单词 | side-on |
释义 | side-onadv.adj. A. adv. With one side directed towards or facing something (frequently with to). Also: from or towards the side. ΘΚΠ the world > space > direction > specific directions > [adverb] > in sideways direction > side-on sideling1548 sidelings1558 sidewise1588 sideways1598 sidelong1610 side-on1849 sideways-on1874 1849 Colburn's United Service Mag. May 114 She was ‘side on’, with her three masts and the bellying edges of her sails against the blue eastern haze, but every now and then she would..present the front of her canvass. 1878 E. S. Elwell Boy Colonists 45 A short distance in front of this, for it was side on to the chief hotel, lay the men's hotel. 1909 L. M. Montgomery Anne of Avonlea xiv. 154 His farm is side-on to the Newbridge road. 1960 Times 10 June 19/1 He may have been a little more side-on at the moment of delivery. 1977 J. Cleary Vortex viii. 204 Wind was hitting the car side-on. 2011 J. Douglas Doomsday Test. 107 Now he closed it and looked at it side-on. B. adj. Directed from or towards one side; indirect, oblique; spec. designating a collision involving the side of a vehicle. ΘΚΠ the world > space > direction > specific directions > [adjective] > having sideways direction sidelingc1155 sidelong1608 sideward?1617 sideway1650 sidewise1680 sideways1684 side-on1900 sideways-on1964 the world > space > direction > specific directions > [preposition] > side-on to sidelong1846 side-on1900 society > travel > transport > transport or conveyance in a vehicle > vehicular traffic > [adjective] > type of accident or collision head-on1887 side-on1900 non-injury1972 1900 Cedar Rapids (Iowa) Evening Gaz. 27 June 1/4 The perilous experience of the excursionists followed a side-on collision which threw the two cars from their trucks. 1917 Motor World 21 Feb. 15 Setting all the cars the same way so that a head-on or a side-on view is obtained of all. 1928 Daily Mail 16 Aug. 13/7 Side-on collisions frequently occur owing to blurred side curtains. 1976 Ld. Home Way Wind Blows xi. 156 One of our delegation was sitting with a side-on view of the rostrum. 2013 Dalby (Queensland) Herald (Nexis) 26 Apr. 3 Two vehicles were involved in a side-on smash. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2016; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < |
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