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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



... laid the bird aside, while Susan watched carefully to see just how the stew was made. When it began to boil, her mother picked up the sewing and told her to run and ...
— Some Three Hundred Years Ago • Edith Gilman Brewster
... China, and China sent down an army of militia-soldiers a million strong. Behind came the wives and sons and daughters and relatives, with their personal household luggage, in a second army. The French force was brushed aside like a fly. The Chinese militia-soldiers, along with their families, over five millions all told, coolly took possession of French Indo-China and settled down to stay ...
— The Strength of the Strong • Jack London
... every morning. His victuals must be dressed every time in new pots, and served at table in new dishes: both are very clean and neat, but made only of common clay; that without any considerable expense they may be laid aside, or broke, after they have served once. They are generally broke, for fear they should come into the hands of laymen, for they believe religiously, that if any layman should presume to eat his food out of these sacred dishes, it would swell and ...
— The Golden Bough - A study of magic and religion • Sir James George Frazer
... friends," he said, "I think it were best that we separated; laying aside our swords and, singly or in pairs, finding the way back to our homes. We know not in what towns there may be Roman garrisons, or where we may meet parties of their soldiers traversing the country. Alone, we shall attract no attention. One man may conceal himself behind a tree, or in the smallest ...
— For the Temple - A Tale of the Fall of Jerusalem • G. A. Henty
... their abuse of nature's best energies. With her husband, Mrs. Graham could not bring herself to speak upon the subject. But she felt that her duty as a mother was involved in regard to her son, and therefore she early took occasion to draw him aside, and remonstrate against the course of folly ...
— The Lights and Shadows of Real Life • T.S. Arthur


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