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aside

aside

337 1.2
To one side, away from where attention is
  • adverb
  • /əˈsaɪd/
translation icon : a un lado
  • We have put all of our disagreements aside and made this movement our focus.
  • push aside
  • step aside
  • take someone aside

All right, so move the paperwork aside and this is it.

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Examples

  • But even putting that issue aside, there are two related and deeper problems.

    Academic text (2017)
  • All right, So let's put the case aside for now, I guess.

  • What do they do, take you all aside in high school and show you how?

    Fiction book (1990)
  • Just be sure to keep a little money aside for when it breaks, which it will.

  • And Stephen King pulled him aside and just said enjoy it.

  • But maybe it's time we put egos aside and listened to the evidence!

    Academic text (2008)
  • But they sweep these details aside to concentrate on what they adore.

    Academic text (2011)
  • Beneath the motor's hum was the echo of a past I pushed aside in my busy American life.

    Academic text (2011)
  • When the drummers stepped aside and the organ began, she walked down the flower-strewn aisle.

    Fiction book (1990)
  • If we put our differences aside, we can work together more effectively.

Synonyms

away
vsaside
1.0

To move or look to a place that is not here

often includes being ignored mentally or physically relocated too
out of the way
vsaside
356 2.6

Moved aside so it does not block people

also means ignored or not considered, not only physically moved
apart
vsaside
253 1.0

Except for something or someone

also covers physical movement elsewhere, not only exclusion from thought
afield
vsaside
3 7.7

Not connected to the main topic and moving away from it

is broader, covering physical position and mental exclusion too

Antonyms

1.0

In the same place or group with other people

1.1

To think carefully before making a decision

Compounds

1 4.9

Kept in advance for a particular use or person

Surface Forms

aside positive

Morphology

aside = side (transparent) = a + side

This sense is directly understandable as 'to/on one side' from the noun 'side' with the old adverbial prefix 'a-'.

Etymology

Aside comes from the parts a- meaning 'on' and side meaning 'side', so it literally means 'on the side'. That's why to look or move aside is to turn 'to one side' or to try not to notice something.