"sidelong" meaning in All languages combined

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          "roman": "straničen",
          "sense": "sideways",
          "word": "страничен"
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          "text": "The passenger train was signalled from one of the west end bay platforms along the Down South Line; as it passed through a crossover to the Up South Line the freight train, which had been travelling slowly to the Up South Line, over-ran the signal protecting the crossover and came into sidelong collision with it.",
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        "Along the side of something."
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      "_dis1": "0 0 0 0",
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      "word": "inside-out"
    }
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      "code": "bg",
      "lang": "Bulgarian",
      "roman": "straničen",
      "sense": "sideways",
      "word": "страничен"
    },
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      "lang": "Italian",
      "sense": "sideways",
      "word": "obliquo"
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      "code": "la",
      "lang": "Latin",
      "sense": "sideways",
      "word": "oblīquus"
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  "word": "sidelong"
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