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n. a line spoken by an actor to the audience but not intended for others on the stage

digression, aside, excursus, divagation, parenthesis

n. a message that departs from the main subject

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adv. on or to one side; "step aside"; "stood aside to let him pass"; "threw the book aside"; "put her sewing aside when he entered"

aside, apart

adv. placed or kept separate and distinct as for a purpose; "had a feeling of being set apart"; "quality sets it apart"; "a day set aside for relaxing"

aside, by, away

adv. in reserve; not for immediate use; "started setting aside money to buy a car"; "put something by for her old age"; "has a nest egg tucked away for a rainy day"

aside, by, apart, on one side, set to one side

adv. "She put her sewing by when he entered"

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circumlocution, periphrasis, ambage

n. a style that involves indirect ways of expressing things

tautology

n. useless repetition; "to say that something is `adequate enough' is a tautology"

individually, separately, singly, severally, one by one, on an individual basis

adv. apart from others; "taken individually, the rooms were, in fact, square"; "the fine points are treated singly"

apart

adv. one from the other; "people can't tell the twins apart"

aloof

adv. in an aloof manner; "the local gentry and professional classes had held aloof for the school had accepted their sons readily enough"

entirely, exclusively, solely, alone, only

adv. without any others being included or involved; "was entirely to blame"; "a school devoted entirely to the needs of problem children"; "he works for Mr. Smith exclusively"; "did it solely for money"; "the burden of proof rests on the prosecution alone"; "a privilege granted only to him"

independently

adv. on your own; without outside help; "the children worked on the project independently"

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