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Verb
/ˈsīdˌtrak/,
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sidetracking, present participle; sidetracks, 3rd person singular present; sidetracked, past participle; sidetracked, past tense;
  1. Cause (someone) to be distracted from an immediate or important issue
    • - he does not let himself get sidetracked by fads and trends
  2. Divert (a project or debate) away from a central issue or previously determined plan
    • - the effort at reform has been sidetracked for years
  3. Direct (a train) onto a branch line or siding

  4. Divert (a well or borehole) to reach a productive deposit or to avoid an obstruction

Noun
  1. A minor path or track

  2. A railroad branch line or siding

  3. A well or borehole that runs partly to one side of the original line of drilling

  1. siding: a short stretch of railroad track used to store rolling stock or enable trains on the same line to pass
  2. wander from a direct or straight course
  3. A sidetrack is a railroad track other than siding that is auxiliary to the main track. The word is also used as a verb (without object) 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 ...
  4. (Sidetracked (film)) Sidetracked is a 1916 silent comedy film featuring Oliver Hardy.
  5. (Sidetracked (La Roux album)) In July 2010, La Roux curated and mixed the latest volume of Sidetracked, a compilation series from Renaissance that allows artists from the electronic field a free rein to showcase their musical interests. ...
  6. (Sidetracked (novel)) Sidetracked (first published as Villospår in 1995) is a crime novel by Swedish author Henning Mankell, the fifth in his Kurt Wallander series.
  7. (Side-tracking) The drilling of a new path from an existing well bore. Side-tracks are utilised if technical problems have been encountered in the initial well, or alternatively to further appraise a reservoir without drilling a second well.
  8. (Sidetracking) The operation of deviating a well around a fish.
  9. (sidetracking) Avoiding stimulus cues which produce undesirable responses (e.g., staying away from the bad crowd; moving to start a new life).
  10. to drill a secondary wellbore away from the original wellbore, usually to bypass a damaged section of the original wellbore.
  11. apartadero, desvío, vía apartadera o derivada o lateral, (en México) ladero; to sidetrack, desviar. apartar
  12. a section of a well drilled on a curve to bypass debris or other obstructions
  13. The player must guide a metal pole between 2 sets of parallel bars without letting the rod touch the bars. On one side, the bars are ascending while on the opposite side, the bars are descending. Using the Simplify widened the vertical gaps between the poles by 20%. ...
  14. To drill around broken drill pipe or casing that has become permanently lodged in the hole .