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siding

noun
/ˈsaɪdɪŋ/

Etymology

From side + -ing (“derivative noun, having the quality of”).

  1. derived from *sēy-✻ — “to send, throw, drop, sow, deposit”
  2. inherited from *sīdaz✻ — “drooping, hanging, low, excessive, extra”
  3. inherited from *sīd✻
  4. inherited from sīd — “wide, broad, spacious, ample, extensive, vast, far-reaching”
  5. inherited from side
  6. suffixed as siding — “side + ing”

Definitions

  1. 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.

  2. present participle and gerund of side

    • Whenever he hears an argument, he can't help siding with one party or the other.

  3. A second, relatively short length of track just to the side of a railroad track, joined…

    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).

    • They slept where they could, sometimes in an empty truck on a siding near the station, sometimes in a cart behind a warehouse; [...]
    • 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.

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

A definitional loop anchored at siding. Each word in the ring is defined by the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself. Scroll to it and watch.

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A definitional loop anchored at siding. Each word in the ring appears in the definition of the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself.

7 hops · closes at siding

curated · pre-corpus. live cycle detection across the full graph is the next major milestone.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA