sideways-on
Word Rarity
Rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 3.54 in modern English
17
Scrabble Score
10
Letters
3
Syllables
9
Unique Chars
Meaning
adj
Of a stance in which something is positioned at right angles to its expected orientation.
Example Sentences
- "In this paper we show that these shapes are often not spherical, being shorter in their 'head-on' contacts than in their 'sideways-on' contacts."
- "The attacking player should also be in a sideways-on stance to receive the ball. This stance refers to the position of the attacker's body—one foot is toward the defender and the other foot toward the oncoming ball."
- "What archaic art thus portrays with varying degrees of stylization would seem to be a sideways-on stance, with the upper body at almost right angles to the shield and to the enemy."
Inflected Forms
more sideways-on (comparative)
most sideways-on (superlative)