sideways
Use Sideways in a sentence
adverb
1.
with a side foremost.
2.
facing to the side.
3.
toward or from one side.
4.
with a deceitful, scornful, disparaging, or amorous glance.
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Sideways
is always a great word to know.
So is interrobang. Does it mean:
| a screen or mat covered with a dark material for shielding a camera lens from excess light or glare. |
| a printed punctuation mark (‽), available only in some typefaces, designed to combine the question mark (?) and the exclamation point (!), indicating a mixture of query and interjection, as after a rhetorical question. |
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| —adv | |
| 1. | moving, facing, or inclining towards one side |
| 2. | from one side; obliquely |
| 3. | with one side forward |
| —adj | |
| 4. | moving or directed to or from one side |
| 5. | towards or from one side |
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Word Origin & History
sideways
1577, from side (n.). To look sideways "cast scornful glances" is recorded from 1844.
Online Etymology Dictionary, © 2010 Douglas Harper
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American Heritage
The American Heritage® Dictionary of Idioms by Christine Ammer.
Copyright © 1997. Published by Houghton Mifflin.
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Example sentences
Pops let out a snort and moved sideways to the edge of the wharf, where he looked below and side to side.
If the claw has a weak grip, try knocking objects sideways into the prize chute.
Other sensors measure whether the car is accelerating sideways, or whether the wheels are turning at different speeds.
The up and down, or sideways, movement ratchets up a spring that then turns some gears and flywheels.
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