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Roadside vs Sideway - What's the difference?

roadside | sideway |

As adjectives the difference between roadside and sideway

is that roadside is located next to (beside) a road while sideway is sidelong.

As nouns the difference between roadside and sideway

is that roadside is the area on either side of a road while sideway is a footpath near a road.

As an adverb sideway is

sideways.

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

    sideway

    English

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • A footpath near a road.
  • A byway.

    • Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • sidelong

    • Adverb

    (en adverb)
  • sideways

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