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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
sideways
adverb
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
a sidelong/sideways glance (=a way of looking by moving your eyes to the side)
▪ Christina gave her husband a sidelong glance.
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ VERB
fall
▪ His plane fell sideways, helplessly, like a book toppling from a shelf.
▪ When he fell sideways, the needle went with his arm.
▪ June's body rocked longitudinally on its curved spine, then fell sideways.
▪ She matched left hands now and fell sideways to the bed laughing.
▪ As Lambert watched, one SE5a took a hit from a shell and fell sideways.
glance
▪ She glanced sideways at Daniel's profile.
▪ Morrill glanced sideways at the cooling chowder and let it go.
▪ Come on! she thought, glancing sideways at Nevil.
▪ So near that, had he glanced sideways, he would have been bound to see her standing with Thomas.
▪ She glanced sideways at Nevil who was sitting entranced.
▪ Three times as the president spoke, Diana flashed him the kind of flattering sideways glances she once gave Charles.
▪ He glanced sideways at Mrs Wright.
▪ Mr McCrindle said something and Tam seemed to glance sideways.
look
▪ He looked sideways at me, so I shook my head.
▪ Two others use special radar sets, one that looks sideways and another that looks forward.
▪ Athelstan looked sideways at Benedicta and his heart lurched.
▪ She looks sideways at Howard to see how he is taking this.
▪ Tug looked sideways, towards the valley on the right, and recognized where they were.
▪ She looked sideways at him; the ruined cheek was away from her, and this morning he was hardly limping.
▪ I look sideways at Nathan who is lying motionless in a bag covered by an inch of snow.
▪ Philip looked sideways at the girl sitting next to him.
move
▪ Any extra load on the tail will help to increase its resistance to moving sideways and so help prevent a serious swing.
▪ The Woman pushed at the door, behind Doyle's chair, and when he moved sideways she stepped in.
▪ Nate would never have taken him off the presentation if he wasn't being moved sideways or demoted.
▪ Most of its soft top simply came away but the whole car seemed to move sideways.
▪ There's no need to nail the shelves down, as they can't move sideways because of the spacers.
▪ But he would be moved sideways, rather than demoted.
▪ Similarly, a screen placed across the inside of a doorway will hinder their progress, for they can not move sideways.
▪ With fewer rungs on the ladder, people have to learn to move sideways.
slide
▪ A swing can only occur if the tail is sliding sideways over the ground.
▪ The eyes slid sideways, looked over his shoulder.
▪ I slide sideways from her as she sits up, grabbing at me to stop me moving away.
▪ The lorry slid sideways across the road.
slip
▪ She slipped sideways and felt a familiar coaming beneath her hand.
▪ I swerved, the car slipped sideways, the wheels screaming.
▪ Here the daggerboard is straining to stop the board slipping sideways.
▪ It also reduces the load on the tail-skid or wheel and makes it slip sideways more easily.
▪ Might time itself have slipped sideways, showing him a scene from the past?
turn
▪ Croft did what Croft always does and pushed the ball through slowly and deliberately, getting sideways turn but nothing too dangerous.
▪ At that time, he testified, he was turned sideways with his feet on the concrete.
▪ I tried to turn sideways in the bed, but I was stuck to the sheet.
▪ He may practise lifting the pelvis in order to turn sideways, which is an essential pattern for turning over in bed.
▪ Between the rows of desks there was not enough space for two people t o pass each other without first turning sideways.
▪ They walked along corridors so narrow that they had to turn sideways, and through corridors as wide as barns.
PHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
knock sb sideways
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
▪ He leaned sideways slightly to let Jane past.
▪ If we turn the chest sideways, I think we can get it through the door.
▪ She sat sideways across her boyfriend's lap.
▪ The car skidded sideways off the road.
▪ Tony swayed sideways but caught himself before he fell.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ Athelstan looked sideways at Benedicta and his heart lurched.
▪ Feeling her stomach churn with the painful memories, she leaned sideways and was violently sick.
▪ He turned his body sideways, tenderly, to protect his eyes.
▪ Mud began to thump in the wheel wells, and the car skidded sideways, went off the road, and stuck.
▪ Start with arms outstretched and curve sideways, bringing the arm up and over as far as possible.
▪ The tormented Onna, stark naked, pushed the blade in and pulled it sideways.
▪ This chapter begins by considering three basic directions for expressing power in Organizations-downward, upward, and sideways.
▪ We started for the truck with Janir carrying the doll sideways.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Sideways

Sideways \Side"ways`\, adv. Toward the side; sidewise.

A second refraction made sideways.
--Sir I. Newton.

His beard, a good palm's length, at least, . . . Shot sideways, like a swallow's wings.
--Longfellow.

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
sideways

1570s, from side (n.) + way (n.), with adverbial genitive. To look sideways "cast scornful glances" is recorded from 1844.

Wiktionary
sideways

a. 1 move or directed toward one side. 2 (context informal English) position #Adverb (gloss: with a side to the front). 3 (context informal English) Neither moving upward nor moving downward. 4 (context chiefly US colloquial English) Not as planned; towards a worse outcome. adv. 1 With a side to the front. 2 towards one side. 3 askance; sidelong. 4 (lb en informal) Neither upward nor downward. n. (plural of sideway English)

WordNet
sideways
  1. adj. (of movement) at an angle [syn: crabwise]

  2. adv. with one side forward or to the front; "turned sideways to show the profile"; "crabs seeming to walk sidewise" [syn: sideway, sidewise]

  3. from the side; obliquely; "a picture lit sideways"; "scenes viewed sidewise" [syn: sideway, sidewise]

  4. toward one side; "the car slipped sideways into the ditch"; "leaning sideways"; "a figure moving sidewise in the shadows" [syn: sideway, sidewise]

  5. to, toward or at one side; "darting eyes looking sidelong out of a wizened face" [syn: sidelong, obliquely]

Wikipedia
Sideways

Sideways is a 2004 American comedy-drama film written by Jim Taylor and Alexander Payne and directed by Payne. A film adaptation from Rex Pickett's novel of the same name, Sideways follows two men in their forties, Miles Raymond ( Paul Giamatti), a depressed teacher and unsuccessful writer and Jack Cole ( Thomas Haden Church), a past-his-prime actor, who take a week-long road trip to Santa Barbara County wine country to celebrate Jack's upcoming wedding. Despite his impending marriage, Jack has a romantic fling with a local wine pourer, Stephanie ( Sandra Oh), and tells her he is in love with her. Jack persuades Miles to date Stephanie's friend, a server named Maya ( Virginia Madsen), whom Miles knows. The double romance blooms until Miles lets slip that Jack is getting married at the end of the vacation, which causes both women to angrily break off their relationships with the men. Payne and Taylor won multiple awards for their screenplay. The principal actors and actresses received accolades for their performances. Sideways won the Academy Award for Best Adapted Screenplay, and was nominated for four other awards including Best Picture.

Sideways (Men Without Hats album)

Sideways is the fifth studio album by Canadian synthpop group Men Without Hats. Released in May 1991, it featured processed electric guitars instead of the group's normal use of synthesizers.

Despite the group's insistence that guitars were the wave of the future, the album failed to attract an American label and was released only in Canada although there are many imports that have made their way to American shelves.

The album is currently out of print.

Sideways (disambiguation)

Sideways is a 2004 film based on the novel.

Sideways may also refer to:

  • Sideways (novel), a 2004 novel by Rex Pickett
  • Sideways, in the List of Transformers: Armada characters
Sideways (novel)

Sideways is a 2004 novel by Rex Pickett. The novel is the first in the Sideways Trilogy.

Sideways (Dierks Bentley song)

"Sideways" is a song co-written and recorded by American country music artist Dierks Bentley. As the twelfth single of his career, it was released on March 2, 2009 as the second one from his fourth studio album, Feel That Fire. On the chart week of July 11, 2009, the song became his seventh Number One single on the Hot Country Songs chart.

The song is part of the track list for Now That's What I Call Country Volume 2.

Sideways (Clarence Greenwood song)

"Sideways" is a song written by American artist Clarence Greenwood, who is known by the pseudonym Citizen Cope. Although the song has never charted, it has been widely publicized in pop culture. The song is often referred to by a refrain from the song: These Feelings Won't Go Away. The song was included on Santana's 2002 album Shaman. Then Citizen Cope included it in his 2004 album. It has since been covered by artist such as Sheryl Crow and Corey Taylor.

Sideways (Jacob Young album)

Sideways is an album by Norwegian guitarist and composer Jacob Young released on the ECM label in 2008.

Usage examples of "sideways".

Well over six feet tall and built like a brick outhouse, he often found it necessary to enter a room sideways, his shoulders being too broad to be accommodated by a standard doorframe.

He shifted sideways on the couch, hands held like an advocate attempting to convince an antipathetic jury.

He did not go in at the door of the house, but turned sideways along the ledge below the balustrade, stopping at the object which had been fastened by the woman to the coping of the balcony.

With the aid of Hendel, the giant borderman began to roll the rounded battering ram sideways toward the wedge of Gnomes and the closed doors to the chamber beyond, the monstrous roller gathering speed and power with each revolution as it thundered toward the hapless guards.

Cerryl glanced sideways at Beryal, who seemed not to have noticed his momentary interest.

Sermon sprang in pursuit, grabbed him by the collar and threw him sideways on top of the blameless Bateman, whose face was rammed down against his own desk-lid with such violence that his spectacles snapped at the bridge and a lens flew in each direction.

The mushrooms, the fetishes, the wool and the wine, the mascara jars, the poppies, the crickets, the poison arrows, the bravura helixes of juicy smoke all spun like the stars: onward, outward, inward, backward, sideways, upside down, and forever.

But Hall had hardly run a dozen yards before he gave a loud shout of astonishment and went flying headlong sideways, clutching one of the labourers and bringing him to the ground.

SIDEWINDERS: They walk sideways as a measuring worm walks longways, although not exactly.

Out of the corner of his eye, Dasaratha caught Pradhan Mantri Sumantra stealing a sideways glance.

Sometimes at the end of a day, when the sun was breaking sideways through gaps in the clouds out to sea, shining weakly in the tinted windows and illuminating their faces as they sat around two desks covered by reprints and offprints, they would talk over the issues involved, and compare their most recent results, and try to make sense of the problem.

They fell sideways against the paneled wall, dislodging a photograph of Ethel Klayman from its nail.

I pulled hard on the left panic handle, the nylon on the left side of the parawing opened like a slit purse, the right wing -- still catching the strong ridge lift here -- banked up steeply, the parawing turned almost upside down with its useless left wing spilling air like so much empty aluminum frame, my legs were flung out sideways as the kite threatened to stall and plummet into the rocks, my boots actually brushed stone and lichen, and then the wing was falling almost straight down, I released the left handle, the active-memory fabric on the left leading surface healed itself in an instant, and I was flying again -- although in a near vertical dive.

The ship slipped sideways, as if sliding from an invisible surface that had been tilted beneath it, and a roaring, something like a waterfall but not really like any sound Parrah had ever heard before, reached her.

With a slight smile Pelly looked sideways down at him over her shoulder.