side

/ˈsaɪ̯d/ noun A1

A bounding straight edge of a two-dimensional shape. (countable, uncountable) · A square has four sides.
A flat surface of a three-dimensional object; a face. (countable, uncountable) · A cube has six sides.
One half (left or right, top or bottom, front or back, etc.) of something or someone. (countable, uncountable) · Which side of the tray shall I put it on? The patient was bleeding on the right side.
A region in a specified position with respect to something. (countable, uncountable) · Meet me on the north side of the monument.
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. (countable, uncountable) · Meronyms: flank, loin; latus, lumbus· I generally sleep on my side.
One possible aspect of a concept, person, or thing. (countable, uncountable) · Look on the bright side.· She has a mean side (to her).
One set of competitors in a game. (countable, uncountable) · Which side has kick-off?
A group having a particular allegiance in a conflict or competition. (countable, uncountable) · there are two sides to every question· Although there are two sides to every story, the fallacy that they are inevitably equally ethical is called bothsidesism.

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When Dorothy stood in the doorway and looked around, she could see nothing but the great gray prairie on every side.

In the middle of a cyclone the air is generally still, but the great pressure of the wind on every side of the house raised it up higher and higher, until it was at the very top of the cyclone; and there it remained and was carried miles and miles away as easily as you could carry a feather.

The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, p. 3 · B2

He seized a rope which Dantès flung to him, and with an activity that would have done credit to a sailor, climbed up the side of the ship, while the young man, going to his task, left the conversation to Danglars, who now came towards the owner.

The Count of Monte Cristo, p. 4 · C1

However, those experienced in navigation saw plainly that if any accident had occurred, it was not to the vessel herself, for she bore down with all the evidence of being skilfully handled, the anchor a-cockbill, the jib-boom guys already eased off, and standing by the side of the pilot, who was steering the Pharaon towards the narrow entrance of the inner port, was a young man, who, with activity and vigilant eye, watched every motion of the ship, and repeated each direction of the pilot.

The Count of Monte Cristo, p. 1 · C1

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