Meaning of "sidetrack" in the English dictionary

PRONUNCIATION OF SIDETRACK

sidetrack  [ˈsaɪdˌtræk]

GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF SIDETRACK

Sidetrack is a verb and can also act as a noun.

A noun is a type of word the meaning of which determines reality. Nouns provide the names for all things: people, objects, sensations, feelings, etc.

The verb is the part of the sentence that is conjugated and expresses action and state of being.

See the conjugation of the verb sidetrack in English.

WHAT DOES SIDETRACK MEAN IN ENGLISH?

Sidetrack

A sidetrack is a railroad track other than siding that is auxiliary to the main track. The word is also used as a verb to refer to the movement of trains and railcars from the main track to a siding, and in common parlance to refer to giving in to distractions apart from a main subject. Sidetracks are used by railroads to order and organize the flow of rail traffic.

Definition of sidetrack in the English dictionary

The first definition of sidetrack in the dictionary is to distract or be distracted from a main subject or topic. Other definition of sidetrack is a railway siding. Sidetrack is also the act or an instance of sidetracking; digression.

CONJUGATION OF THE VERB TO SIDETRACK

PRESENT

Present

I sidetrack

you sidetrack

he/she/it sidetracks

we sidetrack

you sidetrack

they sidetrack

Present continuous

I am sidetracking

you are sidetracking

he/she/it is sidetracking

we are sidetracking

you are sidetracking

they are sidetracking

Present perfect

I have sidetracked

you have sidetracked

he/she/it has sidetracked

we have sidetracked

you have sidetracked

they have sidetracked

Present perfect continuous

I have been sidetracking

you have been sidetracking

he/she/it has been sidetracking

we have been sidetracking

you have been sidetracking

they have been sidetracking

Present tense is used to refer to circumstances that exist at the present time or over a period that includes the present time. The present perfect refers to past events, although it can be considered to denote primarily the resulting present situation rather than the events themselves.

PAST

Past

I sidetracked

you sidetracked

he/she/it sidetracked

we sidetracked

you sidetracked

they sidetracked

Past continuous

I was sidetracking

you were sidetracking

he/she/it was sidetracking

we were sidetracking

you were sidetracking

they were sidetracking

Past perfect

I had sidetracked

you had sidetracked

he/she/it had sidetracked

we had sidetracked

you had sidetracked

they had sidetracked

Past perfect continuous

I had been sidetracking

you had been sidetracking

he/she/it had been sidetracking

we had been sidetracking

you had been sidetracking

they had been sidetracking

Past tense forms express circumstances existing at some time in the past,

FUTURE

Future

I will sidetrack

you will sidetrack

he/she/it will sidetrack

we will sidetrack

you will sidetrack

they will sidetrack

Future continuous

I will be sidetracking

you will be sidetracking

he/she/it will be sidetracking

we will be sidetracking

you will be sidetracking

they will be sidetracking

Future perfect

I will have sidetracked

you will have sidetracked

he/she/it will have sidetracked

we will have sidetracked

you will have sidetracked

they will have sidetracked

Future perfect continuous

I will have been sidetracking

you will have been sidetracking

he/she/it will have been sidetracking

we will have been sidetracking

you will have been sidetracking

they will have been sidetracking

The future is used to express circumstances that will occur at a later time.

CONDITIONAL

Conditional

I would sidetrack

you would sidetrack

he/she/it would sidetrack

we would sidetrack

you would sidetrack

they would sidetrack

Conditional continuous

I would be sidetracking

you would be sidetracking

he/she/it would be sidetracking

we would be sidetracking

you would be sidetracking

they would be sidetracking

Conditional perfect

I would have sidetrack

you would have sidetrack

he/she/it would have sidetrack

we would have sidetrack

you would have sidetrack

they would have sidetrack

Conditional perfect continuous

I would have been sidetracking

you would have been sidetracking

he/she/it would have been sidetracking

we would have been sidetracking

you would have been sidetracking

they would have been sidetracking

Conditional or "future-in-the-past" tense refers to hypothetical or possible actions.

IMPERATIVE

Imperative

you sidetrack
we let´s sidetrack
you sidetrack

The imperative is used to form commands or requests.

NONFINITE VERB FORMS

Infinitive

to sidetrack

Past participle

sidetracked

Present Participle

sidetracking

Infinitive shows the action beyond temporal perspective. The present participle or gerund shows the action during the session. The past participle shows the action after completion.

SYNONYMS OF «SIDETRACK»

The following words have a similar or identical meaning as «sidetrack» and belong to the same grammatical category.

synonyms of sidetrack

deflect · distract · divert

TRANSLATION OF SIDETRACK

Find out the translation of sidetrack to 25 languages with our English multilingual translator.

The translations of sidetrack from English to other languages presented in this section have been obtained through automatic statistical translation; where the essential translation unit is the word «sidetrack» in English.

• Translator English - Chinese: 侧线
• Translator English - Spanish: sidetrack
• English: sidetrack
• Translator English - Hindi: गतिरोध
• Translator English - Arabic: انحرف
• Translator English - Russian: боковой ствол
• Translator English - Portuguese: sidetrack
• Translator English - Bengali: উপপথ
• Translator English - French: déviation
• Translator English - Malay: Jalan balik
• Translator English - German: Sidetrack
• Translator English - Japanese: 側線
• Translator English - Korean: 비키
• Translator English - Javanese: Sidetrack
• Translator English - Vietnamese: hoản lại sau
• Translator English - Tamil: விஷயத்தில் இருந்து விலகிப் போ
• Translator English - Marathi: सिडेट्रॅक
• Translator English - Turkish: caydırmak
• Translator English - Italian: sidetrack
• Translator English - Polish: marynować
• Translator English - Ukrainian: бічний стовбур
• Translator English - Romanian: linie de garare
• Translator English - Greek: sidetrack
• Translator English - Afrikaans: zijspoor
• Translator English - Swedish: sidospår
• Translator English - Norwegian: sidesteg

QUOTES WITH «SIDETRACK»

Famous quotes and sentences with the word sidetrack.

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Michael K. Simpson

I have long believed these types of collaborative agreements are a far better approach to federal land management than the contentious battles that too often sidetrack proper resource management.

10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «SIDETRACK»

Discover the use of sidetrack in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to sidetrack and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.

Sidetrack City: And Other Tales

Sidetrack City collects his best comic book stories.

Kaz, 1996

SideTrack: The Maze of Horror

SideTrack, Enter the Maze of Horror, is her best book by far. John Pritchett, her husband, came up with the storyline, and they are willing to bet, once you start reading, you will not be able to put it down.

Lecy Pritchett, 2003

SideTrack: The Maze of Horror

The Maze of Horror Lecy McKenzie. feeling of desperation seemed to take hold of me, but I could not understand where it was coming from or what on earth was making me feel that way. Maybe I had a premonition, and maybe I should have ...

Lecy McKenzie, 2013

Cowboy Life on the Sidetrack: Being an Extremely Humorous & ...

Frank Benton. tail. Then something commenced to annoy the animal in front, and it started to back a little farther. It was then he gave that despairing, bloodcurdling, soulfreezing yell that woke usup, and he saidhecould stillsmellthat awful ...

Frank Benton

The Guide to Oilwell Fishing Operations: Tools, Techniques, ...

WHIPSTOCK SYSTEMS AND ANCHORS Whipstocks are used to sidetrack a wellbore when re-entering an existing wellbore as a cost-effective alternative to fishing a drilling bottom-hole assembly (BHA) that has become stuck, for severe ...

Joe P. DeGeare, David Haughton, Mark McGurk, 2003

Our Australian Theatre in the 1990s

Sidetrack Performance Group and the postmodern turn Tom Burvill Early in 1994 Sidetrack Theatre Company, which had operated in Marrickville, a inner western suburb of Sydney under that name since its establishment in 1979, changed its ...

Veronica Kelly, 1998

Sidetrack? You Lucky Dog

Bill Leisure, leisurely footing the bill.

D. Max Kinsley, 2005

A Field Guide to Gay & Lesbian Chicago

The bartenders will flirt, Aunt Agnes will hum along to "Moon River," and Mum will realize that not every gay nightspot is redolent of Crisco and the cries of the paddled. You can take her to the Cellblock for that. Sidetrack 3349 N. Halsted St.,  ...

Kathie Bergquist, Robert McDonald, 2006

Directional Drilling

Whipstocks The use of a whipstock to sidetrack around a stuck fish dates back to the late 1 890s. The original whipstock was probably a wedge-shaped piece of wood that was dropped down on top of the fish. When the bit was lowered down ...

Tom Inglis, 1988

Code of Federal Regulations, Title 30, Mineral Resources, ...

Example 2: If you have a qualified deep well that is a sidetrack, with a perforated interval the top of which is 16,000 feet TVD SS and a sidetrack measured depth of 6,789 feet, we round the measured depth to 6.800 feet and your lease earns an ...

Office of the Federal Register, 2010

10 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «SIDETRACK»

Find out what the national and international press are talking about and how the term sidetrack is used in the context of the following news items.

MLB: Rays sidetrack O's in the 8th

MLB: Rays sidetrack O's in the 8th. July 25, 2015 Last updated: Saturday, July 25, 2015, 1:21 AM. FROM NEWS SERVICE REPORTS |. The Record. Print. «NorthJersey.com, Jul 15»

Trading Places: Democrats Thwart Obama, Sidetrack TPP

Trading Places: Democrats Thwart Obama, Sidetrack TPP. Also: Scott Walker knows what women want, and it's not Hillary Clinton (or Carly Fiorina). President ... «U.S. News & World Report, Jun 15»

Arizona votes help sidetrack Obama trade legislation

Democratic Arizona House members rejected a last-minute, personal plea from President Barack Obama and voted Friday to sidetrack trade legislation. «azcentral.com, Jun 15»

COOL supporters mount last-ditch effort to sidetrack repeal

WASHINGTON, June 8, 2015 - As the House of Representatives readies a vote to repeal mandatory country-of-origin labeling (COOL), supporters of the ... «Agri-Pulse, Jun 15»

Bar fire near Garden Corners

Around 4:15 a.m., a neighbor knocked on the door of Sidetrack's owner Mona Nelson's home to tell her the roof of Sidetracks was smoking. Nelson went to ... «UpperMichigansSource.com, Apr 15»

NC lawmakers sidetrack bid to legalize medical marijuana

RALEIGH, N.C. (AP) - North Carolina legislators are stopping efforts to legalize marijuana to treat medical conditions. A state House committee voted ... «13newsnow.com, Mar 15»

Don't Let Obama proposals sidetrack your financial planning

The White House has issued a flurry of proposals since early 2014, many aimed at scaling back provisions that benefit those with higher incomes and greater ... «MarketWatch, Mar 15»

Don't Let Obama Proposals Sidetrack Financial Planning

The White House has issued a flurry of proposals since early 2014, many aimed at scaling back provisions that benefit those with higher incomes and greater ... «Wall Street Journal, Mar 15»

FX Energy Reports Results of Sidetrack at Zaniemysl-3k Well

The sidetrack operation was undertaken because the reservoir was interpreted to be at least 10 meters higher in the new target location than at the original ... «PR Newswire, Mar 15»

Oil trains sidetrack states

Albany. When it comes to regulating oil trains, states don't have a lot of power. Activists concerned about the dangers the trains pose in Albany have learned that ... «Albany Times Union, Feb 15»