aside1 adverbaside2 noun
asidea‧side1 /əˈsaɪd/ ●●○ S3 W3 adverb 
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER DICTIONARIES
- Sound problems aside, some of the acts stood out as winners.
- However, leaving aside the intolerable heat, there was no doubt that New York was a really amazing place.
- Kate Miskin pushed open the first door on the left and stood aside for Dalgliesh and Massingham to enter.
- Labels aside, some have been remarkably successful.
- Remove eggplant with slotted utensil and set aside.
- That aside, don't go thinking we've made things to easy for you.
- They provide a basis for evaluating shorter-term budgets and prevent long-term aims from being forced aside by short-term operational needs.
- Tie securely if desired and set aside in a roasting pan on a rack.
- We stepped aside but it stopped, and Ricardo Ruiz leaned across the front seat.
Longman Language Activatorto keep something so that someone else can use it later
to not sell or give something to anyone else, so that someone can have it or use it later: · Let's save some of this pizza for Jill.· I haven't got enough money with me right now. Can you keep the vase for me while I go to the bank?· If you get any foreign stamps, could you save them for me? My nephew collects them.
British informal to keep something for someone until they are able to collect it, pay for it etc: · If I pay you for the chairs now, could you put them by and I'll collect them tomorrow?
if a shop or a company holds something for someone, they keep it until the person can come to buy or get it: · Your tickets will be held at the box office until one hour before the performance.· I got the post office to hold our mail while we were away.
to keep something separate and not use it because someone is going to buy it or use it later: · One of the rooms was set aside for a yoga class.· They didn't have the dress I wanted but said they would put one aside for me when they had a delivery.
to save money to gradually collect money by not spending all the money you have, especially when you regularly put some of it in a bank: · I find it very difficult to save - I just spend everything I get.· How long did it take you to save all that money?· It's a low-paid job, but she still manages to save a few dollars each week.· She planned to work until she had saved enough money to attend nursing school in Nashville.save for (=save money in order to pay for something): · They've already started saving for their next vacation.
to save money in order to buy something or to do something: · If you want a new bike you'll have to start saving up.· She's saved up enough money to take a course in computer science.save up to do something: · Dave's been saving up for months to buy a new camera.save up for: · It took me ages to save up for those trainers.
to regularly save part of the money you earn, especially over a long period of time: set aside something: · We've all been setting aside a little money each month for a trip to Disneyland.set something aside: · If you want to build up a good pension fund, you should start setting aside a small part of your earnings now.
to try to save money by spending less on the things you need and by saving what you can, especially when you do not earn very much: · After years of scrimping and saving, we've finally got enough money to go on a foreign holiday.scrimp and save to do something: · My parents had to scrimp and save for years to send me to college.
COLLOCATIONS FROM THE ENTRY
I’ve been setting aside a few pounds each week. One of the rooms was set aside for a yoga class. Try to set aside a few hours a week for exercise. Could you put this cake aside for me? He pushed his half-eaten salad aside and left. He stepped aside to let Katherine go in first. Mark drew me aside and explained the problem. He brushed aside criticisms of his performance. Leaving aside the heat, we really enjoyed our holiday. You must put aside your pride and call her.COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES Cast aside your fears. Leaving aside for a moment the question of expense, what would your view be of the suggested changes?COLLOCATIONS FROM THE CORPUSVERB
I’ve been setting aside a few pounds each week. One of the rooms was set aside for a yoga class. Try to set aside a few hours a week for exercise. Could you put this cake aside for me? He pushed his half-eaten salad aside and left. He stepped aside to let Katherine go in first. Mark drew me aside and explained the problem. He brushed aside criticisms of his performance. Leaving aside the heat, we really enjoyed our holiday. You must put aside your pride and call her. Cast aside your fears. Leaving aside for a moment the question of expense, what would your view be of the suggested changes?· The former health secretary brushed aside talk of a demotion by referring to himself as the new Minister for Majorism.· All the assurances that the treaty would not inaugurate an arms race or cost the United States anything were brushed aside.· Centre John Devereux converted, with giant prop Mark Jones then brushing aside two tackles to crash over for the second try.· Quoting again from Golf in the Kingdom: Many thoughts that arise as you are playing must be brushed aside.· Emanuel Shinwell's rhetoric, and the arguments which Crosland himself had developed in his writing, could not be brushed aside.· And when a problem can not be brushed aside, then a scapegoat must be found.· She was brushing aside her own contribution, saying it was one thing to be seen but another to do something positive.· But he brushed aside charges that government overspending, corruption and its seizure of farms are to blame.
· We should now cast aside all the political rhetoric of the campaign.· It is too much to expect musicians to deliberately cast aside the fringe benefits of success.· Every impediment to flight was cast aside.· Everything else was cast aside, beginning with even elementary care over arrangements to get there on the night.· University officials have displayed no sense of moral obligation toward a female student cast aside in the rush to pander to Phillips.· That is my point: you have cast aside the probability of future happiness on a whim.· Yet the problems are not of such proportions that hope has been cast aside.
· The gate handle clicked sharply and she drew aside the lace curtain.· As they had need, they drew aside to let ore wagons pass with their loads of concentrate and matte.· A little fold of the veil can be drawn aside to disclose his mood at that time.· The sedan chair was set down in a space of its own, and the curtains drawn aside.· In addition to addressing the crowds as he journeyed through Galilee and around Jerusalem, he drew aside to be with his closest associates.
· On the day of the wedding, just for a short while, all strife was laid aside.· By then, he supposed, he would have enough laid aside to begin his own business.· They must also lay aside their personal feelings.· He could afford to lay aside his anger against the Trojans.· There were of course occasions when Franz's great sword was laid aside, other instruments being required for the administration of justice.· A few weeks later I laid aside my steak knife for good.· Big sentences about Britain's place in the world have been laid aside.· I clambered on to the wheelbarrow, to pray for a healing miracle, laying aside my glasses and hat.
· Leave aside, for the moment, the question of whether it was justified in principle.· The panel also left aside what Sen.· Let's leave aside whether the conclusions of this study are a pile of rubbish.· However, leaving aside the intolerable heat, there was no doubt that New York was a really amazing place.· The Opposition have no quarrel with the principle of disposal, leaving aside the financial implications.· Religious activities are just as poorly represented, leaving aside the possible temples already described.· Now, leaving aside the case where there were different organic compositions of capital, we can see what happens.
· It moved aside the earth and found the petrified wood that was the heart in the forest.· Junior moved aside to reveal what the third guy was also covering.· As I passed the ladies I noticed that the beer crates stashed in front of the Fire Exit had been moved aside.· Move aside the aircraft ... this weird looking craft is ready for take off.· The picnic hamper had been stacked quietly and moved aside.· He went to his knees, and the men behind him moved aside.· Yet Crilly moves aside and introduces me.
· After 40 days she is encouraged to put aside her black clothes, but she received positive family support.· Certainly, one ought to put aside for retirement more than Social Security.· After that there were cheques to be attended to and put aside to await Silas's signature.· Listening means putting aside feelings and biases to really hear what is being said.· Downstairs again she investigated the stove, then unpacked her luggage and put aside things that had to be taken upstairs.· Arizona Republicans put aside their political differences and intraparty squabbling Saturday to nominate delegates to their upcoming national convention.· I found myself mentally putting aside half the afternoon for the task as I struggled over the incomprehensible jargon in my handbook.· You must have the money put aside to cover this necessary start-up investment.
· Any part with life left in it or potential for reconditioning is set aside for cleaning and re-sale.· Pour into prepared pan and set aside. 3.· Following the grand jury's indictment, however, the retrial was set aside pending the outcome of the federal case.· Season with salt and pepper and set aside.· Four aides-de-camp were appointed and apartments in the Tuileries were set aside for bedroom, study and play room.· Put eggs, still in their shells, in a bowl of warm water and set aside.· Blend together the arrowroot and one tablespoon of the orange juice and set aside.
· He stood aside to let it pass.· He stood aside and the great vehicle moved ponderously out of the garage.· He looked at Louis, who stood aside watching Jambo out of wounded, soulful eyes.· They can't stand aside when confronted with evil and injustice.· Then he stood aside again, still conducting, urging her to move faster.· We stood aside on the trail and let them pass.
· He stepped aside and the auburn-haired girl strode forward into the empty road carrying the roses loosely in her arm.· Samuelson, like most conservatives, argues that the good news would get a lot better if government would mostly step aside.· She stepped aside into the doorway of the next room while Luch drifted out and down the stair.· I stepped aside from the other parents in case he wanted some help, but he barely gave me a glance.· He could step aside now without loss of face.· At the time, Gingrich said a speaker should step aside when questions about his ethics are being investigated by in Congress.· She would do it if she had to - Eric and Stephan stepped aside.· Not that the elder Mr Newhouse has any imminent plans to step aside.
· But these objections were swept aside.· But the scientific doubts were swept aside amid pleas from anxious patients.· John Bryant, a congressman and the preferred party candidate, was swept aside.· Yet the past may not be so easily swept aside.· But simplistic claims have to be swept aside.· Yet the world champion is so unpredictably gifted that one on-song display could easily enable her to sweep aside the opposition.· He made himself the centre for information during the Red Raids that followed, brutal nights when civil liberties were swept aside.· A small holding force of Empire troops was swept aside and the Orc army descended into the plains of Averland.
· All reached for Holly's ear and all were turned aside.· That it turned aside from the traditional teaching of scholasticism and theology is certain.· The traveller can always stop or turn aside.· Before long he'd had to turn aside several times.· Immediately after, he turned aside to a doorway and vomited.· I turn aside and bite off food for which I have no appetite.· This time it did not turn aside.· Terrible clouds, capable of stripping men to the bone, were turned aside by magical winds.
· He steadied himself self-consciously, waving aside any further help.
PHRASES FROM THE ENTRYPHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES► leave something aside/to one side► push something ↔ aside
1kept to be used later: - Aside from coal, copper is the state's largest natural resource.
- Aside from helpful tips, the book also contains a guide to the city's restaurants.
- Peter joking apart have the tories done themselves any good this week?
I’ve been setting aside a few pounds each week. One of the rooms was set aside for a yoga class. Try to set aside a few hours a week for exercise. Could you put this cake aside for me?2moved to one side or away from you: He pushed his half-eaten salad aside and left. He stepped aside to let Katherine go in first. Mark drew me aside and explained the problem. She swept her thick hair aside.3left to be considered or dealt with later, or not considered and dealt with at all: He brushed aside criticisms of his performance. Leaving aside the heat, we really enjoyed our holiday. You must put aside your pride and call her.4[only after noun] used to show that something you have just said is not as important as what you are going to say next: These problems aside, we think the plan should go ahead.5aside from somebody/something especially American English a)except for SYN apart from: Aside from Durang’s performance, the actors are ordinary. b)in addition to: In the poetry competition, aside from Hass, are four other entrants.aside1 adverbaside2 noun
asideaside2 noun [countable] EXAMPLES FROM OTHER DICTIONARIES
- He noted as an aside that Mrs. Singer was also a member.
- As an aside, if the bad-tasting red disks are strongly reinforced, avoiding pain can become more important than seeking pleasure.
- Both stories are marvelously told with learned asides that Otto is so good at.
- They have the character of asides.
- What were usually asides, about life, religion, art, politics, had come to dominate the story.
THESAURUS
something that you say or write in order to give your opinion: · Does anyone have any comments?· Readers are invited to send in their comments and suggestions.
something that you say: · Just ignore them if they start making rude remarks.· I’m not sure what he meant by that last remark.
something that someone mentions about a subject in a discussion, argument, article etc: · That’s an interesting point, Steve.· He raises (=mentions) a number of important points in his paper.
a comment in which you say what you think or have noticed about something: · Karl Marx made the observation that history repeats itself first as tragedy, second as farce.
a comment made in a low voice, that you intend only certain people to hear: · ‘Is that true?’ she whispered in an aside to Don.
a clever and amusing comment: · She knew she should reply with some light-hearted quip.
informal a comment you make to annoy or criticize someone: · I’m tired of her little digs at me.
a comment intended to make someone angry or upset: · The fans made racist taunts throughout the game.
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COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES Cast aside your fears. Leaving aside for a moment the question of expense, what would your view be of the suggested changes?
Cast aside your fears. Leaving aside for a moment the question of expense, what would your view be of the suggested changes?PHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES► leave something aside/to one side► push something ↔ aside
1words spoken by an actor to the people watching a play, that the other characters in the play do not hear2a remark made in a low voice that you only intend particular people to hear- Peter joking apart have the tories done themselves any good this week?
► see thesaurus at comment3a remark or story that is not part of the main subject of a speech:
I should add, as an aside, that the younger the child, the faster they learn.