siding

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Etymology 1

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From side +‎ -ing (material, collection).

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siding (countable and uncountable, plural sidings)

  1. (Canada, US) A building material which covers and protects the sides of a house or other building.
    Ugh. If there's one thing I can't stand it's cheesy vinyl siding.
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siding

  1. present participle and gerund of side
    Whenever he hears an argument, he can't help siding with one party or the other.
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Etymology 3

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From side +‎ -ing (derivative noun, having the quality of).

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siding (plural sidings)

  1. (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 loading or unloading freight, storing trains or other rail vehicles; or to allow two trains on a same track to meet (opposite directions) or pass (same direction) (the latter sense is probably an American definition).
    • 1919, W[illiam] Somerset Maugham, “chapter 47”, in The Moon and Sixpence, [New York, N.Y.]: Grosset & Dunlap Publishers [], →OCLC:
      They slept where they could, sometimes in an empty truck on a siding near the station, sometimes in a cart behind a warehouse; [...]
    • December 15 2022, Samanth Subramanian, “Dismantling Sellafield: the epic task of shutting down a nuclear site”, in The Guardian[1]:
      Laid out over six square kilometres, Sellafield is like a small town, with nearly a thousand buildings, its own roads and even a rail siding – all owned by the government, and requiring security clearance to visit.
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(railroad side track): railroad siding, sidetrack, lay-by (UK)

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siding

  1. (anatomy) mole