Word Meanings - SIDETRACK - Book Publishers vocabulary database

1. To transfer to a siding from a main line of track. 2. Hence, fig., to divert or reduce to a position or condition that is relatively secondary or subordinate in activity, importance, effectiveness, or the like; to switch off; to turn aside,

Additional info about word: SIDETRACK

1. To transfer to a siding from a main line of track. 2. Hence, fig., to divert or reduce to a position or condition that is relatively secondary or subordinate in activity, importance, effectiveness, or the like; to switch off; to turn aside, as from a purpose. Such a project was, in fact, sidetracked in favor of the census of school children. Pop. Sci. Monthly.

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• SIDEBOARD
  A piece of dining-room furniture having compartments and shelves for keeping or displaying articles of table service. At a stately sideboard, by the wine, That fragrant smell diffused. Milton.
• SIDESADDLE
  A saddle for women, in which the rider sits with both feet on one side of the animal mounted. Sidesaddle flower , a plant with hollow leaves and curiously shaped flowers; -- called also huntsman's cup. See Sarracenia.
• ASIDE
  1. 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. Thou shalt set aside that which is full. 2 Kings iv. 4. But soft! but soft! aside: here comes the king. Shak.
• SIDE
  1. To lean on one side. Bacon. 2. To embrace the opinions of one party, or engage in its interest, in opposition to another party; to take sides; as, to side with the ministerial party. All side in parties, and begin the attack. Pope.
• REDUCEMENT
  Reduction. Milton.
• TRACKLAYER
  Any workman engaged in work involved in putting the track in place. -- Track"lay`ing, n.
• ACTIVITY
  The state or quality of being active; nimbleness; agility; vigorous action or operation; energy; active force; as, an increasing variety of human activities. "The activity of toil." Palfrey. Syn. -- Liveliness; briskness; quickness.
• SIDEWALK
  A walk for foot passengers at the side of a street or road; a foot pavement.
• CONDITIONALITY
  The quality of being conditional, or limited; limitation by certain terms.
• REDUCE
  To bring to the metallic state by separating from impurities; hence, in general, to remove oxygen from; to deoxidize; to combine with, or to subject to the action of, hydrogen; as, ferric iron is reduced to ferrous iron; or metals are reduced from
• TRACKWALKER
  A person employed to walk over and inspect a section of tracks.
• SIDE-SLIP
  See BELOW
• SIDEWISE
  On or toward one side; laterally; sideways. I saw them mask their awful glance Sidewise meek in gossamer lids. Emerson.
• CONDITIONATE
  1. To qualify by conditions; to regulate. 2. To put under conditions; to render conditional.
• SIDE-TAKING
  A taking sides, as with a party, sect, or faction. Bp. Hall.
• SIDERATED
  Planet-struck; blasted.
• DIVERTING
  Amusing; entertaining. -- Di*vert"ing*ly, adv. -- Di*vert"ing*ness, n.
• RELATIVELY
  In a relative manner; in relation or respect to something else; not absolutely. Consider the absolute affections of any being as it is in itself, before you consider it relatively. I. Watts.
• SIDEWINDER
  1. See Horned rattler, under Horned. 2. A heavy swinging blow from the side, which disables an adversary.
• SIDEROGRAPHIC; SIDEROGRAPHICAL
  Of or pertaining to siderography; executed by engraved plates of steel; as, siderographic art; siderographic impressions.
• CROWN SIDE
  See OFFICE
• WAYSIDE
  The side of the way; the edge or border of a road or path.
• DISSIDENT
  No agreeing; dissenting; discordant; different. Our life and manners be dissident from theirs. Robynson (More's Utopia). (more info) sit apart, to disagree; dis- + sedere to sit: cf. F. dissident. See
• HILLSIDE
  The side or declivity of a hill.
• TWO-SIDED
  Symmetrical. (more info) 1. Having two sides only; hence, double-faced; hypocritical.
• WHITESIDE
  The golden-eye.
• CONSIDERINGLY
  With consideration or deliberation.
• INSIDIOUS
  insidere to sit in; pref. in- + sedere to sit: cf. F. insidieux. See 1. Lying in wait; watching an opportunity to insnare or entrap; deceitful; sly; treacherous; -- said of persons; as, the insidious foe. "The insidious witch." Cowper. 2. Intended
• UNCONSIDERED
  Not considered or attended to; not regarded; inconsiderable; trifling. A snapper-up of unconsidered trifles. Shak.
• HEREHENCE
  From hence.
• INSUBORDINATE
  Not submitting to authority; disobedient; rebellious; mutinous
• OBSIDIONAL
  Of or pertaining to a siege. Obsidional crown , a crown bestowed upon a general who raised the siege of a beleaguered place, or upon one who held out against a siege.
• DESIDERABLE
  Desirable. "Good and desiderable things." Holland.
• WHENCEFORTH
  From, or forth from, what or which place; whence. Spenser.
• GLUCOSIDE
  One of a large series of amorphous or crystalline substances, occurring very widely distributed in plants, rarely in animals, and regarded as influental agents in the formation and disposition of the sugars. They are frequently of a bitter taste,
• PRESIDENT
  Precedent. Bacon.