A group having a particular allegiance in a conflict or competition.
In the second world war, the Italians were on the side of the Germans.
11. n. (music) A recorded piece of music; a record, especially in jazz.
12. n. (sports) Sidespin; english
He had to put a bit of side on to hit the pink ball.
13. n. (UK, Australia, Ireland, dated) A television channel, usually as opposed to the one currently being watched (from when there were only two channels).
I just want to see what's on the other side — James said there was a good film on tonight.
14. n. (US, colloquial) A dish that accompanies the main course; a side dish.
Do you want a side of cole-slaw with that?
15. n. A line of descent traced through one parent as distinguished from that traced through another.
his mother's side of the family
16. n. (baseball) The batters faced in an inning by a particular pitcher
17. n. (slang) An unjustified air of self-importance.
18. v. (intransitive) To ally oneself, be in an alliance, usually with "with" or rarely "in with".
Which will you side with, good or evil?
19. v. To lean on one side.
20. v. (transitive, obsolete) To be or stand at the side of; to be on the side toward.
21. v. (transitive, obsolete) To suit; to pair; to match.
22. v. (transitive, shipbuilding) To work (a timber or rib) to a certain thickness by trimming the sides.
23. v. To furnish with a siding.
to side a house
24. v. (transitive, cooking) To provide with, as a side or accompaniment.
25. adj. Being on the left or right, or toward the left or right; lateral.
26. adj. Indirect; oblique; incidental.
a side issue; a side view or remark
27. adj. (UK archaic, dialectal, Northern England, Scotland) Wide; large; long, pendulous, hanging low, trailing; far-reaching.
28. adj. (Scotland) Far; distant.
29. adv. (UK dialectal) Widely; wide; far.

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