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Definitions

Noun

1. 1
   Clothing; clothes. countable, rare, uncountable
2. 2
   a protective covering that protects the outside of a building wordnet
3. 3
   Any hard coating, bonded onto the outside of something to add protection, such as the plastic sheath around an optical fibre. countable, uncountable
4. 4
   A weatherproof, insulating or decorative covering fixed to the outside of a building. countable, uncountable

Verb

1. 1
   present participle and gerund of clad form-of, gerund, participle, present

Synonyms

All synonyms

facingfacingsiding

Etymology

From clad + -ing. Compare clothing, ultimately from the same source.

Related phrases

optical fibre

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