Meaning

2 senses
  1. (Canada, US, countable, uncountable)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.

    Außenverkleidung, Gebäudeverkleidung, Hausverkleidung

    material applied to the outside of a building to make it weatherproof

  2. 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).

    Nebengleis, Abstellgleis

    a short stretch of railroad track used to store rolling stock or enable trains on the same line to pass

Examples

12 sentences
  1. I'm siding with Tom.

    Я на боці Тома. — shanghainese

    ruЯ на стороне Тома. — marafon

  2. Why are you siding with Tom?

    ruПочему ты встаёшь на сторону Тома? — Wezel

    deWarum stellst du dich auf Toms Seite? — Pfirsichbaeumchen

  3. Why are you siding with her?

    deWarum stellst du dich auf ihre Seite? — Pfirsichbaeumchen

  4. Why are you siding with him?

    deWarum schließt du dich ihm an? — mrtaistoi

  5. Why are you siding with them?

Translations

5 languages
Deutsch
By meaning 2
material to cover the sides of a building:
side track:

Forms

plural: sidings
Singularsiding
Pluralsidings

regular

Synonyms

4 synonyms
Close in meaning
  • a short stretch of railroad track used to store rolling stock or enable trains on the same line to pass:railroad sidingturnoutsidetrack

Word family

6 related words

See also

neighbours in the dictionary

Dictionary text adapted from Wiktionary (Wiktionary contributors, CC BY-SA 4.0) and Open English WordNet / Princeton WordNet (CC BY 4.0, WordNet License); shared under CC BY-SA 4.0. Example sentences and recordings are credited where they appear.

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