sideways

[sahyd-weyz] /ˈsaɪdˌweɪz/

adverb

with a side foremost.

facing to the side.

toward or from one side.

with a deceitful, scornful, disparaging, or amorous glance.

adjective

moving, facing, or directed toward one side.

indirect or evasive.

Also, sideway, sidewise

[sahyd-wahyz] /ˈsaɪdˌwaɪz/ (Show IPA).

Origin

1570-80; side¹ + -ways

sideway

[sahyd-wey] /ˈsaɪdˌweɪ/

noun

a byway.

adjective, adverb

Origin

1605-15; side¹ + way¹

Examples from the web for sideways

Pops let out a snort and moved sideways to the edge of the wharf, where he looked below and side to side.
The trick in both cases, was tipping the blocks sideways so that their open spaces become integral to the design.
Lateral buds grow along the sides of a shoot and give rise to the sideways growth that makes a plant bushy.
Scientists speculate that the tremors coincided with the sideways escape of pent-up gases.
If there is uplift from the sea floor then the water is pushed up and then because of its own weight it has to move sideways.
To get the gas out, companies drill down into the shale, then sideways through the deposit.
When the mouse was moved, the vertical wheel rolled along the surface while the horizontal wheel slid sideways.
Their tails are flattened sideways, and all four feet partially webbed.
The up and down, or sideways, movement ratchets up a spring that then turns some gears and flywheels.
They can grow up, sideways, split into new growing tips with branches and buds.

British Dictionary definitions for sideways

/ˈsaɪdˌweɪz/

adverb

moving, facing, or inclining towards one side

from one side; obliquely

with one side forward

adjective (prenominal)

moving or directed to or from one side

towards or from one side

Word Origin and History for sideways

adv.

1570s, from side (n.) + way, with adverbial genitive. To look sideways "cast scornful glances" is recorded from 1844.

Idioms and Phrases with sideways

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