noun
- A line spoken by an actor to the audience but not intended for others on the stage.
- A message that departs from the main subject.
- synonyms: digression, excursus, divagation, parenthesis
adverb
- On or to one side.
- usage: "step aside"; "stood aside to let him pass"; "threw the book aside"; "put her sewing aside when he entered"
- Out of the way (especially away from one's thoughts. )
- usage: "brush the objections aside"; "pushed all doubts away"
- synonyms: away
- Not taken into account or excluded from consideration.
- usage: "these problems apart, the country is doing well"; "all joking aside, I think you're crazy"
- synonyms: apart
- In a different direction.
- usage: "turn aside"; "turn away one's face"; "glanced away"
- synonyms: away
- Placed or kept separate and distinct as for a purpose.
- usage: "had a feeling of being set apart"; "quality sets it apart"; "a day set aside for relaxing"
- synonyms: apart
- In reserve; not for immediate use.
- usage: "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"
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