What does side mean?
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What does side mean? - The Free Dictionary
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(they always sat on the right side of the church he never left my side)
(Who are you widing with? I'm siding against the current candidate)
(side fences the side porch)
(the Confederate side was prepared to attack)
(he had a pain in his side)
(he examined all sides of the crystal dew dripped from the face of the leaf)
(he turned the box over to examine the bottom side they painted all four sides of the house)
(he was on the heavy side he is on the purchasing side of the business it brought out his better side)
(the hypotenuse of a right triangle is always the longest side)
(he gets his brains from his father's side)
(there are two sides to every question)
(he climbed the steep slope the house was built on the side of a mountain)
Other vocabulary
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