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Synonyms for sideways
ˈsaɪdˌweɪzside·ways
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Princeton's WordNet
crabwise, sidewaysadverb
(of movement) at an angle
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crabwiseAntonyms:
perpendicular, parallelsideways, sideway, sidewiseadverb
with one side forward or to the front
"turned sideways to show the profile"; "crabs seeming to walk sidewise"
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sidelong, obliquely, sidewise, sidewayAntonyms:
perpendicular, parallelsideway, sideways, sidewiseadverb
from the side; obliquely
"a picture lit sideways"; "scenes viewed sidewise"
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sideway, sidelong, obliquely, sidewiseAntonyms:
perpendicular, parallelsideways, sideway, sidewiseadverb
toward one side
"the car slipped sideways into the ditch"; "leaning sideways"; "a figure moving sidewise in the shadows"
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sidelong, obliquely, sidewise, sidewayAntonyms:
parallel, perpendicularsidelong, sideways, obliquelyadverb
to, toward or at one side
"darting eyes looking sidelong out of a wizened face"
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sidewise, aslant, sidelong, obliquely, athwart, sidewayAntonyms:
perpendicular, parallel
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Words popularity by usage frequency
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#551 | side | |
#5484 | aside | |
#21714 | sideways | |
#46085 | laterally | |
#87805 | obliquely | |
#172227 | sidelong | |
#177396 | athwart | |
#260621 | sidewise | |
#325170 | sideway |
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It is part of a long process since the summer. There was expectation that rents would fall and that didn’t happen. Rents peaked last summer. Every month since then, they’ve been moving sideways, with a modest increase, it was just enough to set a new record.
Being the only Black representative in the group, even though I am only half-Black and being of Jamaican heritage, people kept throwing jokes, sideways jokes at me about' Cool Runnings,' Cool Runnings and,' You should go to the Olympics,'.
Asian shares traded sideways on Tuesday following a mixed handover from Wall Street, tuesday’s session is the last trading day of the month and some volatility is to be expected as traders hunt for liquidity while trying to get better prices for the monthly settlement, especially on the FX and rates space.
The car was pitched sideways and I collected the barriers. It was just the wrong place at the wrong time, i had a bit of bruising on my feet so it was just my ego and the car that had to suffer.
The reason that we can't understand these motions; the brain if you like can't understand these motions, is that there's continual conflict between what is upright and whether you should lean to balance yourself in the environment or whether you're actually experiencing a sideways acceleration force. You imagine being on a bicycle or a motorbike; you go round a corner, you lean into the corner which remains perfectly upright in physics. You don't so that in a car, you don't do that on a ship - you're actually struggling to find out what is upright and what's the best way of dealing with it.
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