siding

• POS: Noun
• HYPHEN: sid=ing

CIDE DICTIONARY

siding, n. 

•  Attaching one's self to a party.  [1913 Webster]
•  A side track, as a railroad; a turnout.  [1913 Webster]
•  The covering of the outside wall of a frame house, whether made of weatherboards, vertical boarding with cleats, shingles, or the like.  [1913 Webster]
•  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.  [1913 Webster]

OXFORD DICTIONARY

siding, n.
1 a short track at the side of and opening on to a railway line, used for shunting trains.
2 US cladding material for the outside of a building.

THESAURUS

siding

L, adobe, ashlar, bank, beam, billet, board, boarding, border, branch, brick, bricks and mortar, broadside, cable railway, cement, cheek, chop, clapboard, clinker, coast, cog railway, concrete, cord, cordwood, covering materials, deal, driftwood, el, electric railway, elevated, elevated railway, embankment, feeder, feeder line, ferroconcrete, firebrick, firewood, flag, flagstone, flank, flooring, gravity-operated railway, hand, handedness, hardwood, haunch, hip, horse railway, jowl, junction, laterality, lath, lath and plaster, lathing, lathwork, light railroad, line, log, lumber, main line, many-sidedness, masonry, metro, monorail, mortar, multilaterality, panelboard, paneling, panelwork, pavement, paving, paving material, plank, planking, plasters, plyboard, plywood, pole, post, prestressed concrete, profile, puncheon, quarter, rack railway, rack-and-pinion railway, rail, rail line, railroad, railway, roadbed, roadway, roofage, roofing, shake, sheathing, sheathing board, sheeting, shingle, shore, side, sideboard, sidetrack, slab, slat, softwood, splat, stave, stick, stick of wood, stone, stovewood, street railway, streetcar line, subway, switchback, temple, terminal, terminus, three-by-four, tile, tiling, timber, timbering, timberwork, track, tram, tramline, trestle, trolley line, trunk, trunk line, tube, turnout, two-by-four, underground, unilaterality, walling, weatherboard, wood