siding Meaning, Definition & Usage

  1. noun a short stretch of railroad track used to store rolling stock or enable trains on the same line to pass
    turnout; railroad siding; sidetrack.
  2. noun material applied to the outside of a building to make it weatherproof
  3. verb take sides for or against
    side.
    • Who are you widing with?
    • I"m siding against the current candidate

WordNet


Sid"ing noun
Definitions
  1. Attaching one's self to a party.
  2. A side track, as a railroad; a turnout.
  3. (Carp.) The covering of the outside wall of a frame house, whether made of weatherboards, vertical boarding with cleats, shingles, or the like.
  4. (Shipbuilding) The thickness of a rib or timber, measured, at right angles with its side, across the curved edge; as, a timber having a siding of ten inches.

Webster 1913