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SIDELING

Definition: SIDELING

SIDELING

Adjective

1. Inclining to one side; directed toward one side; sloping; inclined; as, sideling ground.

Adverb

1. Sidelong; on the side; laterally; also, obliquely; askew.

Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
 

Date "SIDELING" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1321. (references)

 

Synonyms within Context: SIDELING

ContextSynonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus).

Deviation

Obliquely, sideling, like the move of the knight on a chessboard.

Laterality

Adjective: lateral, sidelong; collateral; parietal, flanking, skirting; flanked; sideling.

Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus.

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Frequency of Internet Keywords: SIDELING

The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com.
 
ExpressionFrequency
per Day

hill sideling

4

porter sideling pa

3
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Modern Translation: SIDELING

Language Translations for "SIDELING"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.

Albanian

  

i pjerrët (arduous, bevel, declivitous, declivous, high pitched, hilly, inclined, leaning, oblique, reclinate, skew, slant, slanting, slantwise, sloping). (various references)

   

Bulgarian 

  

който се движи в страни. (various references)

   

Czech

  

nastranu. (various references)

   

Hungarian

  

ferde (aslope, awry, beveled, bias, biased, biassed, cant, cock eyed, cockeyed, cross, leaning, oblique, out of the straigh, perverse, sidelong, skew, slant, slanting, splay). (various references)

   

Pig Latin

  

idelingsay.(various references)

   

Portuguese

  

oblíquo (aslant, aslope, asquint, awry, canted, oblique, sidelong, skew, slanting, sloping, wry), de lado (aside, askance, askant, askew, bias, side, sidelong, sideward, sidewards, sideways, up), de esguelha (askew, sidelong, slantwise, wry). (various references)

   

Russian 

  

наклонный (downhill, inclined, oblique, prone, reclinate, slant, slanting, slantwise, sloped, sloping). (various references)

   

Serbo-Croatian

  

ukoso, postrance (sideways), nagnut (bevel, declivous, inclined, leaning, rakish, slanting, sloping), bočni (aisle, lateral, overside, side, sidelong, sideways). (various references)

   

Vietnamese 

  

xiên về một bên không thẳng thắn, nghiêng (askew, asquint, over, skew, slant, slanting, slantways, slantwise, slopewise, sloping), lén lút (backstairs, hedge, hole-and-corner, rose, sneaking, sneaky, stealth, stealthy, surreptitious). (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Misspellings: SIDELING

Misspellings

"SIDELING" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Fidelina, Sadolin, sibeling, Siegling. (additional references)

Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

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Anagrams: SIDELING

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "d-e-g-i-i-l-n-s"

-1 letter: dingies, dingles, eliding, engilds, lindies, sidling, singled, sliding.

-2 letters: deigns, design, dieing, dinges, dingle, engild, glides, idling, indies, ingles, inside, isling, siding, signed, sileni, singed, single.

-3 letters: deign, deils, delis, dines, dinge, dings, gelds, gelid, genii, gilds, gleds, glens, glide, idles, indie, ingle, isled, lends, lenis, liens, lined, lines, lings, nides, nisei, segni.

 Words containing the letters "d-e-g-i-i-l-n-s"
 

+1 letter: delisting, dieseling, gliadines, shielding.

 

+2 letters: anglicised, despoiling, dieselings, diligences, dishelming, dispelling, evildoings, guidelines, idealising, melodising, misaligned, misdealing, misleading, ridgelines, ridgelings, sidelining, signalised, signalized, soldiering.

 

+3 letters: demolishing, depolishing, desilvering, dieselizing, disboweling, disheveling, dispeopling, displeasing, dissembling, gadolinites, ganglioside, girlfriends, grainfields, lipreadings, misfielding, mispleading, soldierings.

 

+4 letters: bowdlerising, deglutitions, deliquescing, desalinating, desalinizing, despairingly, diagonalizes, digressional, disbelieving, disbowelling, discerningly, disentailing, disentitling, dishevelling, disrelishing, gangliosides, indigenously, indigestible, laryngitides, misleadingly, redisplaying, redissolving, redistilling, sideslipping, singularized, slenderizing, spellbinding, undigestible.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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INDEX

1. Definition
2. Expressions: Internet
3. Translations: Modern
4. Derivations
5. Anagrams
6. Bibliography


  

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