--- title: S — The English dictionary with trees and pragmatics · page 44 description: The 2316 words of the English dictionary under S, every meaning for a pupil and every example with its dependency tree and pragmatics. --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/english/S/page/44/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [dictionaries](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/) / [English dictionary](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/english/) / S # S — The English dictionary · page 44 [A](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/english/A/) · [B](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/english/B/) · [C](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/english/C/) · [D](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/english/D/) · 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*Everyday, meaning 1:* A large black gibbon (a kind of small ape) that lives in the rainforests of Malaysia, Thailand and Sumatra in Indonesia, famous for its loud calls made with a big throat sac.[↗](../../siamang/#m1 "tree and pragmatics") *Example:* The siamang is the biggest gibbon.[↗](../../siamang/#x1 "tree and pragmatics") · A siamang's throat swells up like a balloon when it calls.[↗](../../siamang/#x2 "tree and pragmatics") · Siamangs swing from branch to branch with their long arms.[↗](../../siamang/#x3 "tree and pragmatics") · Siamang pairs sing together every morning.[↗](../../siamang/#x4 "tree and pragmatics") · Siamangs live in the rainforests of Sumatra.[↗](../../siamang/#x5 "tree and pragmatics") · Siamangs are apes, so they have no tail.[↗](../../siamang/#x6 "tree and pragmatics") **sib** — *Everyday, meaning 1:* (informal, slang) «Sib» is a short form of «sibling», a brother or sister.[↗](../../sib/#m1 "tree and pragmatics") *Everyday, meaning 2:* (old) Sib can mean a relative.[↗](../../sib/#m2 "tree and pragmatics") *Example:* (informal) My sibs are coming over later.[↗](../../sib/#x1 "tree and pragmatics") · (informal) I've got two sibs and a dog.[↗](../../sib/#x2 "tree and pragmatics") · (informal) Me and my sib share a room.[↗](../../sib/#x3 "tree and pragmatics") · (informal) The sibs are fighting again.[↗](../../sib/#x4 "tree and pragmatics") **siberian** — *Everyday, meaning 1:* Siberian means from or about Siberia, the huge, very cold northern part of Russia that stretches from the Ural Mountains to the Pacific Ocean.[↗](../../siberian/#m1 "tree and pragmatics") *Everyday, meaning 2:* Siberian is also used in the names of animals and plants from there.[↗](../../siberian/#m2 "tree and pragmatics") *e.g.* Siberian tiger, Siberian husky.[↗](../../siberian/#m2 "tree and pragmatics") *Everyday, meaning 3:* (informal) Siberian can mean extremely cold: a Siberian wind.[↗](../../siberian/#m3 "tree and pragmatics") *Example:* The Siberian tiger is the biggest cat in the world.[↗](../../siberian/#x1 "tree and pragmatics") · Our neighbours have a Siberian husky with blue eyes.[↗](../../siberian/#x2 "tree and pragmatics") · Siberian winters can reach minus fifty degrees.[↗](../../siberian/#x3 "tree and pragmatics") · Lake Baikal is in southern Siberia.[↗](../../siberian/#x4 "tree and pragmatics") · A Siberian wind made the playground freezing.[↗](../../siberian/#x5 "tree and pragmatics") · Siberian forests are full of pine and birch trees.[↗](../../siberian/#x6 "tree and pragmatics") **sibilant** — *In Jewish tradition, meaning 1:* Making a hissing sound like "s" or "sh".[↗](../../sibilant/#m1 "tree and pragmatics") *Example:* Shin is sibilant, and Aleph is the Mediator and as it were a friend placed between them.[↗](../../sibilant/#x1 "tree and pragmatics") (Sefer Yetzirah, Westcott 1893)[↗](../../sibilant/#x1 "tree and pragmatics") · Water is silent, Fire is sibilant, and Air derived fron the Spirit is as the tongue of a balance standing between these contraries which are in equilibrium, reconciling and mediating between them.[↗](../../sibilant/#x2 "tree and pragmatics") (Sefer Yetzirah, Westcott 1893)[↗](../../sibilant/#x2 "tree and pragmatics") · Water is silent, Fire is sibilant, and Air derived from the Spirit is as the tongue of a balance standing between these contraries which are in equilibrium, reconciling and mediating between them.[↗](../../sibilant/#x3 "tree and pragmatics") (Sefer Yetzirah, Westcott 1893)[↗](../../sibilant/#x3 "tree and pragmatics") **sibling** — *Everyday, meaning 1:* A sibling is a brother or sister.[↗](../../sibling/#m1 "tree and pragmatics") *Example:* I have two siblings: a brother and a sister.[↗](../../sibling/#x1 "tree and pragmatics") · Do you have any siblings?[↗](../../sibling/#x2 "tree and pragmatics") · Sibling rivalry is normal, but be kind.[↗](../../sibling/#x3 "tree and pragmatics") · My younger sibling started school this year.[↗](../../sibling/#x4 "tree and pragmatics") · An only child has no siblings.[↗](../../sibling/#x5 "tree and pragmatics") · Twins are siblings born on the same day.[↗](../../sibling/#x6 "tree and pragmatics") · Siblings often share bedrooms.[↗](../../sibling/#x7 "tree and pragmatics") · If there are 4 children in a family, each child has 3 siblings.[↗](../../sibling/#x8 "tree and pragmatics") **sibyl** — *Everyday, meaning 1:* A sibyl is, in old stories, a woman who was believed to be able to foretell the future.[↗](../../sibyl/#m1 "tree and pragmatics") (old use).[↗](../../sibyl/#m1 "tree and pragmatics") *Example:* After the books were sold, the Sibyl vanished and was seen no more.[↗](../../sibyl/#x1 "tree and pragmatics") · The sibyl warned the king of the coming storm.[↗](../../sibyl/#x2 "tree and pragmatics") **sibylline** — *Everyday, meaning 1:* Sibylline means of or like a sibyl; mysterious and hard to understand, as if giving a hidden prophecy.[↗](../../sibylline/#m1 "tree and pragmatics") (rare).[↗](../../sibylline/#m1 "tree and pragmatics") *Example:* These oracles were collected to replace the Sibylline books.[↗](../../sibylline/#x1 "tree and pragmatics") · The Sibylline oracles were kept in gilt chests.[↗](../../sibylline/#x2 "tree and pragmatics") · Her answer was sibylline and puzzling.[↗](../../sibylline/#x3 "tree and pragmatics") **sick** — *Everyday, meaning 1:* Sick means ill, not healthy.[↗](../../sick/#m1 "tree and pragmatics") *Everyday, meaning 2:* To be sick (UK) or to feel sick can mean to throw up food from your stomach (to vomit).[↗](../../sick/#m2 "tree and pragmatics") *Everyday, meaning 3:* Sick of something means bored or annoyed with it because there has been too much of it.[↗](../../sick/#m3 "tree and pragmatics") *Everyday, meaning 4:* In slang, «sick» can mean very cool or great.[↗](../../sick/#m4 "tree and pragmatics") *Example:* I stayed home from school because I was sick.[↗](../../sick/#x1 "tree and pragmatics") · I feel sick after eating too many sweets.[↗](../../sick/#x2 "tree and pragmatics") · The dog was sick on the carpet.[↗](../../sick/#x3 "tree and pragmatics") · Wash your hands so you don't get sick.[↗](../../sick/#x4 "tree and pragmatics") · Some people get carsick on long trips.[↗](../../sick/#x5 "tree and pragmatics") · She was homesick at summer camp and missed her family.[↗](../../sick/#x6 "tree and pragmatics") · I'm sick of rain; I want to play outside\![↗](../../sick/#x7 "tree and pragmatics") · Look after a sick friend by bringing them a card.[↗](../../sick/#x8 "tree and pragmatics") · Sick and exhausted, he reached home.[↗](../../sick/#x9 "tree and pragmatics") · And it came to pass after these things, that one said to Joseph: 'Behold, thy father is sick.'[↗](../../sick/#x10 "tree and pragmatics") And he took with him his two sons, Manasseh and Ephraim.[↗](../../sick/#x10 "tree and pragmatics") (Torah GEN.48.1, JPS 1917)[↗](../../sick/#x10 "tree and pragmatics") · and of her that is sick with her impurity, and of them that have an issue, whether it be a man, or a woman; and of him that lieth with her that is unclean.[↗](../../sick/#x11 "tree and pragmatics") (Torah LEV.15.33, JPS 1917)[↗](../../sick/#x11 "tree and pragmatics") · In those days was Hezekiah sick unto death.[↗](../../sick/#x12 "tree and pragmatics") (Prophets 2KI.20.1, JPS 1917)[↗](../../sick/#x12 "tree and pragmatics") · At that time Abijah the son of Jeroboam fell sick.[↗](../../sick/#x13 "tree and pragmatics") (Prophets 1KI.14.1, JPS 1917)[↗](../../sick/#x13 "tree and pragmatics") · The whole head is sick, and the whole heart faint; (Prophets ISA.1.5, JPS 1917)[↗](../../sick/#x14 "tree and pragmatics") **sicken** — *Everyday, meaning 1:* To make someone feel shocked, disgusted or very upset, as if they might be sick.[↗](../../sicken/#m1 "tree and pragmatics") *Everyday, meaning 2:* To start to become ill.[↗](../../sicken/#m2 "tree and pragmatics") *Everyday, meaning 3:* «Sicken of» something (old-fashioned) — to become tired of it.[↗](../../sicken/#m3 "tree and pragmatics") *Example:* The cruelty to the dog sickened everyone who saw it.[↗](../../sicken/#x1 "tree and pragmatics") · The calf began to sicken and would not eat.[↗](../../sicken/#x2 "tree and pragmatics") · It sickens me when people drop litter in the park.[↗](../../sicken/#x3 "tree and pragmatics") · There was a sickening crash as the car hit the wall.[↗](../../sicken/#x4 "tree and pragmatics") · The smell of rotten eggs sickened us.[↗](../../sicken/#x5 "tree and pragmatics") · After a week of rain, we sickened of staying indoors.[↗](../../sicken/#x6 "tree and pragmatics") · We lost to a sickening goal in the last minute.[↗](../../sicken/#x7 "tree and pragmatics") · The sickening smell made him faint.[↗](../../sicken/#x8 "tree and pragmatics") **sickle** — *Everyday, meaning 1:* A farm tool with a short handle and a curved, C-shaped blade, used for cutting grass, grain or corn by hand.[↗](../../sickle/#m1 "tree and pragmatics") *Everyday, meaning 2:* Something shaped like this blade, such as a sickle moon (a thin crescent moon).[↗](../../sickle/#m2 "tree and pragmatics") *Example:* The farmer cut the wheat with a sickle.[↗](../../sickle/#x1 "tree and pragmatics") · A thin sickle moon hung in the evening sky.[↗](../../sickle/#x2 "tree and pragmatics") · The old flag showed a hammer and sickle.[↗](../../sickle/#x3 "tree and pragmatics") · In sickle cell disease, red blood cells are curved.[↗](../../sickle/#x4 "tree and pragmatics") · Be careful: the blade of a sickle is very sharp.[↗](../../sickle/#x5 "tree and pragmatics") · People harvested crops with sickles long before tractors.[↗](../../sickle/#x6 "tree and pragmatics") · Presently they passed through a field of corn ready for the sickle, and looking like a sea of gold as it waved to and fro in the breeze.[↗](../../sickle/#x7 "tree and pragmatics") · Seven weeks shalt thou number unto thee; from the time the sickle is first put to the standing corn shalt thou begin to number seven weeks.[↗](../../sickle/#x8 "tree and pragmatics") (Torah DEU.16.9, JPS 1917)[↗](../../sickle/#x8 "tree and pragmatics") · When thou comest into thy neighbour's standing corn, then thou mayest pluck ears with thy hand; but thou shalt not move a sickle unto thy neighbour's standing corn.[↗](../../sickle/#x9 "tree and pragmatics") (Torah DEU.23.25, JPS 1917)[↗](../../sickle/#x9 "tree and pragmatics") · Put ye in the sickle, for the harvest is ripe; come, tread ye, for the winepress is full, the vats overflow; for their wickedness is great.[↗](../../sickle/#x10 "tree and pragmatics") (Prophets JOL.4.13, JPS 1917)[↗](../../sickle/#x10 "tree and pragmatics") **sickly** — *Everyday, meaning 1:* Often ill, weak or not healthy.[↗](../../sickly/#m1 "tree and pragmatics") *Everyday, meaning 2:* Looking pale or unhealthy.[↗](../../sickly/#m2 "tree and pragmatics") *Everyday, meaning 3:* (of taste or smell) Too sweet in a way that makes you feel a bit sick.[↗](../../sickly/#m3 "tree and pragmatics") *Everyday, meaning 4:* (of colour or light) Pale and unpleasant, like a sickly yellow.[↗](../../sickly/#m4 "tree and pragmatics") *Everyday, meaning 5:* (of feelings) Too sweet or sentimental.[↗](../../sickly/#m5 "tree and pragmatics") *Example:* She was a sickly baby but grew into a strong girl.[↗](../../sickly/#x1 "tree and pragmatics") · The plant looked sickly because it had no sunlight.[↗](../../sickly/#x2 "tree and pragmatics") · The cake was sickly sweet with so much icing.[↗](../../sickly/#x3 "tree and pragmatics") · The room smelled of sickly perfume.[↗](../../sickly/#x4 "tree and pragmatics") · The walls were painted a sickly yellow.[↗](../../sickly/#x5 "tree and pragmatics") · He looked pale and sickly after the flu.[↗](../../sickly/#x6 "tree and pragmatics") · The film had a sickly happy ending.[↗](../../sickly/#x7 "tree and pragmatics") · Well; I will be the nurse of this poor, sickly boy.[↗](../../sickly/#x8 "tree and pragmatics") **sickness** — *Everyday, meaning 1:* Sickness is being ill or unwell.[↗](../../sickness/#m1 "tree and pragmatics") *Everyday, meaning 2:* A sickness is a particular illness or disease.[↗](../../sickness/#m2 "tree and pragmatics") *Everyday, meaning 3:* Sickness can mean feeling like you are going to vomit (throw up), as in travel sickness or seasickness.[↗](../../sickness/#m3 "tree and pragmatics") *Example:* He missed school because of sickness.[↗](../../sickness/#x1 "tree and pragmatics") · Washing your hands helps stop sickness from spreading.[↗](../../sickness/#x2 "tree and pragmatics") · I get car sickness on long, winding roads.[↗](../../sickness/#x3 "tree and pragmatics") · She took a pill for seasickness before the ferry trip.[↗](../../sickness/#x4 "tree and pragmatics") · Altitude sickness can happen high up in the mountains.[↗](../../sickness/#x5 "tree and pragmatics") · The farmer worried about a sickness among his cows.[↗](../../sickness/#x6 "tree and pragmatics") · A tummy sickness went round the whole class.[↗](../../sickness/#x7 "tree and pragmatics") · Our food gave out, and we suffered much from sickness on board.[↗](../../sickness/#x8 "tree and pragmatics") · Also every sickness, and every plague, which is not written in the book of this law, them will the LORD bring upon thee, until thou be destroyed.[↗](../../sickness/#x9 "tree and pragmatics") (Torah DEU.28.61, JPS 1917)[↗](../../sickness/#x9 "tree and pragmatics") · And ye shall serve the LORD your God, and He will bless thy bread, and thy water; and I will take sickness away from the midst of thee.[↗](../../sickness/#x10 "tree and pragmatics") (Torah EXO.23.25, JPS 1917)[↗](../../sickness/#x10 "tree and pragmatics") · then the LORD will make thy plagues wonderful, and the plagues of thy seed, even great plagues, and of long continuance, and sore sicknesses, and of long continuance.[↗](../../sickness/#x11 "tree and pragmatics") (Torah DEU.28.59, JPS 1917)[↗](../../sickness/#x11 "tree and pragmatics") · My soul refuseth to touch them; they are as the sickness of my flesh.[↗](../../sickness/#x12 "tree and pragmatics") (Writings JOB.6.7, JPS 1917)[↗](../../sickness/#x12 "tree and pragmatics") · All his days also he eateth in darkness, and he hath much vexation and sickness and wrath.[↗](../../sickness/#x13 "tree and pragmatics") (Writings ECC.5.16, JPS 1917)[↗](../../sickness/#x13 "tree and pragmatics") · My wound is grievous; but I said: 'This is but a sickness, and I must bear it.'[↗](../../sickness/#x14 "tree and pragmatics") (Prophets JER.10.19, JPS 1917)[↗](../../sickness/#x14 "tree and pragmatics") **side** — *Everyday, meaning 1:* A side is one of the straight lines that make a flat shape.[↗](../../side/#m1 "tree and pragmatics") A square has 4 sides.[↗](../../side/#m1 "tree and pragmatics") *Everyday, meaning 2:* A side is one of the flat faces of a solid, or a surface of a thing: both sides of the paper.[↗](../../side/#m2 "tree and pragmatics") *Everyday, meaning 3:* A side is the left or right part of something, or the edge: the side of the road.[↗](../../side/#m3 "tree and pragmatics") *Everyday, meaning 4:* A side is a team or group in a game or argument.[↗](../../side/#m4 "tree and pragmatics") *Everyday, meaning 5:* To side with someone is to support them.[↗](../../side/#m5 "tree and pragmatics") *Everyday, meaning 6:* A side (side dish) is extra food served with a meal: «a side of chips».[↗](../../side/#m6 "tree and pragmatics") *Everyday, meaning 7:* (casual) «On the side» means extra or secret: «a job on the side».[↗](../../side/#m7 "tree and pragmatics") *Everyday, meaning 8:* (casual, UK) «Side» can mean showing off: «no side to her» means she is not stuck-up.[↗](../../side/#m8 "tree and pragmatics") *Everyday, meaning 9:* (euphemism) «Side effect» means an unwanted result, often of a medicine.[↗](../../side/#m9 "tree and pragmatics") *Everyday, meaning 10:* (formal) «Edge», «flank», «lateral face» and «party» (in an argument) are stiff words for side.[↗](../../side/#m10 "tree and pragmatics") *Example:* A square has 4 equal sides.[↗](../../side/#x1 "tree and pragmatics") · Each side of the triangle is 5 cm.[↗](../../side/#x2 "tree and pragmatics") · There are 6 trees on each side of the road.[↗](../../side/#x3 "tree and pragmatics") · What is the perimeter of a square with side 7 m?[↗](../../side/#x4 "tree and pragmatics") · Write on both sides of the paper.[↗](../../side/#x5 "tree and pragmatics") · The two friends walked side by side.[↗](../../side/#x6 "tree and pragmatics") · Which side are you on?[↗](../../side/#x7 "tree and pragmatics") · A cube has 6 faces, sometimes called sides.[↗](../../side/#x8 "tree and pragmatics") · burger with a side of fries, 3 of us, how many sides then (casual)[↗](../../side/#x9 "tree and pragmatics") · Whose side are you on, you traitor?[↗](../../side/#x10 "tree and pragmatics") (rough)[↗](../../side/#x10 "tree and pragmatics") · Look on the bright side, it's only 2 more pages.[↗](../../side/#x11 "tree and pragmatics") · Each side of a regular hexagon measures 4 cm; compute the perimeter thereof.[↗](../../side/#x12 "tree and pragmatics") (formal exam)[↗](../../side/#x12 "tree and pragmatics") · There are two sides to every question.[↗](../../side/#x13 "tree and pragmatics") · And for the east side eastward fifty cubits.[↗](../../side/#x14 "tree and pragmatics") (Torah EXO.38.13, JPS 1917)[↗](../../side/#x14 "tree and pragmatics") · and for the second side of the tabernacle, on the north side, twenty boards.[↗](../../side/#x15 "tree and pragmatics") (Torah EXO.26.20, JPS 1917)[↗](../../side/#x15 "tree and pragmatics") · And the breadth of the court on the east side eastward shall be fifty cubits.[↗](../../side/#x16 "tree and pragmatics") (Torah EXO.27.13, JPS 1917)[↗](../../side/#x16 "tree and pragmatics") · This is the south side southward.[↗](../../side/#x17 "tree and pragmatics") (Prophets EZK.47.19, JPS 1917)[↗](../../side/#x17 "tree and pragmatics") · He measured the south side, five hundred reeds, with the measuring reed.[↗](../../side/#x18 "tree and pragmatics") (Prophets EZK.42.18, JPS 1917)[↗](../../side/#x18 "tree and pragmatics") · And the Jordan was to be the border of it on the east side.[↗](../../side/#x19 "tree and pragmatics") (Prophets JOS.18.20, JPS 1917)[↗](../../side/#x19 "tree and pragmatics") **sideline** — *Everyday, meaning 1:* The sidelines are the lines along the long sides of a sports pitch, and the area just outside them.[↗](../../sideline/#m1 "tree and pragmatics") *Everyday, meaning 2:* «On the sidelines» means watching but not taking part.[↗](../../sideline/#m2 "tree and pragmatics") *Everyday, meaning 3:* A sideline is a second, smaller job or business.[↗](../../sideline/#m3 "tree and pragmatics") *Everyday, meaning 4:* To sideline someone is to stop them taking part or make them less important.[↗](../../sideline/#m4 "tree and pragmatics") *Example:* Mum cheered from the sidelines.[↗](../../sideline/#x1 "tree and pragmatics") · The ball went over the sideline.[↗](../../sideline/#x2 "tree and pragmatics") · He was sidelined for a month with a broken toe.[↗](../../sideline/#x3 "tree and pragmatics") · She sells jewellery as a sideline.[↗](../../sideline/#x4 "tree and pragmatics") · Don't just stand on the sidelines — join in\![↗](../../sideline/#x5 "tree and pragmatics") · The new boy felt sidelined by the group.[↗](../../sideline/#x6 "tree and pragmatics") **sidestroke** — *Everyday, meaning 1:* A way of swimming while lying on your side, pushing with a scissor kick and moving your arms alternately under the water.[↗](../../sidestroke/#m1 "tree and pragmatics") *Example:* Lifeguards learn sidestroke to tow people to safety.[↗](../../sidestroke/#x1 "tree and pragmatics") · I swam a length of sidestroke.[↗](../../sidestroke/#x2 "tree and pragmatics") · Sidestroke uses a scissor kick.[↗](../../sidestroke/#x3 "tree and pragmatics") · Grandma swims sidestroke so her hair stays dry.[↗](../../sidestroke/#x4 "tree and pragmatics") · Sidestroke is slow but restful.[↗](../../sidestroke/#x5 "tree and pragmatics") · Our teacher showed us sidestroke after backstroke.[↗](../../sidestroke/#x6 "tree and pragmatics") **sidewalk** — *Everyday, meaning 1:* (American) A path at the side of a road where people walk; British and Australian «pavement» or «footpath».[↗](../../sidewalk/#m1 "tree and pragmatics") *Example:* Stay on the sidewalk and away from the road.[↗](../../sidewalk/#x1 "tree and pragmatics") · We drew hopscotch with sidewalk chalk.[↗](../../sidewalk/#x2 "tree and pragmatics") · The sidewalk was icy, so we walked slowly.[↗](../../sidewalk/#x3 "tree and pragmatics") · Watch out for cars backing out of driveways across the sidewalk.[↗](../../sidewalk/#x4 "tree and pragmatics") · Kids rode their scooters along the sidewalk.[↗](../../sidewalk/#x5 "tree and pragmatics") · Don't block the sidewalk with your bike.[↗](../../sidewalk/#x6 "tree and pragmatics") · The sidewalk ends at the corner, so cross carefully.[↗](../../sidewalk/#x7 "tree and pragmatics") · Leaves covered the sidewalk in autumn.[↗](../../sidewalk/#x8 "tree and pragmatics") · At that time the streets were not paved, and there were no sidewalks.[↗](../../sidewalk/#x9 "tree and pragmatics") **sideways** — *Everyday, meaning 1:* Sideways means to the side, or moving with one side first.[↗](../../sideways/#m1 "tree and pragmatics") *Everyday, meaning 2:* Sideways means from the side, as in a sideways look.[↗](../../sideways/#m2 "tree and pragmatics") *Example:* Crabs walk sideways.[↗](../../sideways/#x1 "tree and pragmatics") · Turn sideways to squeeze through the door.[↗](../../sideways/#x2 "tree and pragmatics") · Take two steps sideways.[↗](../../sideways/#x3 "tree and pragmatics") · She gave me a sideways look.[↗](../../sideways/#x4 "tree and pragmatics") · Move the triangle 3 squares sideways to the right.[↗](../../sideways/#x5 "tree and pragmatics") · The car slid sideways on the ice.[↗](../../sideways/#x6 "tree and pragmatics") · Hold the book sideways to read the map.[↗](../../sideways/#x7 "tree and pragmatics") · The old, lone wolf leaped sideways, snarling, and slunk away.[↗](../../sideways/#x8 "tree and pragmatics") [1](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/english/S/) … [43](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/english/S/page/43/) **44** [45](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/english/S/page/45/) … [127](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/english/S/page/127/) - ← previous: [page 43](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/english/S/page/43/) - next →: [page 45](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/english/S/page/45/) - ↑ back to [The English dictionary](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/english/)