Sideways-on
Definition, Meaning & Examples
Part of speech adjective
Quick meaning: Sideways-on is an adjective meaning Of a stance in which something is positioned at right angles to its expected orientation.
Meaning
Of a stance in which something is positioned at right angles to its expected orientation.
Example Sentences
In this paper we show that these shapes are often not spherical, being shorter in their 'head-on' contacts than in their 'sideways-on' contacts.
What archaic art thus portrays with varying degrees of stylization would seem to be a sideways-on stance, with the upper body at almost right angles to the shield and to the enemy.
The attacking player should also be in a sideways-on stance to receive the ball. This stance refers to the position of the attacker's body—one foot is toward the defender and the other foot toward the oncoming ball.
Related Words
Related dictionary entries include sideways, sidelong, sideway, rightways, atilt, biased.
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