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"code": "fi",
"lang": "Finnish",
"sense": "moving or directed towards one side",
"word": "sivuttainen"
},
{
"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"sense": "moving or directed towards one side",
"word": "seitlich"
},
{
"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"sense": "moving or directed towards one side",
"word": "Seiten-"
},
{
"code": "grc",
"lang": "Ancient Greek",
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"sense": "moving or directed towards one side",
"word": "λέχριος"
},
{
"code": "ga",
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"sense": "moving or directed towards one side",
"word": "cliathánach"
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{
"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"sense": "positioned sideways",
"word": "seitlich"
},
{
"code": "ga",
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"sense": "positioned sideways",
"word": "cliathánach"
},
{
"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"sense": "neither moving up nor moving down",
"word": "auf der Stelle tretend"
}
],
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}
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"source": "Thesaurus:sideways",
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},
{
"source": "Thesaurus:sideways",
"word": "directly"
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{
"source": "Thesaurus:sideways",
"word": "forwards"
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{
"source": "Thesaurus:sideways",
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}
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"word": "fuck me sideways"
},
{
"word": "knock sideways"
},
{
"word": "move sideways"
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{
"word": "sideways-on"
},
{
"word": "spelled sideways"
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"source": "Thesaurus:sideways",
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"text": "He builds houses sideways, with the front door on the side.",
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"With a side to the front."
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"text": "A bishop moves only diagonally; a rook, only sideways, forward, and back.",
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{
"text": "He looked sideways at the new arrival, wondering who she was.",
"type": "example"
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"Towards one side."
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{
"glosses": [
"Askance; sidelong."
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"text": "The economy has been moving sideways for several months now.",
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"glosses": [
"Neither upward nor downward."
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]
],
"raw_glosses": [
"(informal) Neither upward nor downward."
],
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"informal"
]
},
{
"categories": [
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"English terms with usage examples"
],
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"text": "We realized the project could go sideways very quickly if we didn't get the sales and marketing people on our side.",
"type": "example"
},
{
"ref": "2011, D. P. Lyle, chapter 78, in Hot Lights, Cold Steel, page 340",
"text": "As we walked deeper into the darkness, we both knew this could go sideways in a heartbeat. We were sitting ducks. Birds on a wire. Canaries in a coalmine.",
"type": "quotation"
},
{
"ref": "2023 May 20, Tabby Kinder, George Hammond, quoting Ivan Matkovic, “So long, San Francisco”, in FT Weekend, Life & Arts, page 1",
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"type": "quotation"
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}
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"word": "broadside"
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{
"source": "Thesaurus:sideways",
"word": "laterally"
},
{
"source": "Thesaurus:sideways",
"word": "sideling"
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},
{
"source": "Thesaurus:sideways",
"word": "sidely"
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{
"source": "Thesaurus:sideways",
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},
{
"source": "Thesaurus:sideways",
"word": "sideways"
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{
"source": "Thesaurus:sideways",
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"source": "Thesaurus:sideways",
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{
"code": "nl",
"lang": "Dutch",
"sense": "with a side to the front",
"word": "zijwaarts"
},
{
"code": "fi",
"lang": "Finnish",
"sense": "with a side to the front",
"word": "sivuttain"
},
{
"code": "fr",
"lang": "French",
"sense": "with a side to the front",
"word": "de côté"
},
{
"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"sense": "with a side to the front",
"word": "seitlich"
},
{
"code": "grc",
"lang": "Ancient Greek",
"roman": "likriphís",
"sense": "with a side to the front",
"word": "λικριφίς"
},
{
"code": "la",
"lang": "Latin",
"sense": "with a side to the front",
"word": "oblīquē"
},
{
"code": "fi",
"lang": "Finnish",
"sense": "towards one side",
"word": "sivulle"
},
{
"code": "fi",
"lang": "Finnish",
"sense": "towards one side",
"word": "sivuttain"
},
{
"code": "fr",
"lang": "French",
"sense": "towards one side",
"word": "de côté"
},
{
"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"sense": "towards one side",
"word": "seitwärts"
},
{
"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"sense": "towards one side",
"word": "zu Seite"
},
{
"code": "nb",
"lang": "Norwegian Bokmål",
"sense": "towards one side",
"word": "sidelengs"
},
{
"code": "nb",
"lang": "Norwegian Bokmål",
"sense": "towards one side",
"word": "sideveis"
},
{
"code": "nn",
"lang": "Norwegian Nynorsk",
"sense": "towards one side",
"word": "sidelengs"
},
{
"code": "pdt",
"lang": "Plautdietsch",
"sense": "towards one side",
"word": "dwäa"
},
{
"code": "fi",
"lang": "Finnish",
"sense": "askance",
"word": "viistossa"
},
{
"code": "fi",
"lang": "Finnish",
"sense": "askance",
"word": "viistoon"
},
{
"code": "fi",
"lang": "Finnish",
"sense": "askance",
"word": "vinossa"
},
{
"code": "fi",
"lang": "Finnish",
"sense": "askance",
"word": "vinosti"
},
{
"code": "fi",
"lang": "Finnish",
"sense": "askance",
"word": "vinottain"
},
{
"code": "fr",
"lang": "French",
"sense": "askance",
"word": "de travers"
},
{
"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"sense": "askance",
"word": "schräg"
},
{
"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"sense": "askance",
"word": "schief"
},
{
"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"sense": "askance",
"word": "seitwärts"
},
{
"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"sense": "neither upward nor downward",
"word": "auf der Stelle"
}
],
"word": "sideways"
}
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