Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *seh₁-der.
Proto-Germanic *sīdaz
Proto-Germanic *sīdǭ
Old English sīde
Middle English side
English side
English -ing
English siding
From side + -ing (“material, collection”).
Meanings
(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.
fo klædningur (material to cover the sides of a building) · fi verhous (material to cover the sides of a building) · de Außenverkleidung (material to cover the sides of a building) · es revestimiento exterior (material to cover the sides of a building) · de Verkleidung (material to cover the sides of a building) · de Gebäudeverkleidung (material to cover the sides of a building) · de Fassadenverkleidung (material to cover the sides of a building) · sv brädfodring (material to cover the sides of a building) · de Hausverkleidung (material to cover the sides of a building) · pt tapume (material to cover the sides of a building) · fr bardage (material to cover the sides of a building) · sv väggpanel (material to cover the sides of a building) · pt tabique (material to cover the sides of a building)
Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *seh₁-der.
Proto-Germanic *sīdaz
Proto-Germanic *sīdǭ
Old English sīde
Middle English side
English side
English -ing
English siding
From side + -ing (“derivative noun, having the quality of”).
Meanings
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).
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:
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: