siding
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English [edit]
Noun [edit]
siding (plural sidings)
- A building material which covers and protects the sides of a house or other building (called cladding in the UK).
- Ugh. If there's one thing I can't stand it's cheesy vinyl siding.
- (rail transport) A second, relatively short length of track just to the side of a railroad track, joined to the main track by switches at one or both ends, used either for unloading freight, or to allow two trains on a same track to meet (opposite directions) or pass (same direction).
- 1919, W. Somerset Maugham, The Moon and Sixpence, chapter 47
- They slept where they could, sometimes in an empty truck on a siding near the station, sometimes in a cart behind a warehouse; [...]
- 1919, W. Somerset Maugham, The Moon and Sixpence, chapter 47
Synonyms [edit]
(railroad side track): railroad siding, sidetrack, lay-by (UK)
Verb [edit]
siding
- Present participle of side.
- Whenever he hears an argument, he can't help siding with one party or the other.
