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a·side

(ə-sīd′)

adv.

1. To or toward the side: step aside.

2. Out of one's thoughts or mind: put my doubts aside.

3. Apart: a day set aside for relaxing.

4. In reserve; away: put a little money aside.

prep.

Being excepted or excluded from consideration: All joking aside, can you swim two miles?

1. A piece of dialogue intended for the audience and supposedly not heard by the other actors on stage.

2. A remark made in an undertone so as to be inaudible to others nearby.

3. A parenthetical departure; a digression.

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aside

(əˈsaɪd)

adv

1. on or to one side: they stood aside to let him pass.

2. out of hearing; in or into seclusion: he took her aside to tell her of his plan.

3. away from oneself: he threw the book aside.

4. out of mind or consideration: he put aside all fears.

5. in or into reserve: to put aside money for old age.

6. aside from (preposition) chiefly

a. besides: he has money aside from his possessions.

b. except for: he has nothing aside from the clothes he stands in. Compare apart⁷

7. (Theatre) something spoken by an actor, intended to be heard by the audience, but not by the others on stage

8. any confidential statement spoken in undertones

9. a digression

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a•side

(əˈsaɪd)

adv.

1. on or to one side; to or at a short distance away.

2. away from one's thoughts or consideration: to put one's cares aside.

3. in reserve; in a separate place, as for safekeeping: to put some money aside.

4. away from a present group or area, esp. for privacy: He took her aside to discuss the plan.

5. put apart; notwithstanding: all kidding aside.

6. something spoken by an actor to or for the audience and supposedly not heard by others on stage.

7. words spoken so as not to be heard by one or more persons present.

8. a temporary departure from a main theme or topic; brief digression.

Idioms:

aside from,

a. apart from; besides; excluding.

b. except for.

[1350–1400]

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Noun	1.	aside - a line spoken by an actor to the audience but not intended for others on the stage actor's line, words, speech - words making up the dialogue of a play; "the actor forgot his speech"
	2.	aside - a message that departs from the main subject digression, divagation, excursus, parenthesis subject matter, content, message, substance - what a communication that is about something is about
Adv.	1.	aside - on or to one side; "step aside"; "stood aside to let him pass"; "threw the book aside"; "put her sewing aside when he entered"
	2.	aside - out of the way (especially away from one's thoughts); "brush the objections aside"; "pushed all doubts away" away
	3.	aside - not taken into account or excluded from consideration; "these problems apart, the country is doing well"; "all joking aside, I think you're crazy" apart
	4.	aside - in a different direction; "turn aside"; "turn away one's face"; "glanced away" away
	5.	aside - placed or kept separate and distinct as for a purpose; "had a feeling of being set apart"; "quality sets it apart"; "a day set aside for relaxing" apart
	6.	aside - in reserve; not for immediate use; "started setting aside money to buy a car"; "put something by for her old age"; "has a nest egg tucked away for a rainy day" by, away

aside

adverb

1. to one side, away, alone, separately, apart, alongside, beside, out of the way, on one side, to the side, in isolation, in reserve, out of mind She closed the book and laid it aside.

2. apart, notwithstanding Emotional arguments aside, here are the facts.

noun

1. interpolation, remark, parenthesis, digression, interposition, confidential remark She mutters an aside to the camera.

aside from apart from, but, save, other than, excluding, besides, except for, not counting Aside from these few niggles, all is clear.

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aside

noun

An instance of digressing:

deviation, digression, divagation, divergence, divergency, excursion, excursus, irrelevancy, parenthesis, tangent.

Translations

جانِبَاًجانِباً

stranoupoznámka stranou

sidebemærkningtil side

beiseite

δίπλα

a un lado aparte

sivuun

de côté à-côté aparté

sa strane

félreszólás

til hliîar

da parte a parte

わきへ

한쪽으로

atidėtiį šalįpašnibždėjimas

malāsānissānisremarka

opzij

side sidebemerkning til side

na bok

à parte de lado

в сторону

poznámka vyslovená bokom

pročvstran

åt sidan

ข้างๆ

aparkenarkenarayan sözyana

qua một bên

在一边在旁边旁白

aside

[əˈsaɪd]

When aside is an element in a phrasal verb, eg brush aside, cast aside, put aside, stand aside, look up the verb.

A. ADV

1. (= to one side) → a un lado
to set or put sth aside → apartar algo
to cast aside → desechar, echar a un lado
to step aside → hacerse a un lado
joking aside → bromas aparte

2. aside from (= as well as) → aparte de, además de; (= except for) → aparte de

B. N (Theat) → aparte m
to say sth in an aside → decir algo aparte

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aside

[əˈsaɪd]

adv

(to one side)
see also set aside, put aside, brush aside

aside from (mainly US) (= apart from) → à part

n → aparté m
in an aside → en aparté

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aside

adv

(with verbal element) → zur Seite, beiseite; to set something aside for somebody → für jdn etw beiseitelegen; to turn aside → sich zur Seite drehen, sich abwenden (esp fig)

(Theat etc) → beiseite

(esp US) aside from → außer; aside from demanding an extra 10% … → außer einer Zusatzforderung von 10% …; aside from being chairman of this committee he is … → außer Vorsitzender dieses Ausschusses ist er auch …; this criticism, aside from being wrong, is … → diese Kritik ist nicht nur falsch, sondern …

n (Theat) → Aparte nt (rare); to say something in an aside → etw beiseitesprechen; there are too many asides to the audience → es wird zu viel zum Publikum gesprochen

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aside

[əˈsaɪd]

1. adv → da parte
to take sb aside → prendere qn da parte

2. prep aside from (as well as) → oltre a, a parte; (except for) → a parte, salvo, eccetto

3. n (esp Theatre) → a parte m inv

aside

(əˈsaid) adverb

on or to one side. They stood aside to let her pass; I've put aside two tickets for you to collect.

noun

words spoken (especially by an actor) which other people (on the stage) are not supposed to hear. She whispered an aside to him.

put aside (often with for)

to keep (something) for a particular person or occasion. Would you put this book aside for me and I'll collect it later; We have put aside the dress you ordered.

aside

→ جانِباً stranou til side beiseite δίπλα a un lado sivuun de côté sa strane da parte わきへ 한쪽으로 opzij side na bok à parte, de lado в сторону åt sidan ข้างๆ kenar qua một bên 在旁边

aside

adv. aparte, a un lado;

vt.

to lay ___ → dejar de lado.

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When Newton enunciated the law of gravity he did not say that the sun or the earth had a property of attraction; he said that all bodies from the largest to the smallest have the property of attracting one another, that is, leaving aside the question of the cause of the movement of the bodies, he expressed the property common to all bodies from the infinitely large to the infinitely small.

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Live as quietly and as frugally as possible, and from today begin always to set aside something, lest misfortune again overtake you.

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Before the doctor had come in, she had glanced at it, and had thrown it aside in her impatience to read what Cecilia had written.

Emily laid it aside, deferring her answer until she had read Cecilia's letter.

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He watched his opportunity of taking Darnay aside into a window, and of speaking to him when no one overheard.

I had no other object than to turn a slight thing, which, to my surprise, seems to trouble you too much, aside. I declare to you, on the faith of a gentleman, that I have long dismissed it from my mind.

I have gone aside from my purpose; I was speaking about our being friends.

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Perceiving that a stray sunbeam glimmered down upon his face, the lady contrived to twist a branch aside, so as to intercept it.

Conscious that the silken girth--if silk it were--was relaxing its hold, she turned aside into the shelter of the maple-trees, and there found a young man asleep by the spring!

The girl was hardly out of sight when two men turned aside beneath the maple shade.

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He advised him and his warriors, therefore, to lay aside their weapons and war shirts, wash off the paint from their faces and bodies, and appear like clean and civil savages, to receive the strangers courteously.

They all gave a shrug and an Indian grunt of acquiescence, and went off sulkily to their village, to lay aside their weapons for the present.