"sideways-on" meaning in English

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    {
      "form": "more sideways-on",
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    },
    {
      "form": "most sideways-on",
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        "superlative"
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  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "adj",
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          "ref": "1985, SC Nyburg, CH Faerman, “A revision of van der Waals atomic radii for molecular crystals: N, O, F, S, Cl, Se, Br and I bonded to carbon”, in Acta Crystallographica Section B STRUCTURAL SCIENCE, CRYSTAL ENGINEERING AND MATERIALS:",
          "text": "In this paper we show that these shapes are often not spherical, being shorter in their 'head-on' contacts than in their 'sideways-on' contacts.",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2006, James W. Lennox, Janet Rayfield, Bill Steffen, Soccer Skills and Drills, page 28:",
          "text": "The attacking player should also be in a sideways-on stance to receive the ball. This stance refers to the position of the attacker's body—one foot is toward the defender and the other foot toward the oncoming ball.",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2010, Donald Kagan, Gregory F. Viggiano, Problems in the History of Ancient Greece: Sources and Interpretation:",
          "text": "What archaic art thus portrays with varying degrees of stylization would seem to be a sideways-on stance, with the upper body at almost right angles to the shield and to the enemy.",
          "type": "quote"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "Of a stance in which something is positioned at right angles to its expected orientation."
      ],
      "id": "en-sideways-on-en-adj-YNs~HzEN"
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  "word": "sideways-on"
}

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    {
      "form": "more sideways-on",
      "tags": [
        "comparative"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "most sideways-on",
      "tags": [
        "superlative"
      ]
    }
  ],
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  "pos": "adj",
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          "ref": "1985, SC Nyburg, CH Faerman, “A revision of van der Waals atomic radii for molecular crystals: N, O, F, S, Cl, Se, Br and I bonded to carbon”, in Acta Crystallographica Section B STRUCTURAL SCIENCE, CRYSTAL ENGINEERING AND MATERIALS:",
          "text": "In this paper we show that these shapes are often not spherical, being shorter in their 'head-on' contacts than in their 'sideways-on' contacts.",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2006, James W. Lennox, Janet Rayfield, Bill Steffen, Soccer Skills and Drills, page 28:",
          "text": "The attacking player should also be in a sideways-on stance to receive the ball. This stance refers to the position of the attacker's body—one foot is toward the defender and the other foot toward the oncoming ball.",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2010, Donald Kagan, Gregory F. Viggiano, Problems in the History of Ancient Greece: Sources and Interpretation:",
          "text": "What archaic art thus portrays with varying degrees of stylization would seem to be a sideways-on stance, with the upper body at almost right angles to the shield and to the enemy.",
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        }
      ],
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        "Of a stance in which something is positioned at right angles to its expected orientation."
      ]
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  "word": "sideways-on"
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