Aside
[ə'saɪd]
Definition
(noun.) a line spoken by an actor to the audience but not intended for others on the stage.
(adv.) 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'.
(adv.) on or to one side; 'step aside'; 'stood aside to let him pass'; 'threw the book aside'; 'put her sewing aside when he entered'.
(adv.) out of the way (especially away from one's thoughts); 'brush the objections aside'; 'pushed all doubts away'.
(adv.) 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'.
Typed by Lena--From WordNet
Definition
(adv.) On, or to, one side; out of a straight line, course, or direction; at a little distance from the rest; out of the way; apart.
(adv.) Out of one's thoughts; off; away; as, to put aside gloomy thoughts.
(adv.) So as to be heard by others; privately.
(n.) Something spoken aside; as, a remark made by a stageplayer which the other players are not supposed to hear.
Typist: Marcus
Synonyms and Synonymous
ad. [1]. Laterally, to the side, to one side.[2]. Out of the straight course, out of the true course.[3]. Apart, separately, away.
Typist: Ralph
Definition
adv. on or to one side: privately: apart.—n. words spoken in an undertone so as not to be heard by some person present words spoken by an actor which the other persons on the stage are supposed not to hear: an indirect effort of any kind.—adj. private apart.—To set aside to quash (a judgment).
Checker: Sophia
Examples
- The whole staff of instructors, male and female, he set aside, and stood on the examiner's estrade alone. Charlotte Bronte. Villette.
- He closed his eyes and looked aside, triumphant. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
- Oh, I don't know, said Caleb, swinging his head aside. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
- Put me aside for ever,--you have done so, I well know,--but bestow yourself on some worthier person than Drummle. Charles Dickens. Great Expectations.
- It was the sum she had set aside to pacify her dress-maker--unless she should decide to use it as a sop to the jeweller. Edith Wharton. The House of Mirth.
- She turned aside her head; the neck, the clear cheek, forsaken by their natural veil, were seen to flush warm. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
- For once I must, was the answer; and if I had not slipped aside and kept out of his way, he would have compelled me to this second performance. Charlotte Bronte. Villette.
- He could kill him at his leisure later, when the bow and deadly arrows were laid aside. Edgar Rice Burroughs. Tarzan of the Apes.
- Proofs like these are not to be set aside by the idle tongues of cavilers. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
- Men have hitherto thought you magnanimous and wise, will you cast aside these titles? Mary Shelley. The Last Man.
- While turning in febrile restlessness, she had pushed the coverlets a little aside. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
- Gerty's compassionate instincts, responding to the swift call of habit, swept aside all her reluctances. Edith Wharton. The House of Mirth.
- Upon this history, therefore, mechanical and illiberal as it may seem (all fineness and daintiness set aside), the greatest diligence must be bestowed. Walter Libby. An Introduction to the History of Science.
- Miss Pross had lighted the lamp, but had put it aside in a corner, that they might enjoy the fire-light undisturbed. Charles Dickens. A Tale of Two Cities.
- I moved aside and took a general view of the can-can. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
- Already, as Miss Brooke passed out of the dining-room, opportunity was found for some interjectional asides. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
- He was too busy, too practical, and above all too much preoccupied with his own advancement, to indulge in such unprofitable asides. Edith Wharton. The House of Mirth.
Edited by Jeremy