aside

Meanings

1. 1
   adv

   in a different direction

   turn aside

2. 2
   adv

   on or to one side

   step aside

3. 3
   adv

   out of the way (especially away from one's thoughts)

   brush the objections aside

4. 4
   adv

   To or on one side so as to be out of the way.

   Move aside, please, so that these people can come through.

5. 5
   adv

   Excluded from consideration.

   joking aside

6. 6
   adj

   Not in perfect symmetry; distorted laterally, especially of the human body.

   Her figure was slight; but the cruel accident—a fall in her childhood, which had laid the foundation of her ill health—had made her a little aside, and caused a degree of lameness, which rendered it difficult for her to move without assistance.

7. 7
   noun

   A minor related mention, an afterthought.

   This, then, is what we have done up to now in this book. (As I have been doing right along) may I make an aside? (An aside is a part in an old-time play or movie in which an actor steps out of character to say something to the audience of a semi-private or semi-confidential nature about the play.) I am confounded, and somewhat appalled when I read over the scholarly works referred to

8. 8
   adv

   placed or kept separate and distinct as for a purpose

Etymology

From Middle English aside, asyde, a-side, oside, from Middle English on side, from Old English on sīdan (literally “on (the) side (of)”), equivalent to a- + side. Compare beside.