Weatherboarding

Definition: Weatherboarding

Weatherboarding

Noun

1. A long thin board with one edge thicker than the other; used as siding by lapping one board over the board below.

Date "weatherboarding" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1884. (references)

Domain	Definitions
Building & Civil Engineering	A cladding consisting of overlapping horizontal boarding. Source: European Union. (references)
	A plain wooden moulding fixed to the bottom rail of an external door to divert water from the threshold. Source: European Union. (references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Synonyms: Weatherboarding

Synonyms: clapboard (n), weatherboard (n). (additional references)

Synonyms by domain: weatherboard (building & civil engineering, personal care & hotelsbuilding & civil engineering, industry), weather-board (building & civil engineering, personal care & hotelsbuilding & civil engineering, industry).

"Weatherboarding" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 80.00% of the time. "Weatherboarding" is used about 5 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted)

Parts of Speech	Percent	Usage per 100 Million Words	Rank in English
Noun (singular)	80%	4	175,879
Lexical Verb (-ing form)	20%	1	339,140
Total	100.00%	5	N/A

Language		Translations for "weatherboarding"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.
Chinese		封檐 (Weatherboard, Weather-board). (various references)

Danish		vandbræt (weatherboard), klinkbeklædning (clapboard, siding, weatherboard). (various references)

Dutch		potdekselen (clapboard, clapboard cladding, overlapped boarding, siding, weather boarding, weatherboard). (various references)

Finnish		vinovuorilaudoitus (clapboard, siding, weatherboard), vinovuori (clapboard, siding, weatherboard), vesilista (weatherboard), limilaudoitus (clapboard, siding, weatherboard). (various references)

French		revêtement mural à clins (weatherboard), rejet d'eau (weatherboard). (various references)

German		Wetterschenkel (weatherboard), Stülpschalung (clapboard, clapboard cladding, overlapped boarding, siding, weather boarding, weatherboard). (various references)

Greek		νεροχύτης (sink). (various references)

Italian		rivestimento a tavole orizzontali embriciate (clapboard, siding, weatherboard), asse di sgrondo (weatherboard). (various references)

Pig Latin		eatherboardingway

Portuguese		lambrim em escama (clapboard, siding, weatherboard), borracha (caoutchouc, rubber). (various references)

Spanish		vierteaguas (boot, cross ditch, grip, gutter, let, water bar, weatherboard), forros para paredes (clapboard, siding, weatherboard). (various references)

Swedish		fjällpanel (clapboard). (various references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

Derivations
	Words beginning with "weatherboarding": weatherboardings. (additional references)
Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

Words rhyming with "weatherboarding" (pronounced 'Weath"er*board`ing'): Aforegoing, Almsgiving, Backbiting, Batfowling, Birdcatching, Bird's-nesting, Bluestocking, Bookbinding, Bookkeeping, Bookselling, Boxhauling, Bricklaying, Broadspreading, Bushfighting, Bushwhacking, By-drinking, By-turning, Cabinetmaking, Cat-harping, Cheeseparing, Childbearing, Churchgoing, Clear-seeing, Clear-shining, Costeaning, Cowleeching, Crib-biting, Cross-reading, Cross-tining, Cross-vaulting, Deerstalking, Findfaulting, Fly-catching, Forespeaking, forthcoming, Forthputing, Fox-hunting, free-living, Free-milling, freethinking, Gaingiving, Glass-gazing, god-fearing, good-looking, Handwriting, haymaking, heartbreaking, heartrending, high-sounding, Home-coming. (additional references)

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams
	Words within the letters "a-a-b-d-e-e-g-h-i-n-o-r-r-t-w"
	-3 letters: weatherboard.
	-4 letters: graniteware, harbingered, harebrained, ironhearted, rethreading.
	-5 letters: aberration, arbitraged, baronetage, bighearted, brightened, brightener, brothering, deaerating, deaeration, denigrator, dewatering, handbarrow, headwaiter, hibernated, hibernator, inbreathed, ingathered, intergrade, neighbored, reboarding, reobtained, retreading, threadbare, waterborne, weathering, whitebeard, whiteboard.
	Words containing the letters "a-a-b-d-e-e-g-h-i-n-o-r-r-t-w"
	+1 letter: weatherboardings.
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