siding
siding Lexical Profile
siding Game Scores & Validity
• noun
North American Material made of wood, metal, vinyl, or fiber cement used to cover, protect, and weatherproof the exterior walls of a house or other building.
"The homeowners decided to replace the weathered wooden boards with durable vinyl siding."
A short stretch of railroad track connected to a main line by switches, used for parking trains, loading freight, or enabling trains on the same line to pass one another.
"The slow freight train pulled onto a siding so the express passenger service could pass."
• Rhymes for siding
Word Origin & Etymology
Derived from the verb 'side' (from Old English 'side', meaning 'flank or lengthwise surface') combined with the suffix '-ing'. The architectural sense referring to exterior wall covering emerged in North America in the early 19th century, followed shortly by the railway sense in the 1820s.