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nearsides

nearsides is the plural 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 nearsides

What is nearsides the plural of?
Nearsides is the plural of nearside.

Words near nearsides in the dictionary

  1. nearshore
  2. nearshored
  3. nearshores
  4. nearshoring
  5. nearside
  6. nearsides
  7. nearsighted
  8. nearsightedly
  9. nearsightedness
  10. nearsightednesses
  11. neartermism

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