cladding

cladding

English

Etymology

From clad +‎ -ing. Compare clothing, ultimately from the same source.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈklædɪŋ/

• Audio (southern England)

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• Rhymes: -ædɪŋ

Noun

cladding (countable and uncountable, plural claddings)

1. (rare) Clothing; clothes.
2. Any hard coating, bonded onto the outside of something to add protection, such as the plastic sheath around an optical fibre.
3. (construction) A weatherproof, insulating or decorative covering fixed to the outside of a building.

   Synonym: (US) siding

Translations

an outside building covering

Bulgarian: облицо́вка (bg) f (oblicóvka), обши́вка (bg) f (obšívka) Chinese: Mandarin: please add this translation if you can Finnish: verhous German: Verkleidung (de) f Maori: tūpuni Norwegian: Bokmål: kledning (no) m or f Russian: обши́вка (ru) f (obšívka) Spanish: revestimiento (es) m

Verb

cladding

1. present participle of clad