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beside

[bih-sahyd]

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preposition

by or at the side of; near: Sit down beside me.

compared with: Beside him other writers seem amateurish.

apart from; not connected with: beside the point; beside the question.

besides (defs. 4, 5).

adverb

along the side of something: The family rode in the carriage, and the dog ran along beside.

besides (def. 2).

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Idiom

beside oneself, almost out of one's senses from a strong emotion, as from joy, delight, anger, fear, or grief: He was beside himself with rage when the train left without him.

Origin:
before 1000; Middle English; earlier bi-siden, Old English bī sīdan, be sīdan; see be-, side

Can be confused: beside, besides (see usage note at the current entry).

Usage note
For the prepositional meanings “over and above, in addition to” and “except” besides is preferred, especially in edited writing: Besides these honors he received a sum of money. We heard no other sound besides the breaking surf. However, beside sometimes occurs with these meanings as well.

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For a certain kind of company, recessions may be beside the point.

Located beside the lake for which the city is named, the campus is spectacular and visitors marvel at its beauty.

But the quality of the service is so poor that a parallel private service is growing up beside it.

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For a certain kind of company, recessions may be beside the point.

Located beside the lake for which the city is named, the campus is spectacular and visitors marvel at its beauty.

But the quality of the service is so poor that a parallel private service is growing up beside it.

Sha sits beside me on a folding chair, enjoying an early morning cigarette after a bath in the river.

On the terrace, a few parents chatted beside an alluring spread of bagels, coffee and fruit.

The two men were seated on a heavy blackwood sofa, beside an aluminum spittoon.

Set the container in a high-visibility area, such as on a patio or beside an entry.

Nearby, in a storage room beside the vault, an ordinary-looking red fire extinguisher was strapped to the wall.

In fact, serious relationships with young women their age are beside the point.

Barns lean wildly or collapse inwards, slouchy silhouettes beside neat rows of corn.

To support himself, he worked as a laborer in a limestone quarry and later a factory, reading books on theology beside a boiler.

The miller is at home near his millstones and beside his dam.

The trophy rested on a mantel in their family room, beside an oil painting.

Stick a label in the ground beside the rose and you're done.

Chillanis glances periodically at the screen of a laptop beside him, where a bold line maps a trajectory of the car's path.

The truth of the gender binary is so central to our culture that evidence is beside the point.

Not that long ago, viewers had little beside heavily censored state-owned channels.

There are many other factors involved in food safety beside the grower's philosophy.

Your comment about it not saving oil is beside the point.

Tepee of bamboo poles tied together at top supports beans planted beside poles.

The fact that even toddlers are capable of manipulating complicated technology is beside the point.

The university plans to move the music school from its current location beside the.

For now, its biggest draw is a patch of levelled ground beside the main palace.

Beside the walking track is a treadmill for the horses.

Part of the greatness of any man is the woman who stands beside and behind him.

Colorful sprinkles aren't lowbrow beside sifted cocoa.

He doesn't see any way of opening it beside prying it out.

Critics of global capitalism often claim that, when it comes to helping the poor, growth is beside the point.

Several models of crystal lattices sit beside the window, and a pyramid of tennis balls rises from the floor.

Animals ran past them, many with burned feet, and predator and prey ran beside each other in an attempt to escape.

Other outdoor rooms include a bed for shade plants beside the house and a small lawn.

Finding and staying beside the food earned the robots points.

Rather, the question is how regulations might help engineered crops exist beside conventional and organic ones.

There's an example where a concrete house collapsed right beside a wood-frame one that's a hundred years old.

Attractive in woodland or beside pond or stream more add to my plant list enlarge.

Beside setting a record, the real objective was to test the airplane's ability to fly long distances while gathering data.

Beside that, the bubble is in the cost not the supply.

All acts are driven by people's mind which are being influenced constantly by external beside internal factors.

Vivid in a green pot beside coleus with deep burgundy-brown leaves.

Only the smashed furniture, the officer standing beside me, and the adrenaline spikes are real.

The scientific interpretation only a talking beside the point.

Some yards are filled with abandoned cars and old boats, and tanning salons sit beside organic bakeries.

Bob is my father-in-law, but that's beside the point.

Whether or not she is arrogant is completely beside the point.

Plant torch lily beside a red cordyline to make its orange flower clusters really pop.

Kodak announced plans for new film-processing retail kiosks to sit beside their digital counterparts.

Complaints about the examples are entirely beside the point.

Grown as an annual in cold climates, it is especially pretty beside gloriosa daisies or purple coneflower.

There are also undulating dragons and sea horses languishing beside giant shells.

He and his wife enjoy golfing together and birdwatching at the lake beside their home.

Beside it, on a wooden pallet, was a strange metal contraption about.

Hashim al-Menti smiled wanly at the marine sergeant beside him on his couch.

But that relatively modest underpayment pales beside the perennial exploitation of adjunct faculty members.

He was in his colonel's uniform and beret, with white gloves that made his hands seem enormous beside his emaciated.

Beside which, paid reviews always have a set of points the marketing guys want you to hit, making the reviews look hokey.

Whether or not this actually happened-and some biographers believe that it did-is almost beside the point.

Bursting laughter could be heard from the audio room beside the courtroom where the trial's sound was being broadcast.

The phones ring nonstop, people are always coming in, and half the callers and drop-ins are beside themselves.

Whether or not the in-copyright book is publicly available is completely beside the point.

Whether people consume more good energy is beside the point.

Dozens of wine and beer bottles beside a fully loaded recycling container await pickup.

The kitchen contains a bright breakfast area beside the back staircase.

Imitation of other people's ways holds pale pleasure at best beside that of creating one.

It sits across from a pond and beside a field where the college's team of woodsmen practices.

The deals known to have been pulled pale beside the number quietly delayed.

As he lies beside his vehicle, unable to reach his radio to contact his.

But all that stuff always seems slightly beside the point.

Police cruisers parked behind and beside you, riding in a tow truck, then getting to operate the tow truck's lift controls:.

Several small stores and houses beside the consulate were also damaged.

Whether intuition is on the mark or not is beside the point.

Last week soldiers stood beside polling stations snarling at.

He and his wife enjoy golfing together and bird watching at the lake beside their home.

One shows a young boy playing cymbals on a sidewalk beside a plastic doll's decapitated head.

Against a trellis beside a driveway in one garden, the women planted sweet peas that.

Beside me the fuzzy edge of the counter becomes a strong line, and then the computer atop it snaps into place.

His lawyer's young intern, sitting beside him at the defense table, looked more nervous than he did.

They take each other's photographs on mobile phones, grinning, thumbs-up life beside death.

Beside him on the billiards table sits a chunk of rock the size of home plate.

In many ways, though, the continuing debate over taxes versus cap and trade is beside the point.

The other cases are directly beside the main case and main label.

We now know that the risks of splitting atoms pale beside the dreadful toll exacted by fossil fuels.

Grieve not for her nor speak of her with tears but laugh and tell of her as though she was beside us.

And when you sign a credit card application, nobody's sitting there beside you.

The man beside him, on the point of jumping off, had taken a bullet in the face and gone under.

Have the students place a colored dot beside the islands they have visited on the world map.

At his feet, beside the fire, a pipe carved in the image of a rattlesnake rests on a cedar box.

By comparison, the group's studio albums can feel optional, almost beside the point.

Understanding why they are poor becomes an academic question, interesting, but beside the point.

But that is trivial beside the potential loss of bulk mail.

Right beside you, the crash of waves blends with the bark of sea lions.

We actually enjoyed ourselves, but that's beside the point.

After shower time, she would stand on a stool beside him as he lathered up.

But what motivated his critics is mostly beside the point.

On a street named after an ancient philosopher you might find a bordello beside a chic restaurant.

We stopped beside a macaque strapped into what resembled a child's high chair.

They securely wedge the remains for storage on top of limbs in trees or on the ground beside logs, trees.

Sadly, it also had less reliability, but that's beside the point.

Gates' own personal qualifications are beside the point here.

In the daylight, the charred skeleton of the roof now hangs precariously beside the empty.

Whether the technology is illegal or immoral or not is beside the point.

Most princes never rated fielding beside the individual skills of batting or bowling.

The larger the angle, the more people should be able to crowd beside the set.

So the reference you looked up and cited is beside the point.

Those numbers look tiddly beside the public-sector pension deficits.

He decided to burn the stuff near a shed beside a small pond and headed back to the car.

Whether or not the books succeed, either as fiction or social commentary, is beside the point.

Whether the pattern of consumption based on these false prices is sustainable is really beside the point.

He kneels down beside one of the pale forms, breathes into its mouth, and tries to bring it back to life.

But these pale beside other issues the labour movement is pursuing.

Maybe the arguments over whether exchange rates should be fixed, free or managed are beside the point.

Another showed, beside a tray of perfume bottles, two stone hands twisted in pain.

They will be reminded of it again when they place these essays beside a new edition of the poems.

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World English Dictionary

beside (bɪˈsaɪd)

—*prep* (often foll by with)
1.	next to; at, by, or to the side of
2.	as compared with
3.	away from; wide of: beside the point
4.	archaic besides
5.	beside oneself overwhelmed; overwrought: beside oneself with grief

—*adv*
6.	at, by, to, or along the side of something or someone

[Old English be sīdan; see by, side]

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Word Origin & History

beside

O.E. be sidan "by the side of" (only as two words), from sidan dative of side (q.v.). By 1200, formed as one word and used as both adverb and preposition. The alternative M.E. meaning "outside" led to the sense preserved in beside oneself "out of one's wits" (late 15c.).

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