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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



... King was bidden to write notes to his chief anti-Progressive Ministers, summoning them to his presence. As they arrived, "one by one, each in his turn, was despatched by the students and his body thrown aside." ...
— Korea's Fight for Freedom • F.A. McKenzie
... move that the money at present in our treasury be set aside as a profit and divided among the stockholders ...
— Rimrock Jones • Dane Coolidge
... two," said Polly, "but she punched the other in with her thumb; don't, boys," she said, aside, "you'll make her feel bad; do stop laughing. Now, ...
— Five Little Peppers And How They Grew • Margaret Sidney
... him by the city. He accompanied it with very polite expressions of his esteem for me, having, as he said, been long acquainted with my character. After dinner, when the company, as was customary at that time, were engag'd in drinking, he took me aside into another room, and acquainted me that he had been advis'd by his friends in England to cultivate a friendship with me, as one who was capable of giving him the best advice, and of contributing most effectually to the making his administration ...
— Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin • Benjamin Franklin
... the depths of her heart. From the first her delicately feminine instinct told her that it is a far better thing to obey a man of talent than to lead a fool; and that a young wife compelled to act and think like a man is neither man nor woman, but a being who lays aside all the charms of her womanhood along with its misfortunes, yet acquires none of the privileges which our laws give to the stronger sex. Beneath the surface her life was a bitter mockery. Was she not compelled to protect her protector, ...
— A Woman of Thirty • Honore de Balzac


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