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sideways-on en · ADJ

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1. Of a stance in which something is positioned at right angles to its expected orientation.
   • What archaic art thus portrays with varying degrees of stylization would seem to be a sideways-on stance, with the upper body at almost right angles to the shield and to the enemy. 2010, Donald Kagan, Gregory F. Viggiano, Problems in the History of Ancient Greece: Sources and Interpretation:
   • The attacking player should also be in a sideways-on stance to receive the ball. This stance refers to the position of the attacker's body—one foot is toward the defender and the other foot toward the oncoming ball. 2006, James W. Lennox, Janet Rayfield, Bill Steffen, Soccer Skills and Drills, page 28:
   • In this paper we show that these shapes are often not spherical, being shorter in their 'head-on' contacts than in their 'sideways-on' contacts. 1985, SC Nyburg, CH Faerman, “A revision of van der Waals atomic radii for molecular crystals: N, O, F, S, Cl, Se, Br and I bonded to carbon”, in Acta Crystallographica Section B STRUCTURAL SCIENCE, CRYSTAL ENGINEERING AND MATERIALS:

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