sideways
adjectifadverbenomattesté dans les dialogues
- //ˈsaɪdweɪz//
Moving or directed toward one side.
adjectif
- 1
Moving or directed toward one side.
Giving Mary a sideways glance, he said,[…].
He gave the ball a sideways kick.
- 2
familierPositioned sideways (with a side to the front).
There was a stack of papers in front of each seat at the table, but each stack was sideways.
- 3
familierNeither moving upward nor moving downward.
Once we get out of this sideways economy, our figures will more accurately reflect what we're truly capable of.
- 4
familierIn conflict (with); not compatible (with).
He was constantly getting sideways with his boss till he got fired.
Étymologie
From side + -ways.
adverbe
- 1
With a side to the front.
He builds houses sideways, with the front door on the side.
- 2
Towards one side.
A bishop moves only diagonally; a rook, only sideways, forward, and back.
He looked sideways at the new arrival, wondering who she was.
“A tight little craft,” was Austin’s invariable comment on the matron;[…]. ¶ Near her wandered her husband, orientally bland, invariably affable, and from time to time squinting sideways, as usual, in the ever-renewed expectation that he might catch a glimpse of his stiff, retroussé moustache.
- 3
Askance; sidelong.
- 4
familierNeither upward nor downward.
The economy has been moving sideways for several months now.
- 5
Not as planned; towards a worse outcome.
We realized the project could go sideways very quickly if we didn't get the sales and marketing people on our side.
As we walked deeper into the darkness, we both knew this could go sideways in a heartbeat. We were sitting ducks. Birds on a wire. Canaries in a coalmine.
It feels like the probability of something going sideways here is higher.
nom
- 1
Aussi une forme de sidewayplural of sideway
And he was just taking byways and sideways, travelling in the peripheries of civilization, yeah?
In time our way merged into a throng of cars flowing here and there on the highways and sideways of the north side of Los Angeles.
Expansion of economic activities resulted in the construction of a so—called fishbone pattern of roads and sideways.
Étymologie
See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.
Formes
- comparatif
- more sideways
- superlatif
- most sideways
sideways · Moving or directed toward one side.
siding · A building material which covers and protects the sides of a…Sidney · An English habitational surname.sie · To sink; fall; drop.