Siding
['saɪdɪŋ]
解釋/意思:
(noun.) a short stretch of railroad track used to store rolling stock or enable trains on the same line to pass.
(noun.) material applied to the outside of a building to make it weatherproof.
安吉洛手打--From WordNet
解釋/意思:
(p. pr.& vb. n.) of Side
(n.) Attaching one's self to a party.
(n.) A side track, as a railroad; a turnout.
(n.) The covering of the outside wall of a frame house, whether made of weatherboards, vertical boarding with cleats, shingles, or the like.
(n.) 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.
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例句/造句/用法:
- For siding, sheathing, sub-flooring, shingles, window casings and frames, redwood is much used, because of its resistance to decay, both from contact with moisture or dry rot. 佚名. 神奇的知識之書.
- Over this paper place any kind of boards that the fancy of the builder may dictate, as clapboards, shiplap, or drop-siding. 威廉K.大衛. 智者、化學家和偉大醫生的秘密.
- We have never seen ice better preserved through a long and hot summer than in a board shanty with only one thickness of siding, and that full of cracks and crevices. 威廉K.大衛. 智者、化學家和偉大醫生的秘密.
- The first engine, with the carriage containing the Duke of Wellington, had been stopped on a siding so that the Duke might review the other trains. 魯伯特·薩金特·荷蘭. 歷史性發明.
- This road also had some features of conventional railroads, such as sidings, turn-tables, freight platform, and car-house. 弗蘭克·路易斯·戴爾. 愛迪生的生平和發明.
- The Southern Pacific Company today has in service in some of its sidings redwood ties that were put down under its rails fifty-five years ago. 佚名. 神奇的知識之書.
- At the end of the year 1898 there were in use in the United States 36,746 locomotives, 1,318,700 cars, and the mileage in tracks, including second track and sidings, was 245,238. Edward W. Byrn. 十九世紀發明進展.
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