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Meaning of aside

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From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:

  aside
      adv 1: on or to one side; "step aside"; "stood aside to let him
             pass"; "threw the book aside"; "put her sewing aside when
             he entered"
      2: out of the way (especially away from one's thoughts); "brush
         the objections aside"; "pushed all doubts away" [syn:
         {aside}, {away}]
      3: not taken into account or excluded from consideration; "these
         problems apart, the country is doing well"; "all joking
         aside, I think you're crazy" [syn: {apart}, {aside}]
      4: in a different direction; "turn aside"; "turn away one's
         face"; "glanced away" [syn: {away}, {aside}]
      5: placed or kept separate and distinct as for a purpose; "had a
         feeling of being set apart"; "quality sets it apart"; "a day
         set aside for relaxing" [syn: {aside}, {apart}]
      6: in reserve; not for immediate use; "started setting aside
         money to buy a car"; "put something by for her old age"; "has
         a nest egg tucked away for a rainy day" [syn: {aside}, {by},
         {away}]
      n 1: a line spoken by an actor to the audience but not intended
           for others on the stage
      2: a message that departs from the main subject [syn:
         {digression}, {aside}, {excursus}, {divagation},
         {parenthesis}]

Source : WordNet ® Princeton University. 2010.

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