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Side By Side

Definition: Side By Side

Side By Side

Adjective

1. Nearest in space or position; immediately adjoining without intervening space; "had adjacent rooms"; "in the next room"; "the person sitting next to me"; "our rooms were side by side".

2. Closely related or associated; "a city in which communism and democracy had to live side by side".

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

 

Synonyms: Side By Side

Synonyms: adjacent (adj), next (adj), side by side(p) (adj). (additional references)
Synonym by domain: side-to-side (transportation).

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Synonyms within Context: Side By Side

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

Accompaniment

Adverb: with, withal; together with, along with, in company with; hand in hand, side by side; cheek by jowl, cheek by jole; arm in arm; therewith, herewith; and; (addition).

Comparison

Verb: compare to, compare with; collate, confront; place side by side, juxtapose; (near); set against one another, pit against one another; contrast, balance.

Laterality

Adverb: sideways, sidelong; broadside on; on one side, abreast, alongside, beside, aside; by the side of; side by side; cheek by jowl; (near); to windward, to leeward; laterally; Adjective: right and left; on her beam ends.

Nearness

Within hearing, within earshot; within an ace of; but a step, not far from, at no great distance; on the verge of, on the brink of, on the skirts of; in the environs; Noun: at one's door, at one's feet, at one's elbow, at one's finger's end, at one's side; on the tip of one's tongue; under one's nose; within a stone's throw; Noun: in sight of, in presence of; at close quarters; cheek by jole, cheek by jowl; beside, alongside, side by side, tete-a-tete; in juxtaposition; (touching); yardarm to yardarm, at the heels of; on the confines of, at the threshold, bordering upon, verging to; in the way.

Ring near, draw near; converge; crowd; place side by side; adVerb:

Party

Adverb: hand in hand, side by side, shoulder to shoulder, en masse,in the same boat.

Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus.

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Crosswords: Side By Side

English words defined with "side by side": aboard, Accosted, alongside, appose, appositionBiscutate, Board and boardChain coral, Cherd packing, collateral, Collaterally, Contline, corduroy, Corduroy roadDouble-bank, Double-banked, double-barreled, double-barrelled, Duplex pumping engineFast and loose pulleys, Fiddle block, File marchingJugata, juxtapose, juxtaposed, juxtapositionNeck and neck, NotchingParallel columns, Pavement teeth, Pedestal coilrow, row housescrum, scrummage, sheath pile, sheet pile, sheet piling, shoulder-to-shoulder, synapsistown houseVine sawfly. (references)
Specialty definitions using "side by side": 2 lane road3 lane roadabeam replenishmentbit sliceCHEEK BY JOWL, continuous tooth double-helical gear, CONTRA DANCEDobson support system, Dosco miner, double Babcock plan, double headings, double-helical gear, duplex compressorFORM BOARD, four-lane two-way carriagewayhardness plates, herringbone gearimmunoglobulin foldkotelon nastojen määrämat pack, matched board, multi-speed driveportable parallel duplex mine cableroad with 2 lanes, road with 3 lanes, road with 4 lanes, road with four lanes, road with three lanes, road with two lanes, Russia braidseat row, side-by-side paragraphs, soutache braid, SPLICER OPERATOR, step by step variable gear, step-by-step variable speed transmission, step-by-step variable transmission, stepped drivethree-lane road, three-throw ram pump, triplex pump, twin-helical gear, twisted-loop splice, two intakes, two-lane roadveneer sheet, veneer splicer. (references)

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Modern Usage: Side By Side

DomainUsage

Screenplays

Henceforth, we must be strangers living side by side but my heart will be ever faithful to thee (Anne of Green Gables; writing credit: Lucy Maud Montgomery; Kevin Sullivan)

Lyrics

Side by side we wait the might of the darkest of them all. (The battle of evermore; performing artist: Led Zeppelin)

Walkin' side by side (The weight; performing artist: Shannon)

Movie/TV Titles

Side by Side (1992)

Max Bygraves Side by Side (1982)

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

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Commercial Usage: Side By Side

DomainTitle

Books

  • Side by Side Book 1 (3rd Edition) (reference)

  • The Yellow House: Vincent Van Gogh & Paul Gauguin Side by Side (reference)

    (more book examples)

  

Theater & Movies

  

Music

  

High Tech

  

Consumer Goods

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

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Image Slideshow: Side By Side

Illustrations:
Side By Side

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Photo Album: Side By Side

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Spanning the southern tip of the Florida Peninsula and most of Florida Bay, Everglades National Park is the only subtropical preserve in North America. It is the only place in the world where alligators and crocodiles exist side by side. Credit: NASA.

Ironwood Forest National Monument with two Saguaro Cacti standing side by side. The backgound is the Ragged Top Mountain, described as the biological and geological crown jewel of the Silver Bell Mountains. Credit: Chris Tincher.

Photographed at the Yokosuka Naval Base, Japan, circa February 1954, with USS Yorktown (CVA-10) at right and eleven LCM landing craft in the foreground. Grumman AF "Guardian" anti-submarine aircraft are parked on Sicily's flight deck. Douglas AD "Skyraider" attack planes are parked aft on Yorktown's flight deck. The original caption, released by Commander Naval Forces Far East on 18 February 1954, reads: "Twins, Almost -- The Essex-class carrier USS Yorktown (CVA-10) and her smaller counterpart, the escort carrier USS Sicily (CVE-118), rest side by side during a recent in-port maintenance period at the Yokosuka, Japan, Naval Base". Credit: NAVY.

Through the glasses could be seen the shipwrecked couple standing side by side on the strand. Credit: Library of Congress.

Two Eskimo girls standing side by side. Credit: Library of Congress.

Three Eskimo children seated side by side. Credit: Library of Congress.

Production. Parachute making. First-generation Americans whose parents represent Italy, Greece, and England, these three girls work side by side at the punching machine in an Eastern parachute factory. Pioneer Parachute Company, Manchester, Connecticut. Credit: Library of Congress.

Eleven year old boy and his grandmother, migratory, pick hops side by side. Oregon, Polk County, near Independence. See general caption number 45. Credit: Library of Congress.

Side by side - Britannia! Britain's Day Dec. 7th 1918 / James Montgomery Flagg 1918 ; American Lithographic Co. N.Y. Credit: Library of Congress.

Men standing side by side with rifles in front of a building, one man is raising a rifle toward man in front of crowd. Credit: Library of Congress.

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

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Familiar Quotations: Side By Side

AuthorQuotation

Logan Pearsall Smith

Fine writers should split hairs together, and sit side by side, like friendly apes, to pick the fleas from each other's fur.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

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Historic Usage: Side By Side

AuthorDateQuotation

Communist Manifesto

1848

In those countries which are but little developed, industrially and commercially, these two classes still vegetate side by side with the rising bourgeoisie. (reference)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

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Use in Literature: Side By Side

TitleAuthorQuote

Les Miserables

Hugo, Victor

Close by the rights of Man, side by side with them, at least, are the rights of the Soul

Grapes of Wrath

Steinbeck, John

Lined up side by side.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

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Non-Fiction Usage: Side By Side

SubjectTopicQuote

Business

As allies in NATO, the United States and Germany work side by side to maintain peace and freedom. (references)

Civil Liberties

China

In certain regions, government supervision of religious activity was minimal, and registered and unregistered churches were treated similarly by authorities, existing openly side by side. (references)

Economic History

Maldives

Unique to Maldives, modern and traditional schools exist side by side. (references)

Denmark

Danish and U.S. troops serve side by side in Bosnia in an effort to bring peace to the region. (references)

Minorities

Ethiopia

In Addis Ababa, persons of different faiths often live side by side. (references)

Trade

Luxembourg

In addition, national requirements exist side by side with EU-wide requirements. (references)

Worker Rights

Zimbabwe

The Labor Relations Amendment Act (LRAA) specifies that workers may establish independent worker committees, which exist side by side with unions in each plant. (references)

Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits.

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Speeches: Side By Side

SpeakerTermPhrase(s)

Lyndon B. Johnson

1963-1969Surely they can work and eat and travel side by side in their own country.

Bill Clinton

1993-2001In the Dominican Republic, Hillary helped to rededicate a hospital that had been rebuilt by Dominicans and Americans, working side by side.

George W. Bush

2001-2005America stands committed to an independent and democratic Palestine, living side by side with Israel in peace and security.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

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Expressions: Side By Side

Expressions using "side by side": hold side by side place side by side. Additional references.

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

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Frequency of Internet Keywords: Side By Side

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

side by side refrigerator

142

side by side

134

side by side shotgun

67

side by side by sondheim

14

whirlpool side by side refrigerator

10

side by side fridge

4
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Modern Translation: Side By Side

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

Albanian

  

krahpërkrah (cheek by jowl). (various references)

   

Arabic 

  

‏جنبا الى جنب. (various references)

   

Bulgarian 

  

задружно, един до друг (abreast, alongside, cheek by jowl, together). (various references)

   

Chinese 

  

並肩 (abreast, alongside, shoulder to shoulder), 並' (abreast). (various references)

   

Czech

  

bok po boku (abreast, shoulder to shoulder). (various references)

   

Finnish

  

sivutusten, vieretysten, vierekkäin (next to each other), rinnakkain (abreast). (various references)

   

French

  

côté côté, bord bord. (various references)

   

German

  

nebeneinander (abreast, at the same time, juxtaposition, neck and neck, simultaneously). (various references)

   

Greek 

  

πλάι πλάι (shoulder to shoulder). (various references)

   

Hebrew 

  

ז" לי" ז", ז" בצ" ז" (abreast), צ" בצ". (various references)

   

Hungarian

  

egymás mellett (abreast, next to each other). (various references)

   

Indonesian

  

gandeng (arm in arm, coupled), berjajaran (in a rows), berdekat-dekatan, berdamping (contiguous). (various references)

   

Italian

  

fianco a fianco (abreast). (various references)

   

Japanese Kanji 

  

平行 (abreast, at the same time, concurrent, occurring together, parallel, parallelism), 並行 (abreast, at the same time, concurrent, occurring together, parallel, parallelism). (various references)

   

Japanese Katakana 

  

へい"う (abreast, at the same time, balance, closing a school, concurrent, equalization, equilibrium, even scale, occurring together, offering, parallel, parallelism, shut mouth, tribute). (various references)

   

Manx

  

lhiattee ry lhiattee, dy lieragh (order), cosh ry cholbey (cheek by jowl), cheu ry heu (adjacent, apposition, broadside on). (various references)

   

Pig Latin

  

idesay ybay idesay.(various references)

   

Portuguese

  

lado a lado (abreast). (various references)

   

Romanian

  

unul lângã altul, alãturat (adjacent, adjoining, annexed, enclosed, herewith). (various references)

   

Russian 

  

рядом (adjacently, alongside, at one's elbow, cheek by jowl, interproximally, near by, nearby, next door, nigh, round the corner, side-by-side), бок о бок (alongside, cheek by jowl). (various references)

   

Serbo-Croatian

  

uporedo (comparatively, parallel, time: at the same time), ruku pod ruku (arm in arm). (various references)

   

Spanish

  

juntos (all together, altogether, together). (various references)

   

Swedish

  

utmed varandra, jämsides med. (various references)

   

Turkish

  

yan yana (abreast, adjoining, alongside, at close quarters, cheek by jowl). (various references)

   

Ukrainian

  

поруч (abreast, adjacently, against, alongside, anear, by, close, hard by, nigh, unto), пліч-о-пліч (alongside, shoulder to shoulder). (various references)

   

Welsh

  

cyfystlys. (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Anagrams: Side By Side

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "b-d-d-e-e-i-i-s-s-y"

-2 letters: bedsides.

-3 letters: bedside, besides, biddies.

-4 letters: beside, debyes, didies, dieses, diesis, dissed, eddies, ibises, seised, yessed.

-5 letters: biddy, bided, bides, bises, byssi, debye, deeds, deedy, didie, issei, seeds, seedy, seise, sided, sides, yeses.

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

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INDEX

1. Definition
2. Synonyms
3. Crosswords
4. Usage: Modern
5. Usage: Commercial
6. Images: Slideshow
7. Images: Photo Album
8. Quotations: Familiar
9. Quotations: Historic
10. Quotations: Fiction
11. Quotations: Non-fiction
12. Quotations: Speeches
13. Expressions
14. Expressions: Internet
15. Translations: Modern
16. Anagrams
17. Bibliography


  

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