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near-side

near-side is the alternative form of nearside.

Meaning of nearside

Noun

nearside (plural nearsides)

  1. (UK) The side of a road vehicle nearest to the kerb: the left side if one drives on the left of the road.
    • An unhappy-looking "foreigner" on Beattock shed on August 18 was Class A2 No. 60529. It had taken the West Coast main line with an unidentified working, but failed at Lockerbie with a blown-out nearside cylinder; [...].1962 October, “Motive Power Miscellany: Scottish Region”, in Modern Railways, page 286
  2. The face of the Moon nearest the Earth.
  3. (US, historical) A streetcar designed to discharge passengers on the near side of an intersection, rather than the far side.

Questions about near-side

What is near-side the alternative form of?
Near-side is the alternative form of nearside.

Words near near-side in the dictionary

  1. near-natives
  2. near-rectilinear halo orbit
  3. near-rectilinear halo orbits
  4. near-ring
  5. near-rings
  6. near-side
  7. near-sighted
  8. near-sightedness
  9. near-surface
  10. near-syncope
  11. near-synonym

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