siding
/ˈsaɪdɪŋ/
siding noun: a building material which covers and protects the sides of a house or other building. Also the present participle and gerund of side.
Noun (1)
siding (countable and uncountable, plural sidings)
Noun (2)
siding (plural sidings)
- 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; [...]1919, W[illiam] Somerset Maugham, “chapter 47”, in The Moon and Sixpence, [New York, N.Y.]: Grosset & Dunlap Publishers […], →OCLC
- Laid out over six square kilometres, Sellafield is like a small town, with nearly a thousand buildings, its own roads and even a rail siding – all owned by the government, and requiring security clearance to visit.December 15 2022, Samanth Subramanian, “Dismantling Sellafield: the epic task of shutting down a nuclear site”, in The Guardian
Also used as
siding is also the present participle and gerund of side.
siding meaning in Hindi, Tamil, Marathi and Urdu
siding in Hindi
- साइडिंग, साईडिंग, साइडिंग करना
siding in Tamil
- சைடிங்
siding in Marathi
- साईडिंग
siding in Urdu
- سائڈنگ, سائیڈنگ, سائڈنگ کرنا
More languagesFewer languages
- siding in Bengali
- সাইডিং
- siding in Telugu
- సైడింగ్
- siding in Malayalam
- സൈഡിംഗ്, സൈഡിങ്, സൈഡിംഗ് ചെയ്യാൻ
- siding in Kannada
- ಸೈಡಿಂಗ್, ಸೈಡಿಂಗು
- siding in Punjabi
- ਸਾਈਡਿੰਗ, ਸਾਇਡਿੰਗ, ਸਾਈਡਿੰਗ ਕਰਨ ਲਈ
- siding in Gujarati
- સાઇડિંગ, સાઈડિંગ
- siding in Odia
- ସାଇଡିଂ, ସାଇଡ଼ିଂ, ସାଇଡିଙ୍ଗ
- siding in Nepali
- साइडिङ, साइडिङ्ग, साइडिंग
- siding in Indonesian
- jalur sayap
Examples of siding in a sentence
- I got a cold call in the middle of dinner from someone trying to sell roofing and siding because they're allegedly working in my area this week.
- During his home’s construction, Snyder installed fireproof roofing, siding and eaves.
- Additionally, there are new offices and mess rooms, stabling sidings, and a new carriage washing plant.
Synonyms of siding
Forms of siding
| plural | sidings |
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Origin of siding
From side + -ing (“material, collection”).
From side + -ing (“derivative noun, having the quality of”).
Words formed from siding
Phrases with siding
Words that rhyme with siding
- riding
- confiding
- abiding
- biding
- gliding
- guiding
- hiding
- paragliding
- sliding
- striding
- backsliding
- bestriding
31 more rhymesFewer rhymes
- betiding
- blindsiding
- briding
- broadsiding
- chiding
- coinciding
- colliding
- coresiding
- deciding
- deriding
- disciding
- dividing
- eliding
- griding
- hagriding
- joyriding
- misguiding
- niding
- nondividing
- outriding
- overriding
- overstriding
- peroxiding
- presiding
- priding
- providing
- redeciding
- redividing
- residing
- subsiding
- suiciding
Questions about siding
- What does siding mean?
- Siding means a building material which covers and protects the sides of a house or other building.
- What is siding in Hindi?
- Siding in Hindi is साइडिंग, साईडिंग, साइडिंग करना. See Siding meaning in Hindi.
- What part of speech is siding?
- Siding is a noun.
- How do you pronounce siding?
- Siding is pronounced /ˈsaɪdɪŋ/.
- What is the plural of siding?
- The plural of siding is sidings.
Words near siding in the dictionary
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Adapted from Wiktionary: siding (page history and authors); siding (Hindi, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); siding (Tamil, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); siding (Marathi, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); siding (Urdu, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); siding (Bengali, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); siding (Telugu, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); siding (Malayalam, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); siding (Kannada, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); siding (Punjabi, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); siding (Gujarati, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); siding (Odia, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); siding (Nepali, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.
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