Siding vs Biding - What's the difference?
siding | biding |
(label) A building material which covers and protects the sides of a house or other building.
(rail transport) 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 unloading freight, or to allow two trains on a same track to meet (opposite directions) or pass (same direction).
* 1919 ,
An awaiting; expectation.
*2007 , Debrena Jackson Gandy, All the Joy You Can Stand :
(archaic) Residence; habitation
* Hakluyt
*1776 , Nicholas Rowe, Jane Shore :
As nouns the difference between siding and biding
is that siding is (label) a building material which covers and protects the sides of a house or other building or siding can be (rail transport) 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 unloading freight, or to allow two trains on a same track to meet (opposite directions) or pass (same direction) while biding is an awaiting; expectation.As verbs the difference between siding and biding
is that siding is while biding is .siding
English
Etymology 1
.Noun
(en noun)- Ugh. If there's one thing I can't stand it's cheesy vinyl siding .
Synonyms
* cladding (UK)Etymology 2
Verb
(head)- Whenever he hears an argument, he can't help siding with one party or the other.
Etymology 3
.Noun
(en noun)- They slept where they could, sometimes in an empty truck on a siding near the station, sometimes in a cart behind a warehouse; [...]
Synonyms
(railroad side track) railroad siding, sidetrack, lay-by (UK)biding
English
Etymology 1
From (etyl) biding, bydyng, equivalent to .Noun
(en noun)- I was biding time. And my biding was making me bitter.
- They brought us to their bidings about two miles from the harbour.
- At Antwerp has my constant biding been, [...]