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单词 asides
释义

aside

1 of 3

adverb

ə-ˈsīd How to pronounce aside (audio)
1
: to or toward the side
stepped aside
2
: away from others or into privacy
pulled him aside
3
: out of the way especially for future use : away
putting aside savings
4
: away from one's thought or consideration
All kidding aside, we really need to get busy.

aside

2 of 3

noun

1
: an utterance not meant to be heard by someone
especially : an actor's speech heard by the audience but supposedly not by other characters
2
: a comment or discussion that does not relate directly to the main subject being discussed : digression
He frequently interrupted his narrative with amusing asides.

aside

3 of 3

preposition

obsolete
: beyond, past

Synonyms

Noun

  • digression
  • divagation
  • excursion
  • tangent
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Example Sentences

Adverb He stepped aside and let her pass. He threw his coat aside. She laid the book aside. He elbowed people aside as he moved through the crowd. He took her aside to speak to her privately. Someone grabbed him and pulled him aside. Noun She made a joke about the food in a muttered aside to her husband. The book includes several lengthy asides about the personal lives of scientists involved in the project. In his speech he mentioned her contributions almost as an aside, despite the fact that she was the one who came up with the idea originally. See More
Recent Examples on the Web
Adverb
Barks, whines, and growls aside, dogs mostly talk with us through actions. Alexandra Horowitz, The Atlantic, 16 Sep. 2022 Byju Raveendran, the company’s founder and chief executive, has brushed aside this year’s poor performance as an accounting technicality and claims his 71 investors aren’t worried: Many of them are sitting on paper gains of 50 to one-hundred fold. Megha Mandavia, WSJ, 16 Sep. 2022 Brushing aside Roddick like a poorly inflated tennis ball, Federer became the first man to win Wimbledon and the U.S. Open for three consecutive years. Bruce Jenkins, San Francisco Chronicle, 16 Sep. 2022 The special master is supposed to set aside and evaluate any materials that might be protected from the investigation by claims of attorney-client or executive privilege. Sarah D. Wire, Los Angeles Times, 16 Sep. 2022 But as expected, federal district and appellate courts quickly swept aside the primary provisions of the law, including statutes that penalize digital platforms for removing certain political speech, as violations of companies’ free-speech rights. Jacob Carpenter, Fortune, 15 Sep. 2022 Caught in a battle his side is losing, a young soldier named Heinrich musters his courage, tosses his spent rifle aside, and charges heroically at the enemy with a shovel. John Defore, The Hollywood Reporter, 15 Sep. 2022 Convenient location aside, the mental health professionals at your college specifically work with college-aged students. Kirsten Nunez, SELF, 15 Sep. 2022 This exploration of the mundane evil of innovation for its own sake is worth putting the outside world aside, however briefly. Alex Galbraith, EW.com, 14 Sep. 2022
Noun
As an aside, when a professional baseball player suffers a hand injury -- unless he was hit by a pitch or breaks a wrist diving for a ball -- all official explanations should be taken with a grain of salt. Paul Hoynes, cleveland, 3 Sep. 2022 As an aside, check cancellation fees probably aren’t worth the trouble of going through the process. Annie Lane, oregonlive, 15 Aug. 2022 As an aside, check cancellation fees probably aren’t worth the trouble of going through the process. Annie Lane, cleveland, 15 Aug. 2022 As an aside, some pundits are going around claiming that self-driving cars will be uncrashable, which is pure nonsense and an outrageous and wrongheaded thing to say, see my coverage at the link here. Lance Eliot, Forbes, 1 Aug. 2022 As an aside, most companies work against the interests of women in one way or another. Roxane Gay, New York Times, 7 July 2022 And as an aside, Javon and David Castañeda became very good friends. Milan Polk, Men's Health, 24 June 2022 She was first mentioned briefly, almost as an aside, in an opening scene that took place in the narrator’s place of work. Oliver Munday, The Atlantic, 21 June 2022 As an aside, not everyone agrees that digital natives are somehow rejiggered in terms of their mental processes about the world. Lance Eliot, Forbes, 12 June 2022 See More

Word History

Etymology

Adverb

see side entry 1

Noun

see side entry 1

Preposition

see side entry 1

First Known Use

Adverb

14th century, in the meaning defined at sense 1

Noun

circa 1751, in the meaning defined at sense 1

Preposition

1592, in the meaning defined above

Kids Definition

aside

adverb

ə-ˈsīd How to pronounce aside (audio)
1
: to or toward the side
stepped aside
2
: out of the way especially for future use
She's putting money aside for a car.
3
: not included or considered
All kidding aside, we think you did a great job.

asides

noun

plural of aside
as in tangents
a departure from the subject under consideration as an aside, something similar happened to me years ago

Synonyms & Similar Words

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  • tangents
  • digressions
  • parentheses
  • divagations
  • excursions
  • excursus
  • circumlocutions
  • ramblings
  • excursuses
  • prolixities
  • circularities
  • verbosities
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