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side-effect en · NOUN

Meanings

  1. (alt-of, alternative) Alternative form of side effect.
    • Gynecomastia is estimated to affect anywhere from 30 to 70 per cent of males at some stage of their lives. And "gyne" or "gyno", as it's commonly known, is not only an unwelcome (and ironic) side-effect of anabolic-androgenic - that is, muscle-building and masculinising - steroids: it can also be caused by other hormonal disruptors such as alcohol, cigarettes, cannabis, obesity, puberty (usually temporarily) and old age. But [Tom] Powell says his gyno was "99 percent" likely due to steroids. […] The new generation of lifters are disparaged as “SARM goblins” for their embrace of the new generation of IPEDs called Selective Androgen Receptor Modulators, which supposedly provide most of the benefits of steroids and fewer of the side-effects, and can be bought online on sites like eBay and Depop. 2022 June 28, Jamie Millar, “'SARM Goblins': The Young Men Hooked on Steroids”, in VICE, archived from the original on 07 Nov 2023:
    • A common and beautiful side-effect of high solar activity is the Aurora Borealis - the northern lights that dance across Arctic skies. 2023 November 15, Prof. Jim Wild, “This train was delayed because of bad weather in space”, in RAIL, number 996, page 30:

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side-effects Number=Plur lexicographic

side-effect en · VERB

Meanings

  1. (transitive) To alter as a side effect.
    • Furthermore, we are on the look-out for pre-conditions for good therapy - so as to prevent the unintended bad therapy: but our efforts are duly side-effected by lack of control over such preconditions. 1980, W. de Moor, H. R. Wijngaarden, Psychotherapy, research and training, page 147:
    • Local objects can further be distinguished by whether or not they are escaping from the execution of m, and non-local objects can be further distinguished by whether or not they are side-effected by a visible side-effect during the execution of m: 2002, Asian Symposium on Partial Evaluation and Semantics-Based Program Manipulation:
    • Hence, side-effecting the environment is equivalent to collaborating with an autonomous co-robot. 2012, Robert L. Constable, Alexandra Silva, Logic and Program Semantics:

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side-effects Number=Sing, Person=3, Tense=Pres lexicographic
side-effected Tense=Past, VerbForm=Part lexicographic
side-effected Tense=Past lexicographic
side-effecting Tense=Pres, VerbForm=Part lexicographic