Definition of Aside

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Definition of Aside

Aside

On, or to, one side; out of a straight line, course, or direction; at a little distance from the rest; out of the way; apart.

Out of one's thoughts; off; away; as, to put aside gloomy thoughts.

So as to be heard by others; privately.

Something spoken aside; as, a remark made by a stageplayer which the other players are not supposed to hear.

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Aside Quotations

I was only the servant of my country and had I, at any moment, failed to express her unflinching resolve to fight and conquer, I should at once have been rightly cast aside.
Winston Churchill

The limitation of riots, moral questions aside, is that they cannot win and their participants know it. Hence, rioting is not revolutionary but reactionary because it invites defeat. It involves an emotional catharsis, but it must be followed by a sense of futility.
Martin Luther King, Jr.

History is a relentless master. It has no present, only the past rushing into the future. To try to hold fast is to be swept aside.
John F. Kennedy

When we assumed the Soldier, we did not lay aside the Citizen.
George Washington

To be admitted to Nature's hearth costs nothing. None is excluded, but excludes himself. You have only to push aside the curtain.
Henry David Thoreau

Books can only reveal us to ourselves, and as often as they do us this service we lay them aside.
Henry David Thoreau

Too often the great decisions are originated and given form in bodies made up wholly of men, or so completely dominated by them that whatever of special value women have to offer is shunted aside without expression.
Eleanor Roosevelt

Have you learned the lessons only of those who admired you, and were tender with you, and stood aside for you? Have you not learned great lessons from those who braced themselves against you, and disputed passage with you?
Walt Whitman

The world turns aside to let any man pass who knows where he is going.
Epictetus

Be not the first by whom the new are tried, Nor yet the last to lay the old aside.
Alexander Pope

Aside Translations

aside in French is se ranger
aside in German is Abseits {n}, daneben, beiseite, beiseite
aside in Spanish is al lado, aparte

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