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alongside
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
alongside
adverb
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADJECTIVE
other
▪ Frequently, this is part-time and is managed - albeit with difficulty - alongside other family responsibilities.
▪ This means that if they fight alongside other troops their vulnerability will drag down your overall combat result score.
▪ For example, inversion to Hospitals, Military will cause this heading to file alongside other headings commencing with the word Hospitals.
■ VERB
come
▪ The mystery was in all of their thoughts as silently and grimly they came alongside.
▪ A man and a woman watched as we came alongside with myself leaning over the side of the open bridge of Venturous.
▪ He prepared words of encouragement as he came alongside.
▪ Barry Silk was already with Martin Grant when they came alongside.
draw
▪ A dolphin drew alongside, and by counter-opposing its flippers, barrel-rolled right in front of his mask.
▪ I made a rough count as the launch slowed to draw alongside: fifty men, thirty women, twenty children.
▪ The driver flashed the lights and the car drew alongside.
pull
▪ Impulsively, the Squat swung the trike to pull alongside, so that one wheel dragged on the slower strip.
▪ I pulled alongside and lifted off the skipper.
▪ As we pull alongside, I see Teddy and Janice in the crowd.
▪ As he pulled alongside, I instinctively lifted my hand.
▪ As the driver stopped to check his Nissan Pathfinder for damage, the red pickup truck which hit it pulled alongside.
run
▪ When he was running alongside, he eased off the gas and matched his speed to that of the other vehicle.
▪ White-suited drivers, wearing straw hats and Madeiran boots, run alongside, pushing the toboggan to gain momentum.
▪ A detective course is among a number of vocational studies planned to run alongside traditional academic courses from September next year.
sit
▪ Some titles, once made, sit on the shelf; others, released, deserve to sit alongside.
▪ Today the obviously ancient framework sits alongside modern additions and reconstructions.
▪ Magisterial palaces and impressive churches sit alongside simple, scenic quaysides and straw-hatted gondoliers.
work
▪ Psychiatrists may increasingly be working alongside general practitioners, but there are few training posts in community psychiatry.
▪ They found themselves working alongside like-minded young people with similar values to their own.
▪ A decade later 7,000 soldiers were working alongside civilian miners.
▪ After all we've been mates, working alongside at the smithy.
▪ Minutes later another team appeared and they worked alongside.
▪ Certainly working alongside as a female isn't easy.
▪ They feel that working alongside disabled students gives a particular significance to their teaching and learning.
▪ He says that labour would offer a partnership with industry, working alongside and promoting training and investment.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Alongside

Alongside \A*long"side`\, adv. Along or by the side; side by side with; -- often with of; as, bring the boat alongside; alongside of him; alongside of the tree.

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
alongside

1707, from along + side (n.). A word formed from a phrase. Originally mostly nautical.

Wiktionary
alongside

adv. along the side; by the side; side by side with. prep. together with or at the same time.

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WordNet
alongside

adv. side by side; "anchored close aboard another ship" [syn: aboard]

Usage examples of "alongside".

The Sherlock and the Watson floated alongside the offloaded actinium waiting for a lighter to arrive and recover the stolen merchandise.

Men came out from stores and counting houses, eager to have a hand in forestalling the embargo, and worked, adrip with perspiration, alongside stevedores and wharf rats and seamen and teamsters and farmers.

Presently the canoe came alongside and two or three dozen large albacore were tossed on deck.

He had a tendency to jumble one topic in with another as things occurred to him, and a good deal of it was profane, but Alec managed to sift out enough to set his mind at rest by the time they drew alongside the sleek hull of the Grampus.

A gray Alfa Romeo was parked in dry grass alongside a tiny three-wheel farm vehicle.

Dickinson of Scouting Six flew through several minutes of antiaircraft fire when the third chose to fight it out on the surface, then climbed to attack altitude and carefully placed his bomb right alongside amidships.

As the Saint prostrated himself alongside Amity, he could hear the voice of a man, apparently speaking to the dog.

For months, Dornan had been having god knows what nightmares about Tammy maybe sitting in seven separate garbage bags in a ditch alongside some dirt road in Alabama, or getting married to a red-haired, pompous psychologist, or wandering New York in an amnesiac daze.

Stray cannonballs, aimed too high, howled overhead, while others, aimed too low, skipped across the surface of the water and crashed into the friendly ships anchored alongside them.

As soon as he appeared his companion hauled his sail round to bring the aviso alongside the Ariadne.

Not much later a bergantine had come rowing out of a hidden cove and had drawn alongside them, carefully remaining a bow-shot away.

Dach passed alongside the table, saying a few words to each man, and reconciling those who like Buchner and young Birken were becoming embroiled in argument ahead of time.

The Biter was alongside the rigging wharf, starboard side to, and almost without a conscious intention he crossed the deck, swung legs across the bulwarks, and clambered down on to the dockside That Sam Holt had betrayed him he would not believe.

They took in the jib to slow the boat down, and signaled Bobber to come alongside.

Their own dinghy, deflated and folded around its gas cylinder, is stashed alongside that hatch in another piece of botchy retrofitting.