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Sideline can be a noun or a verb.
sideline used as a noun:
- The boundaries of a playing field.
"The coach stood on the sidelines and bellowed commands at the team." - The outside or perimeter of any activity.
"She installed the whole fixture while he simply watched from the sidelines." - Something that is additional or extra or that exists around the edges or margins of a main item.
"She started the business as a sideline to her regular work and it ended up becoming the greater source of income."
Nouns are naming words. They are used to represent a person (soldier, Jamie), place (Germany, beach), thing (telephone, mirror), quality (hardness, courage), or an action (a run, a punch). Learn more →
sideline used as a verb:
- To place on the sidelines; to bench or to keep someone out of play.
"The coach sidelined the player until he regained his strength." - To remove or keep out of circulation.
"The illness sidelined him for weeks."
Verbs are action words and state of being words. Examples of action words are: ran, attacking, dreamed. Examples of "state of being" words are: is, was, be. Learn more →
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What type of word is sideline?
- Noun usage: The coach stood on the sidelines and bellowed commands at the team.
- Noun usage: She installed the whole fixture while he simply watched from the sidelines.
- Noun usage: She started the business as a sideline to her regular work and it ended up becoming the greater source of income.
- Noun usage: Soup need not be just a sideline to a meal; if you like, it can be the main course.
- Verb usage: The coach sidelined the player until he regained his strength.
- Verb usage: The illness sidelined him for weeks.
Unfortunately, with the current database that runs this site, I don't have data about which senses of sideline are used most commonly. I've got ideas about how to fix this but will need to find a source of "sense" frequencies. Hopefully there's enough info above to help you understand the part of speech of sideline, and guess at its most common usage.
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For those interested in a little info about this site: it's a side project that I developed while working on Describing Words and Related Words. Both of those projects are based around words, but have much grander goals. I had an idea for a website that simply explains the word types of the words that you search for - just like a dictionary, but focussed on the part of speech of the words. And since I already had a lot of the infrastructure in place from the other two sites, I figured it wouldn't be too much more work to get this up and running.
The dictionary is based on the amazing Wiktionary project by wikimedia. I initially started with WordNet, but then realised that it was missing many types of words/lemma (determiners, pronouns, abbreviations, and many more). This caused me to investigate the 1913 edition of Websters Dictionary - which is now in the public domain. However, after a day's work wrangling it into a database I realised that there were far too many errors (especially with the part-of-speech tagging) for it to be viable for Word Type.
Finally, I went back to Wiktionary - which I already knew about, but had been avoiding because it's not properly structured for parsing. That's when I stumbled across the UBY project - an amazing project which needs more recognition. The researchers have parsed the whole of Wiktionary and other sources, and compiled everything into a single unified resource. I simply extracted the Wiktionary entries and threw them into this interface! So it took a little more work than expected, but I'm happy I kept at it after the first couple of blunders.
Special thanks to the contributors of the open-source code that was used in this project: the UBY project (mentioned above), @mongodb and express.js.
Currently, this is based on a version of wiktionary which is a few years old. I plan to update it to a newer version soon and that update should bring in a bunch of new word senses for many words (or more accurately, lemma).
