Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Sideways; to one side.
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- noun Plural form of
siding .
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Examples
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This road also had some features of conventional railroads, such as sidings, turn-tables, freight platform, and car-house.
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This road also had some features of conventional railroads, such as sidings, turn-tables, freight platform, and car-house.
Edison, His Life and Inventions Frank Lewis Dyer 1905
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Some of those tracks, known as "sidings," currently are impassable, forcing trains to pull over, stop, back up and then resume their journey.
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At 90 to 110 mph, the trains could share the same track as freight lines and would only need small changes such as sidings to allow the trains to pass.
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At 90 to 110 mph, the trains could share the same track as freight lines and would only need small changes such as sidings to allow the trains to pass.
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At 90 to 110 mph, the trains could share the same track as freight lines and would only need small changes such as sidings to allow the trains to pass.
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The baskets were then carried to one of the nearby railroad sidings and emptied into railroad hopper cars.
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The author Bill Bryson and the Campaign to Protect Rural England CPRE are spearheading a campaign to force Network Rail and the train operators to clean up their stations, sidings and approaches, as they are legally obliged to do.
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The pre-recession gravy train has certainly got shunted into the sidings.
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"There will be no chimneys, no cooling towers, no coal trucks, no railway sidings, no ash disposal plant, and no noise going on outside the building at all".
From the archive, 30 January 1957: World's largest nuclear power station for Scotland 2012
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