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Broadside vs Roadside - What's the difference?

broadside | roadside |

As nouns the difference between broadside and roadside

is that broadside is one side of a ship above the water line; all the guns on one side of a warship; their simultaneous firing while roadside is the area on either side of a road.

As an adverb broadside

is sideways; with the side turned to the direction of some object.

As a verb broadside

is to collide with something sideways on.

As an adjective roadside is

located next to (beside) a road.

broadside

English

Noun

(en noun)
  • (nautical) One side of a ship above the water line; all the guns on one side of a warship; their simultaneous firing.
  • (by extension) A forceful attack, be it written or spoken.
  • * 1993 , (Peter Kolchin), American Slavery (Penguin History, paperback edition, 34)
    • Although slaveholders managed - through a combination of political compromise and ideological broadside - to contain the threat of a major anti-slavery compaign by fellow Southerners, planters could never be totally sure of non-slaveholders' loyalty to the social order.
  • * 2013 , Luke Harding and Uki Goni, Argentina urges UK to hand back Falklands and 'end colonialism'' (in ''The Guardian , 3 January 2013)[http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk/2013/jan/02/argentina-britain-hand-back-falklands]
    • Fernández's diplomatic broadside follows the British government's decision last month to name a large frozen chunk of Antarctica after the Queen – a gesture viewed in Buenos Aires as provocative.
  • A large sheet of paper, printed on one side and folded.
  • The printed lyrics of a folk song or ballad; a broadsheet.

    • Adverb

    (-)
  • Sideways; with the side turned to the direction of some object.

    • Verb

  • To collide with something sideways on

    • References

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    roadside

    English

    Adjective

    (-)
  • Located next to (beside) a road.
  • :The roadside stand did a good business just selling products to people who merely wanted directions.
  • * 2013 , Nicholas Watt and Nick Hopkins, Afghanistan bomb: UK to 'look carefully' at use of vehicles'' (in ''The Guardian , 1 May 2013)[http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2013/may/01/afghanistan-bombs-look-vehicles]
    • David Cameron has said the government will "look carefully" at the use of heavily armoured vehicles after three British soldiers were killed in Afghanistan by a roadside bomb while travelling in a Mastiff troop carrier.

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • The area on either side of a road.
  • :I pulled over to the roadside to check the map.

    • Derived terms

    *roadside hawk