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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
two-sided
adjective
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
▪ two-sided adhesive tape
▪ a two-sided issue
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ By the reign of Edward the Confessor royal writs were authenticated by having a two-sided seal attached.
▪ It needed a two-sided commitment and, willingly or not, Niall was already committed, to another woman.
▪ Man's nature was two-sided, only half of it led to wrong-doing, the other half prohibited sin.
▪ More than 3,000 copies of a colourful two-sided leaflet have been produced to give a quick-reference guide to the town's attractions.
▪ The verdict on Bonar Law's first three years as leader must be a two-sided one.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Two-sided

Two-sided \Two"-sid`ed\, a.

  1. Having two sides only; hence, double-faced; hypocritical.

  2. (Biol.) Symmetrical.

Wiktionary
two-sided

a. 1 having two sides 2 symmetrical 3 reversible

WordNet
two-sided

  1. adj. capable of being reversed or used with either side out; "a reversible jacket" [syn: reversible] [ant: nonreversible]

  2. having two sides or parts [syn: bilateral] [ant: unilateral, multilateral]

Usage examples of "two-sided".

Baron, older in time, more vicious and less proud with his bastard Spanish-German head thrust back and upwards at the agony-carved rafters, more hot and princely and dog-like under his eyes and stripped arms, waited until precisely the proper moment when the eyes found their two-sided common target, when the arena drifted with unraked ashes, to slip to his knees and draw as in sleep a weapon from the debris.

At some distance, raised on a dazzling white wall above the desert in an unshaded place, Domini saw a narrow, two-sided white house, with a flat roof and a few tiny loopholes instead of windows.