sided

[ sahy-did ]

/ ˈsaɪ dɪd /

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adjective

having a specified number or kind of sides (often used in combination): five-sided; plastic-sided.

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Origin of sided

late Middle English word dating back to 1425–75; see origin at side¹, -ed³

OTHER WORDS FROM sided

un·sid·ed, adjective

How to use sided in a sentence

Preheat oven to 375°F. Heat the vegetable oil in a large, high-sided cast iron skillet.
Make Carla Hall’s Crispy Shallot Green Bean Casserole|Carla Hall|December 27, 2014|DAILY BEAST
Finally, America will have to accept Bill Cosby as a many-sided man, rather than a much-loved pop-culture caricature.
Newsflash: Bill Cosby Is Not Cliff Huxtable|Tim Teeman|November 20, 2014|DAILY BEAST
I find both “admirer” and “suitor” to be presumptuous and one-sided.
What Should I Call the Man I Love?|Dushka Zapata|November 18, 2014|DAILY BEAST
All that seemed clear was the injustice of a man carrying scars from two sides of an increasingly multi-sided war.
Watching ISIS Come to Power Again|Elliot Ackerman|September 7, 2014|DAILY BEAST

On the Syria vote he sided with Sen. Paul, who opposed intervention.
How Ted Cruz Trolls Obama’s Foreign Policy|Eli Lake|July 29, 2014|DAILY BEAST
A one-sided view of the Memory proclaims that if vivid First Impressions are made in all cases, that is enough.
Assimilative Memory|Marcus Dwight Larrowe (AKA Prof. A. Loisette)
Now, unless the interlocutor adopts the same method and declares what he would do, conversation is apt to become one-sided.
The Joyous Adventures of Aristide Pujol|William J. Locke
Nothing is more frequent than a one-sided contract, in which one party has gained far more than the other.
Putnam's Handy Law Book for the Layman|Albert Sidney Bolles
Marshal Marmont has been called one of Napoleon's failures, but this criticism is one-sided and unjust.
Napoleon's Marshals|R. P. Dunn-Pattison
The belly and lower surface of the tail are covered with large six-sided scales, like the other genera of the family.
Narrative of a Survey of the Intertropical and Western Coasts of Australia] [Volume 2 of 2]|Phillip Parker King

British Dictionary definitions for sided

-sided

adjective

(in combination) having a side or sides as specifiedthree-sided; many-sided

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