📖 S — The English dictionary · page 44

siamang — Everyday, meaning 1: A large black gibbon (a kind of small ape) that lives in the rainforests of Malaysia, Thailand and Sumatra in Indonesia, famous for its loud calls made with a big throat sac.↗ Example: The siamang is the biggest gibbon.↗ · A siamang's throat swells up like a balloon when it calls.↗ · Siamangs swing from branch to branch with their long arms.↗ · Siamang pairs sing together every morning.↗ · Siamangs live in the rainforests of Sumatra.↗ · Siamangs are apes, so they have no tail.↗

sib — Everyday, meaning 1: (informal, slang) «Sib» is a short form of «sibling», a brother or sister.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: (old) Sib can mean a relative.↗ Example: (informal) My sibs are coming over later.↗ · (informal) I've got two sibs and a dog.↗ · (informal) Me and my sib share a room.↗ · (informal) The sibs are fighting again.↗

siberian — Everyday, meaning 1: Siberian means from or about Siberia, the huge, very cold northern part of Russia that stretches from the Ural Mountains to the Pacific Ocean.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: Siberian is also used in the names of animals and plants from there.↗ e.g. Siberian tiger, Siberian husky.↗ Everyday, meaning 3: (informal) Siberian can mean extremely cold: a Siberian wind.↗ Example: The Siberian tiger is the biggest cat in the world.↗ · Our neighbours have a Siberian husky with blue eyes.↗ · Siberian winters can reach minus fifty degrees.↗ · Lake Baikal is in southern Siberia.↗ · A Siberian wind made the playground freezing.↗ · Siberian forests are full of pine and birch trees.↗

sibilant — In Jewish tradition, meaning 1: Making a hissing sound like "s" or "sh".↗ Example: Shin is sibilant, and Aleph is the Mediator and as it were a friend placed between them.↗ (Sefer Yetzirah, Westcott 1893)↗ · Water is silent, Fire is sibilant, and Air derived fron the Spirit is as the tongue of a balance standing between these contraries which are in equilibrium, reconciling and mediating between them.↗ (Sefer Yetzirah, Westcott 1893)↗ · Water is silent, Fire is sibilant, and Air derived from the Spirit is as the tongue of a balance standing between these contraries which are in equilibrium, reconciling and mediating between them.↗ (Sefer Yetzirah, Westcott 1893)↗

sibling — Everyday, meaning 1: A sibling is a brother or sister.↗ Example: I have two siblings: a brother and a sister.↗ · Do you have any siblings?↗ · Sibling rivalry is normal, but be kind.↗ · My younger sibling started school this year.↗ · An only child has no siblings.↗ · Twins are siblings born on the same day.↗ · Siblings often share bedrooms.↗ · If there are 4 children in a family, each child has 3 siblings.↗

sibyl — Everyday, meaning 1: A sibyl is, in old stories, a woman who was believed to be able to foretell the future.↗ (old use).↗ Example: After the books were sold, the Sibyl vanished and was seen no more.↗ · The sibyl warned the king of the coming storm.↗

sibylline — Everyday, meaning 1: Sibylline means of or like a sibyl; mysterious and hard to understand, as if giving a hidden prophecy.↗ (rare).↗ Example: These oracles were collected to replace the Sibylline books.↗ · The Sibylline oracles were kept in gilt chests.↗ · Her answer was sibylline and puzzling.↗

sick — Everyday, meaning 1: Sick means ill, not healthy.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: To be sick (UK) or to feel sick can mean to throw up food from your stomach (to vomit).↗ Everyday, meaning 3: Sick of something means bored or annoyed with it because there has been too much of it.↗ Everyday, meaning 4: In slang, «sick» can mean very cool or great.↗ Example: I stayed home from school because I was sick.↗ · I feel sick after eating too many sweets.↗ · The dog was sick on the carpet.↗ · Wash your hands so you don't get sick.↗ · Some people get carsick on long trips.↗ · She was homesick at summer camp and missed her family.↗ · I'm sick of rain; I want to play outside!↗ · Look after a sick friend by bringing them a card.↗ · Sick and exhausted, he reached home.↗ · And it came to pass after these things, that one said to Joseph: 'Behold, thy father is sick.'↗ And he took with him his two sons, Manasseh and Ephraim.↗ (Torah GEN.48.1, JPS 1917)↗ · and of her that is sick with her impurity, and of them that have an issue, whether it be a man, or a woman; and of him that lieth with her that is unclean.↗ (Torah LEV.15.33, JPS 1917)↗ · In those days was Hezekiah sick unto death.↗ (Prophets 2KI.20.1, JPS 1917)↗ · At that time Abijah the son of Jeroboam fell sick.↗ (Prophets 1KI.14.1, JPS 1917)↗ · The whole head is sick, and the whole heart faint; (Prophets ISA.1.5, JPS 1917)↗

sicken — Everyday, meaning 1: To make someone feel shocked, disgusted or very upset, as if they might be sick.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: To start to become ill.↗ Everyday, meaning 3: «Sicken of» something (old-fashioned) — to become tired of it.↗ Example: The cruelty to the dog sickened everyone who saw it.↗ · The calf began to sicken and would not eat.↗ · It sickens me when people drop litter in the park.↗ · There was a sickening crash as the car hit the wall.↗ · The smell of rotten eggs sickened us.↗ · After a week of rain, we sickened of staying indoors.↗ · We lost to a sickening goal in the last minute.↗ · The sickening smell made him faint.↗

sickle — Everyday, meaning 1: A farm tool with a short handle and a curved, C-shaped blade, used for cutting grass, grain or corn by hand.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: Something shaped like this blade, such as a sickle moon (a thin crescent moon).↗ Example: The farmer cut the wheat with a sickle.↗ · A thin sickle moon hung in the evening sky.↗ · The old flag showed a hammer and sickle.↗ · In sickle cell disease, red blood cells are curved.↗ · Be careful: the blade of a sickle is very sharp.↗ · People harvested crops with sickles long before tractors.↗ · Presently they passed through a field of corn ready for the sickle, and looking like a sea of gold as it waved to and fro in the breeze.↗ · Seven weeks shalt thou number unto thee; from the time the sickle is first put to the standing corn shalt thou begin to number seven weeks.↗ (Torah DEU.16.9, JPS 1917)↗ · When thou comest into thy neighbour's standing corn, then thou mayest pluck ears with thy hand; but thou shalt not move a sickle unto thy neighbour's standing corn.↗ (Torah DEU.23.25, JPS 1917)↗ · Put ye in the sickle, for the harvest is ripe; come, tread ye, for the winepress is full, the vats overflow; for their wickedness is great.↗ (Prophets JOL.4.13, JPS 1917)↗

sickly — Everyday, meaning 1: Often ill, weak or not healthy.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: Looking pale or unhealthy.↗ Everyday, meaning 3: (of taste or smell) Too sweet in a way that makes you feel a bit sick.↗ Everyday, meaning 4: (of colour or light) Pale and unpleasant, like a sickly yellow.↗ Everyday, meaning 5: (of feelings) Too sweet or sentimental.↗ Example: She was a sickly baby but grew into a strong girl.↗ · The plant looked sickly because it had no sunlight.↗ · The cake was sickly sweet with so much icing.↗ · The room smelled of sickly perfume.↗ · The walls were painted a sickly yellow.↗ · He looked pale and sickly after the flu.↗ · The film had a sickly happy ending.↗ · Well; I will be the nurse of this poor, sickly boy.↗

sickness — Everyday, meaning 1: Sickness is being ill or unwell.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: A sickness is a particular illness or disease.↗ Everyday, meaning 3: Sickness can mean feeling like you are going to vomit (throw up), as in travel sickness or seasickness.↗ Example: He missed school because of sickness.↗ · Washing your hands helps stop sickness from spreading.↗ · I get car sickness on long, winding roads.↗ · She took a pill for seasickness before the ferry trip.↗ · Altitude sickness can happen high up in the mountains.↗ · The farmer worried about a sickness among his cows.↗ · A tummy sickness went round the whole class.↗ · Our food gave out, and we suffered much from sickness on board.↗ · Also every sickness, and every plague, which is not written in the book of this law, them will the LORD bring upon thee, until thou be destroyed.↗ (Torah DEU.28.61, JPS 1917)↗ · And ye shall serve the LORD your God, and He will bless thy bread, and thy water; and I will take sickness away from the midst of thee.↗ (Torah EXO.23.25, JPS 1917)↗ · then the LORD will make thy plagues wonderful, and the plagues of thy seed, even great plagues, and of long continuance, and sore sicknesses, and of long continuance.↗ (Torah DEU.28.59, JPS 1917)↗ · My soul refuseth to touch them; they are as the sickness of my flesh.↗ (Writings JOB.6.7, JPS 1917)↗ · All his days also he eateth in darkness, and he hath much vexation and sickness and wrath.↗ (Writings ECC.5.16, JPS 1917)↗ · My wound is grievous; but I said: 'This is but a sickness, and I must bear it.'↗ (Prophets JER.10.19, JPS 1917)↗

side — Everyday, meaning 1: A side is one of the straight lines that make a flat shape.↗ A square has 4 sides.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: A side is one of the flat faces of a solid, or a surface of a thing: both sides of the paper.↗ Everyday, meaning 3: A side is the left or right part of something, or the edge: the side of the road.↗ Everyday, meaning 4: A side is a team or group in a game or argument.↗ Everyday, meaning 5: To side with someone is to support them.↗ Everyday, meaning 6: A side (side dish) is extra food served with a meal: «a side of chips».↗ Everyday, meaning 7: (casual) «On the side» means extra or secret: «a job on the side».↗ Everyday, meaning 8: (casual, UK) «Side» can mean showing off: «no side to her» means she is not stuck-up.↗ Everyday, meaning 9: (euphemism) «Side effect» means an unwanted result, often of a medicine.↗ Everyday, meaning 10: (formal) «Edge», «flank», «lateral face» and «party» (in an argument) are stiff words for side.↗ Example: A square has 4 equal sides.↗ · Each side of the triangle is 5 cm.↗ · There are 6 trees on each side of the road.↗ · What is the perimeter of a square with side 7 m?↗ · Write on both sides of the paper.↗ · The two friends walked side by side.↗ · Which side are you on?↗ · A cube has 6 faces, sometimes called sides.↗ · burger with a side of fries, 3 of us, how many sides then (casual)↗ · Whose side are you on, you traitor?↗ (rough)↗ · Look on the bright side, it's only 2 more pages.↗ · Each side of a regular hexagon measures 4 cm; compute the perimeter thereof.↗ (formal exam)↗ · There are two sides to every question.↗ · And for the east side eastward fifty cubits.↗ (Torah EXO.38.13, JPS 1917)↗ · and for the second side of the tabernacle, on the north side, twenty boards.↗ (Torah EXO.26.20, JPS 1917)↗ · And the breadth of the court on the east side eastward shall be fifty cubits.↗ (Torah EXO.27.13, JPS 1917)↗ · This is the south side southward.↗ (Prophets EZK.47.19, JPS 1917)↗ · He measured the south side, five hundred reeds, with the measuring reed.↗ (Prophets EZK.42.18, JPS 1917)↗ · And the Jordan was to be the border of it on the east side.↗ (Prophets JOS.18.20, JPS 1917)↗

sideline — Everyday, meaning 1: The sidelines are the lines along the long sides of a sports pitch, and the area just outside them.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: «On the sidelines» means watching but not taking part.↗ Everyday, meaning 3: A sideline is a second, smaller job or business.↗ Everyday, meaning 4: To sideline someone is to stop them taking part or make them less important.↗ Example: Mum cheered from the sidelines.↗ · The ball went over the sideline.↗ · He was sidelined for a month with a broken toe.↗ · She sells jewellery as a sideline.↗ · Don't just stand on the sidelines — join in!↗ · The new boy felt sidelined by the group.↗

sidestroke — Everyday, meaning 1: A way of swimming while lying on your side, pushing with a scissor kick and moving your arms alternately under the water.↗ Example: Lifeguards learn sidestroke to tow people to safety.↗ · I swam a length of sidestroke.↗ · Sidestroke uses a scissor kick.↗ · Grandma swims sidestroke so her hair stays dry.↗ · Sidestroke is slow but restful.↗ · Our teacher showed us sidestroke after backstroke.↗

sidewalk — Everyday, meaning 1: (American) A path at the side of a road where people walk; British and Australian «pavement» or «footpath».↗ Example: Stay on the sidewalk and away from the road.↗ · We drew hopscotch with sidewalk chalk.↗ · The sidewalk was icy, so we walked slowly.↗ · Watch out for cars backing out of driveways across the sidewalk.↗ · Kids rode their scooters along the sidewalk.↗ · Don't block the sidewalk with your bike.↗ · The sidewalk ends at the corner, so cross carefully.↗ · Leaves covered the sidewalk in autumn.↗ · At that time the streets were not paved, and there were no sidewalks.↗

sideways — Everyday, meaning 1: Sideways means to the side, or moving with one side first.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: Sideways means from the side, as in a sideways look.↗ Example: Crabs walk sideways.↗ · Turn sideways to squeeze through the door.↗ · Take two steps sideways.↗ · She gave me a sideways look.↗ · Move the triangle 3 squares sideways to the right.↗ · The car slid sideways on the ice.↗ · Hold the book sideways to read the map.↗ · The old, lone wolf leaped sideways, snarling, and slunk away.↗