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siding

[ sahy-ding ]

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noun

a short railroad track, opening onto a main track at one or both ends, on which one of two meeting trains is switched until the other has passed.
any of several varieties of weatherproof facing for frame buildings, composed of pieces attached separately as shingles, plain or shaped boards, or of various units of sheet metal or various types of composition materials.

siding

/ ˈsaɪdɪŋ /

a short stretch of railway track connected to a main line, used for storing rolling stock or to enable trains on the same line to pass
a short railway line giving access to the main line for freight from a factory, mine, quarry, etc
material attached to the outside of a building to make it weatherproof

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Origin of siding¹

First recorded in 1595–1605; side ¹ + -ing ¹

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On the far side I could see an austere-looking square building, about four floors high, sturdy, with silver siding and few windows.

Be careful, read all the instructions, and make sure you know what you’re doing before putting holes in the aluminum siding.

Siding with Obama on anything, no matter how sensical, is a risky move for a would-be Republican presidential candidate.

As the rebels departed, they blew up an 81-car munitions train stranded on a siding.

The instrument is attached to the Anglo-Australian Telescope at the Siding Spring Observatory, northwest of Sydney, Australia.

It is hard to fathom siding with al-Qaeda in Syria, but then again, we arguably did something similar in Iraq.

He accused her of siding with “Denver Democrats” to “make energy rates higher in rural areas.”

And they'd have to get definite word about the extension of a railroad siding for the lading purposes, too.

Before you could count ten they had made a flying switch with the single car, kicking it in on the siding.

That siding isn't in any such shape that the Fast Mail could get by without seeing a 'meet' train on the side-track, is it?

That siding is part of an old 'Y' at the mouth of a gulch that runs back into the mountains for maybe a dozen miles or so.

Even you are siding with grandmother and suspecting me of breaking my word.

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