Siding vs Sidling - What's the difference?
siding | sidling |
(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 ,
The motion of one who sidles.
* (Rudyard Kipling), The Centaurs
As nouns the difference between siding and sidling
is that siding is a building material which covers and protects the sides of a house or other building while sidling is the motion of one who sidles.As verbs the difference between siding and sidling
is that siding is present participle of lang=en while sidling is present participle of lang=en.As an adjective sidling is
an alternative spelling of lang=en.As an adverb sidling is
an alternative spelling of lang=en.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)sidling
English
Etymology 1
Adjective
(head)Adverb
(head)Etymology 2
Cognate with the above (form of sidle, from (etyl) sidlyng, from which also directly sidling , above).Verb
(head)Noun
(en noun)- Starring and shying at straws, with sidlings and plungings.