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1. A short, often boxed auxiliary news story that is printed alongside a longer article and that typically presents additional, contrasting, or late-breaking news.
2. Law. A conference between a judge and the attorneys of a case being tried, held outside of the jury's range of hearing.

(1) A Windows Vista desktop panel that holds mini applications (gadgets) such as a calendar, calculator, stock ticker and Vonage phone dialer. It is the Windows counterpart to the Dashboard in the Mac. See Windows Vista and gadget.

(2) A feature in the Firefox Web browser that displays history, bookmarks or any bookmarked page in a scrolling window. IE has similar capabilities in its Favorites Center, but does not refer to the window as a sidebar.

(3) A Windows 3.1 shell that replaced Program and File Manager and streamlined the desktop. Originally developed by Mike McCue of Paper Software, it was later acquired by Quarterdeck.

(4) A generic term for an auxiliary window on screen that is displayed alongside the main window.

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The noun has 2 meanings:

Meaning #1: (law) a courtroom conference between the lawyers and the judge in a trial that is held out of the jury's hearing

Meaning #2: a short news story presenting sidelights on a major story

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Sidebar may refer to:

• Sidebar (publishing)
• Sidebar (law)
• Sidebar (computing), a type of graphical user interface element
  • Windows Sidebar, in Windows Vista (called Windows Desktop Gadgets in Windows 7)
• Sidebar, a longitudinal elastic wooden bar on some buggies and other light vehicles

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