Siding

//ˈsaɪdɪŋ// noun, verb

noun, verb ·Moderate ·High school level

Definitions

Noun
  1. 1
    A building material which covers and protects the sides of a house or other building. Canada, US, countable, uncountable

    "Ugh. If there's one thing I can't stand it's cheesy vinyl siding."

  2. 2
    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).

    "They slept where they could, sometimes in an empty truck on a siding near the station, sometimes in a cart behind a warehouse; [...]"

  3. 3
    a short stretch of railroad track used to store rolling stock or enable trains on the same line to pass wordnet
  4. 4
    material applied to the outside of a building to make it weatherproof wordnet
Verb
  1. 1
    present participle and gerund of side form-of, gerund, participle, present

    "Whenever he hears an argument, he can't help siding with one party or the other."

Synonyms

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Example

More examples

"Comet Siding Spring was discovered in 2013 by astronomers at the Siding Spring Observatory in Australia."

Etymology

Etymology 1

From side + -ing (“material, collection”).

Etymology 2

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

Related phrases

private sidingreversing sidingstabling siding

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