Sideways

3 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Sideways \Side"ways`\, adv.
     Toward the side; sidewise.
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           A second refraction made sideways.       --Sir I.
                                                    Newton.


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           His beard, a good palm's length, at least, . . .
           Shot sideways, like a swallow's wings.   --Longfellow.
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From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  sideways
       adj : (of movement) at an angle [syn: {crabwise}]
       adv 1: with one side forward or to the front; "turned sideways to
              show the profile"; "crabs seeming to walk sidewise"
              [syn: {sideway}, {sidewise}]
       2: from the side; obliquely; "a picture lit sideways"; "scenes
          viewed sidewise" [syn: {sideway}, {sidewise}]
       3: toward one side; "the car slipped sideways into the ditch";
          "leaning sideways"; "a figure moving sidewise in the
          shadows" [syn: {sideway}, {sidewise}]
       4: to, toward or at one side; "darting eyes looking sidelong
          out of a wizened face" [syn: {sidelong}, {obliquely}]

From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:

  78 Moby Thesaurus words for "sideways":
     across, across the grain, aside, askance, askant, aslant, aslope,
     asquint, at an angle, athwart, athwartships, breadthwise,
     broad side foremost, broadside, broadside on, broadways, broadwise,
     circuitously, contrariwise, contrawise, crabwise, crisscross,
     cross, cross-grained, crossway, crossways, crosswise, depthwise,
     deviately, deviously, digressively, divagationally, divergently,
     edgeway, edgeways, edgewise, excursively, flanking, glancing,
     glancingly, indirectly, laterad, lateral, laterally, lee, leeward,
     next-beside, obliquely, on its side, on one side, on the beam,
     overthwart, right and left, side, sideling, sidelong, sideward,
     sidewards, sideway, sidewise, sidling, skirting, slantingly,
     slantways, slantwise, slaunchways, through, thwart, thwartly,
     thwartways, to one side, transverse, transversely, traverse,
     weather, widthways, widthwise, windward