ASIDE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does aside mean? 

• ASIDE (noun)
  The noun ASIDE has 2 senses:

1. a line spoken by an actor to the audience but not intended for others on the stage

2. a message that departs from the main subject

  Familiarity information: ASIDE used as a noun is rare.

• ASIDE (adverb)
  The adverb ASIDE has 6 senses:

1. on or to one side

2. out of the way (especially away from one's thoughts)

3. not taken into account or excluded from consideration

4. in a different direction

5. placed or kept separate and distinct as for a purpose

6. in reserve; not for immediate use

  Familiarity information: ASIDE used as an adverb is common.

 Dictionary entry details 

• ASIDE (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A line spoken by an actor to the audience but not intended for others on the stage

Classified under:

Nouns denoting communicative processes and contents

Hypernyms ("aside" is a kind of...):

actor's line; speech; words (words making up the dialogue of a play)

Sense 2

Meaning:

A message that departs from the main subject

Classified under:

Nouns denoting communicative processes and contents

Synonyms:

aside; digression; divagation; excursus; parenthesis

Hypernyms ("aside" is a kind of...):

content; message; subject matter; substance (what a communication that is about something is about)

• ASIDE (adverb)

Sense 1

Meaning:

On or to one side

Context example:

put her sewing aside when he entered

Sense 2

Meaning:

Out of the way (especially away from one's thoughts)

Synonyms:

aside; away

Context example:

pushed all doubts away

Sense 3

Meaning:

Not taken into account or excluded from consideration

Synonyms:

apart; aside

Context example:

all joking aside, I think you're crazy

Sense 4

Meaning:

In a different direction

Synonyms:

aside; away

Context example:

glanced away

Sense 5

Meaning:

Placed or kept separate and distinct as for a purpose

Synonyms:

apart; aside

Context example:

a day set aside for relaxing

Sense 6

Meaning:

In reserve; not for immediate use

Synonyms:

aside; away; by

Context example:

has a nest egg tucked away for a rainy day

 Context examples 

They could taste the sweetness of life with relish, and they could put the sweetness aside and command life.

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)

I set the idea aside as one which could be disproved or confirmed at our leisure.

(The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

If you receive payment for your ideas at work, by all means, set aside time to generate new ones, for they will be superb.

(AstrologyZone.com, by Susan Miller)

When dinner was done, the master horse took me aside, and by signs and words made me understand the concern he was in that I had nothing to eat.

(Gulliver's Travels into several remote nations of the world, by Jonathan Swift)

Stanley Hopkins had laid his hand upon her arm and claimed her as his prisoner, but she waved him aside gently, and yet with an over-mastering dignity which compelled obedience.

(The Return of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

I do not forget one night, when I should have been asleep, of lying on the forecastle-head and gazing down at the spectral ripple of foam thrust aside by the Ghost’s forefoot.

(The Sea-Wolf, by Jack London)

I was myself tolerably patient, and half inclined again to throw aside doubt and to accept Van Helsing's conclusions.

(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)

‘Oh,’ says she, ‘we’ve set yours aside for you—Jem’s bird, we call it.

(The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

His elder brother dashed his hand aside with an oath, while an expression of malignant hatred passed over his passion-drawn features.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Meanwhile, we shall put the case aside until more accurate data are available, and devote the rest of our morning to the pursuit of neolithic man.

(His Last Bow, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)