siding

Plural: sidings

Noun

• Material, such as wood or vinyl, used to cover the exterior walls.
• a short stretch of railroad track used to store rolling stock or enable trains on the same line to pass
• material applied to the outside of a building to make it weatherproof
• A building material which covers and protects the sides of a house or other building.
• 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).

Verb

• take sides for or against; ; m siding against the current candidate"
• present participle and gerund of side

Examples

• Ugh. If there's one thing I can't stand it's cheesy vinyl siding.
• Whenever he hears an argument, he can't help siding with one party or the other.
• With the SIDING of the board already covered, new plays were getting harder to find.

Synonyms

railroad siding, side, sidetrack, turnout, cladding

Related Words

trackside