noun

• (UK, Australia, Ireland) A sports team.
  "Newly promoted, they were top of the First Division and unbeaten when they took on a Manchester United side that had been revitalized by a new manager,[…]."
• (music) A recorded piece of music; a record, especially in jazz.
  "But Bechet chafed under even the loose discipline of the Ellington group, and left. Through these years he wandered, making only a few sides, at the moment when jazz records were beginning to flood onto the market."
• (sports, billiards, snooker, pool) Sidespin; english
  "He had to put a bit of side on to hit the pink ball."
• (British, Australia, Ireland, dated) A television channel, usually as opposed to the one currently being watched (from when there were only two channels).
  "I just want to see what's on the other side — James said there was a good film on tonight."

verb

• (intransitive) To ally oneself, be in an alliance, usually with "with" or rarely "in with"
  "Which will you side with, good or evil?"
• (transitive, obsolete) To be or stand at the side of; to be on the side toward.
  "His blind eye that syded Paridell."
• (transitive, obsolete) To suit; to pair; to match.
  "1660-1667, Edward Hyde, 1st Earl of Clarendon, The Life of Edward Earl of Clarendon He had ure read more , and carried more about him , in his excellent Memory , than any Man I ever knew , my Lord Falkland only excepted , who I think ided him"
• (transitive, shipbuilding) To work (a timber or rib) to a certain thickness by trimming the sides.

adj

• (UK archaic, dialectal, Northern England, Scotland) Wide; large; long, pendulous, hanging low, trailing; far-reaching.
  "But when he perceaved that the sayd Pryest could not pourge himself of the foresayd crime he prively payed him his quarters wages before hande and suffered hym to departe without farther tryall of the sayd cryme: and now he jetteth in london wyth side gown and sarcenet typet as good a virgin priest as the best."
• (Scotland) Far; distant.

adv

• (UK dialectal) Widely; wide; far.