aside

(ə-sīd')
adv.

1. To or toward the side: step aside.
2. Out of one's thoughts or mind: put my doubts aside.
3. Apart: a day set aside for relaxing.
4. In reserve; away: put a little money aside.
5. Set out of the way; dispensed with: All joking aside, can you swim 15 miles?

n.

1. A piece of dialogue intended for the audience and supposedly not heard by the other actors on stage.
2. A remark made in an undertone so as to be inaudible to others nearby.
3. A parenthetical departure; a digression.

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Written as one word, aside is an adverb meaning 'to or on one side', as in to put aside, to take aside, etc., or a noun meaning words in a play spoken to the audience out of hearing of the other characters. In the meaning 'on each side' it must be written as two words, as in They are playing five a side and a five-a-side team.

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noun

An instance of digressing: deviation, digression, divagation, divergence, divergency, excursion, excursus, irrelevancy, parenthesis, tangent. See approach/retreat.

adv

Definition: away from; to the side
Antonyms: middle

aside, a short speech or remark spoken by a character in a drama, directed either to the audience or to another character, which by convention is supposed to be inaudible to the other characters on stage. See also soliloquy.

IN BRIEF: n. - A message that departs from the main subject; A line spoken by an actor to the audience but not intended for others on the stage. Also: Adv.- Apart; Away from some normal direction; Away.

Be not the first by whom the new are tried, Nor yet the last to lay the old aside. — Alexander Pope, Source: An Essay on Criticism, 1711, 1. 135

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For a list of words related to aside, see:

• Stagecraft, Production, and Dramatic Structure - aside: actor’s lines spoken to audience, not other actors
• Prepositions
• Relative Positions - aside: (adv) toward or on one side

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Dansk (Danish)
adv. - til side, afsides, til siden
n. - sidespring, digression

idioms:

• aside from    bortset fra
• set aside    lægge til side, stille til side

Nederlands (Dutch)
terzijde, opzij, terloopse opmerking, voor publiek bestemde opmerking van acteur

Français (French)
adv. - de côté, à l'écart, à part
n. - (Théât) aparté

idioms:

• aside from    à part
• draw someone aside    prendre qn à part
• put aside    réserver, mettre de côté
• set aside    réserver, mettre de côté, (Jur) casser (un jugement)

Deutsch (German)
adv. - beiseite, zur Seite
n. - (Theat.) Aparte, Nebeneffekt

idioms:

• aside from    bis auf
• draw someone aside    beiseite nehmen, zur Seite ziehen
• put aside    absehen von, beiseite od. auf die Seite legen
• set aside    beiseite legen, außer acht lassen, aufschieben, vergessen, außer acht lassen, zurücklegen

Ελληνική (Greek)
adv. - πλάι, κατά μέρος, στη μπάντα, από τη μια πλευρά, (ουσ.) σκηνική αποστροφή, υπαινιγμός

idioms:

• aside from    εκτός από, ξέχωρα από, πέρα
• set aside    βάζω κατά μέρος, (νομ.) απορρίπτω

Italiano (Italian)
a parte

idioms:

• aside from    tranne, a parte
• set aside    mettere da parte, eliminare
• take aside    prendere da parte
• turn aside    sviare, distogliere, scostarsi

Português (Portuguese)
adv. - de lado, à parte, fora

idioms:

• aside from    para fora, além de, com exclusão de
• lay aside    permanecer de fora
• set aside    por de lado, economizar, rejeitar, anular
• stand aside    ficar de fora
• take aside    levar para fora
• turn aside    desviar(-se) para fora, virar para

Русский (Russian)
около, рядом

idioms:

• aside from    помимо, кроме
• lay aside    отложить
• set aside    откладывать, отвергать, оставлять без внимания, аннулировать, не учитывать, пренебрегать, аннулировать
• stand aside    отступать в сторону, посторониться
• take aside    отвести в сторону
• turn aside    повернуть
• turn aside    свернуть в сторону

Español (Spanish)
adv. - aparte, al lado
n. - aparte

idioms:

• aside from    además de, aparte de
• draw someone aside    apartar a alguien, dejar a alguien de lado
• put aside    hacer o poner a un lado
• set aside    anular, dejar de lado, rechazar, desechar, apartar, ahorrar

Svenska (Swedish)
adv. - avsides, åt sidan

中文（简体）(Chinese (Simplified))
在旁边, 离开, 到旁边, 撇开, 旁白, 离题的话, 私语, 悄悄话

idioms:

• aside from    除...以外
• set aside    留出, 取消, 不顾

中文（繁體）(Chinese (Traditional))
adv. - 在旁邊, 離開, 到旁邊, 撇開
n. - 旁白, 離題的話, 私語, 悄悄話

idioms:

• aside from    除...以外
• set aside    留出, 取消, 不顧

한국어 (Korean)
adv. - 곁에, 벗어나, 간직해 두어
n. - 방백

idioms:

• set aside    파기하다

日本語 (Japanese)
n. - 傍白, 脇台詞, 私語, 余談
adv. - わきへ, 脇に, 少し離れて

idioms:

• aside from    …は別として, …のほかに
• set aside    取っておく, 横に置く, 無視する, 捨てる, 破棄する
• take aside    わきへ連れていく

العربيه (Arabic)
‏(ظرف) جانبا, على انفراد‏

עברית (Hebrew)
adv. - ‮הצידה, לצד, בצד, חוץ מ-‬
n. - ‮הערה מקרית, דברים שאומר שחקן לקהל, לא לשחקנים אחרים על הבמה‬

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