siding
- noun
- /ˈsaɪdɪŋ/
- Specialized
- Memere and I regarded the new house, its vinyl siding and fresh blacktop cooling with the dusk.
- bamboo siding
- exterior siding
- aluminum siding
But yeah, so you can, you know, use like barn siding and stuff and people will cut them down.
- But yeah, so you can, you know, use like barn siding and stuff and people will cut them down.
Examples
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Sheathing and a little bit of some cedar siding in the front.
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Uncle Roy had built a modest-sized two-story home with light gray siding and Wedgwood blue shutters.
Fiction book (2001) -
So that will contrast the siding really well too.
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When he started the saw to cut the siding, I worried that his hand would slip.
Fiction book (1998) -
The aluminum siding outside, I put on.
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It's a two-storey with blue siding.
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The house had yellow siding and a picture window with a toy parrot.
Fiction book (2000) -
The houses aren't painted, and the siding is falling off.
Fiction book (1996) -
The white clapboard siding was dingy in the shadows, the Wedgwood shutters seeming a dusky blue.
Fiction book (1990) -
The house was renovated with new vinyl siding that improved its appearance.
Synonyms
A hard decorative plaster that people put on outside walls
An outer layer fixed to the outside of a building to keep weather out and make it look better
A coating of plaster applied to the outside of a wall to protect and finish it
A long thin board placed overlapping others on outside walls to keep rain out
The front of a building made of bricks
A layer of material that covers a building's outside to protect or decorate it
A long thin wooden board that sits on house walls with each board overlapping the one below
A material builders use to cover and protect floors, walls, or roofs
An outer surface on a building made from shiny silver metal sheets
Antonyms
Compounds
- Specialized
A short extra track beside the main track where trains stop to let other trains pass
How Protective
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
Siding comes from the simple word side ('side' or 'outside') plus the ending -ing that turns a word into a thing. So siding is the material put on the side of a house to protect it from the weather and to make it look better.