aside

1. aside (adv) — sense 1

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

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

2. aside (adv) — sense 2

Definition: Excluded from consideration.

Example: joking aside

3. aside (adj) — sense 3

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

Example: Her figure was slight; but the cruel accident—a fall in her childhood, which had laid the foundation of her ill health—had made her a little aside, and caused a degree of lameness, which rendered it difficult for her to move without assistance.

4. aside (noun) — sense 4

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

5. aside (noun) — sense 5

Definition: 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.: A brief comment by a character addressing the audience, unheard by other characters.

6. aside (noun) — sense 6

Definition: A minor related mention, an afterthought.

Example: 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