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/sˈaɪdlˌaɪn/ Listen

noun

Side line, Sideline n.

(a)

A line pertaining or attached to the side of a thing.

(b)

Specif., a line for hobbling an animal by connecting the fore and the hind feet of the same side.

A line of goods sold in addition to one's principal articles of trade; a course of business pursued aside from one's regular occupation.

A secondary road; esp., a byroad at right angles to a main road. (Canada)

(Sports) Either of two marked lines which delimit the side boundaries of a playing field, as in football or soccer.

(Sports) (plural) The areas in a sports arena just beyond the sidelines (4), where coaches and alternative players sit or stand.

on the sidelines not actively involved in an activity, such as a sporting event, but available for use when needed; in reserve; as, the coach kept him on the sidelines for a week.

verb

Sideline v. t. To render unable to participate in an activity, such as a sporting event; as, the pitcher was sidelined by a groin injury.

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Etymology of 'Sideline'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Sideline" Quotes from Famous Books

... the pulps. Karen has a little general-antique business in Rosemont. They intend using their share of the collection, plus such culls and duplicates as the rest of us can consign to them, to go into the arms business, with a general-antique sideline, which Karen can manage while Pierre's writing.... Tell you what; I'll call a meeting at my place tomorrow evening, say at eight ...

— Murder in the Gunroom • Henry Beam Piper

... animals," answered Old Beard. "The terrestrial food plants grown hydroponically and sold in the dome cities actually are a supplemental sideline to the real purpose of this place. Marscorp is conducting its own experiments here, with ...

— Rebels of the Red Planet • Charles Louis Fontenay

... to his boots), but he had indoor hands, a back as straight as an Injun's, an' a way of flingin' up his head an' drawin' down his brows when you spoke to him sudden, which proved 'at trampin' was only a sideline with him. He put in an application as cook for ...

— Happy Hawkins • Robert Alexander Wason

... we had been half an hour swimming those ten-miles. Was daylight coming? It seemed that the sideline of mountain-tops had a little light on them. The opalescent beam from Earth had swept this portion of the sky and was ...

— Wandl the Invader • Raymond King Cummings

... Christ also taught and expounded the Law. But it was incidental. It was a sideline with Him. He did not come into the world for the purpose of teaching the Law, as little as it was the purpose of His coming to perform miracles. Teaching the Law and performing miracles did not constitute His unique mission to the world. The prophets ...

— Commentary on the Epistle to the Galatians • Martin Luther