Definition von „aside“ auf Englisch

adverb

1. To or on one side so as to be out of the way.

   • Move aside, please, so that these people can come through.

2. Excluded from consideration.

   • joking aside
   • unusual circumstances aside

adjective

1. Not in perfect symmetry; distorted laterally, especially of the human body.

noun

1. An incidental remark to a person next to one made discreetly but not in private, audible only to that person.

2. An incidental remark to a person next to one made discreetly but not in private, audible only to that person. (theater) A brief comment by a character addressing the audience, unheard by other characters.

3. A minor related mention, an afterthought.

   • This, then, is what we have done up to now in this book. (As I have been doing right along) may I make an aside? (An aside is a part in an old-time play or movie in which an actor steps out of character to say something to the audience of a semi-private or semi-confidential nature about the play.) I am confounded, and somewhat appalled when I read over the scholarly works referred to