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Aside   /əsˈaɪd/   Listen
Aside

adverb
1.
On or to one side.  "Stood aside to let him pass" , "Threw the book aside" , "Put her sewing aside when he entered"
2.
Out of the way (especially away from one's thoughts).  Synonym: away.  "Pushed all doubts away"
3.
Not taken into account or excluded from consideration.  Synonym: apart.  "All joking aside, I think you're crazy"
4.
In a different direction.  Synonym: away.  "Turn away one's face" , "Glanced away"
5.
Placed or kept separate and distinct as for a purpose.  Synonym: apart.  "Quality sets it apart" , "A day set aside for relaxing"
6.
In reserve; not for immediate use.  Synonyms: away, by.  "Put something by for her old age" , "Has a nest egg tucked away for a rainy day"
noun
1.
A line spoken by an actor to the audience but not intended for others on the stage.
2.
A message that departs from the main subject.  Synonyms: digression, divagation, excursus, parenthesis.



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"Aside" Quotes from Famous Books



... remember letting drive at one fellow with an oar and thereafter laying about me until the stout timber shivered in my grasp. I remember the dull gleam of Sir Richard's darting blade and then the two boats had drifted apart. Tossing aside my shattered oar, I found me another and rowed until, gasping, I must needs pause awhile and so heard Sir ...
— Martin Conisby's Vengeance • Jeffery Farnol
... the rest, putting aside the doubtful Henriette de Moliere already referred to, are collections of love-stories, which their titles, rather than their contents, would seem to have represented to the ordinary commentator as loose. There is really very little ...
— A History of the French Novel, Vol. 1 - From the Beginning to 1800 • George Saintsbury
... dig this poor fellow's grave alone, I won't ask you to help me," said Dick, turning aside without attempting to exchange any further words with ...
— The Rival Crusoes • W.H.G. Kingston
... legislation in 1862; but Chase continued to stand aside and allow Congress the lead in establishing an excise law, an increase in the income tax, and a higher tariff—the last of which was necessitated by the excise law which has been described as a bill ...
— Abraham Lincoln and the Union - A Chronicle of the Embattled North, Volume 29 In The - Chronicles Of America Series • Nathaniel W. Stephenson
... then—you are my prisoners," he said in German. "File along the trench; my men will escort you to the rear." And, stepping back a few paces to the angle of the bay, he stood aside ...
— With Haig on the Somme • D. H. Parry


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