siding
Pronunciation
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Pronunciation
- IPA: /ˈsaɪdɪŋ/
siding
- (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
- Present participle and gerund of side
- Whenever he hears an argument, he can't help siding with one party or the other.
siding (plural sidings)
(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; [...]
- French: voie de garage
- German: Nebengleis, Abstellgleis
- Spanish: via muerta
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