• IPA: /ˈsaɪdɪŋ/

From side + -ing.

siding

1. (North America) 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.

• cladding (UK, NZ, AU)

• French: bardage
• German: Außenverkleidung, Gebäudeverkleidung, Hausverkleidung, Fassadenverkleidung, Verkleidung
• Portuguese: tapume, tabique
• Spanish: revestimiento exterior

1. Present participle and gerund of side

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

• German: zu jemandem halten

From side + -ing.

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; [...]

• trackside

• French: voie de garage
• German: Nebengleis, Abstellgleis
• Spanish: via muerta