sidebar

noun

Etymology

From side + bar.

A short news story printed alongside a larger one.
2
A block of information placed at the side of a printed page.
- The tables in the sidebar can be used to determine “average” height and weight, and to provide a slight random variation if desired.
A block of information placed at the side of a webpage.
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1. A short conference, between a judge and the attorneys of a case, held outside the hearing…
  A short conference, between a judge and the attorneys of a case, held outside the hearing of the jury and the spectators at the court.
2. The place in the courtroom where such a conference happens.
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  An accessory side note or aside made during a conversation, without changing the scope of…
  An accessory side note or aside made during a conversation, without changing the scope of the audience.
  - Well, when Charlotte had her mini-death, she went to Hell. Forest haunted her Hell loop and now is haunting her nightmares -- which, sidebar, Dan is also a part of, so things are heating up.
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  A short conversation between a smaller portion of a group held outside the hearing of the…
  A short conversation between a smaller portion of a group held outside the hearing of the rest of the group.
  - May we have a moment to discuss your proposition? Sidebar! Let's pick a topic. Sidebar!
5. To place (information) into a sidebar, or as if into a sidebar.

No curated loop yet for sidebar. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA