shingle
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shingle¹
- /ˈʃɪŋ.ɡəl/ US, UK
Rhymes with -ɪŋɡəl
Where it comes from
From Middle English shyngel, alteration of Old English sċindel, from Proto-West Germanic *skindulā, borrowed from Late Latin scindula, from Latin scandula, from Proto-Indo-European *sked- (“to split, scatter”), from *sek- (“to cut”). Doublet of shindle.
noun shingles · shindle
- A small, thin piece of building material, often with one end thicker than the other, for laying in overlapping rows as a covering for the roof or sides of a building. I reached St. Asaph, a Bishop's See, where there is a very poor Cathedral Church, covered with Shingles or Tiles
- A rectangular piece of steel obtained by means of a shingling process involving hammering of puddled steel.
- A small signboard designating a professional office; this may be both a physical signboard or a metaphoric term for a small production company (a production shingle). He [...] hung a shingle as a barber.
- A word-based n-gram. In the second phase, we produce a list of all the shingles and the documents they appear in, sorted by shingle value.
verb shingles · shingling · shingled · shindle
- To cover with small, thin pieces of building material, with shingles.
- To cut, as hair, so that the ends are evenly exposed all over the head, like shingles on a roof.
- To increase the storage density of (a hard disk) by writing tracks that partially overlap.
shingle²
- /ˈʃɪŋ.ɡəl/ US, UK
Rhymes with -ɪŋɡəl
Where it comes from
From dialectal French chingler (“to strap, whip”), from Latin cingula (“girt, belt”), from cingere (“to girt”).
verb shingles · shingling · shingled
- To hammer and squeeze material in order to expel cinder and impurities from it, as in metallurgy.
- To beat with a shingle.
noun shingles
- A punitive strap such as a belt.
- Any paddle used for corporal punishment.
shingle³
- /ˈʃɪŋ.ɡəl/ US, UK
Rhymes with -ɪŋɡəl
Where it comes from
From Middle English shingel, chingel, singel (“gravel, pebbles”), cognate with Norwegian Bokmål singel (“pebble(s)”), Norwegian Nynorsk singel (“pebble(s)”), and North Frisian singel (“gravel”), imitative of the sound of water running over such pebbles.
noun shingles
- Small, smooth pebbles, as found on a beach. And naked shingles of the world.
- A beach or other shore covered with loose, smooth pebbles. Underneath a black cliff where the incoming tide smashed on the shingle, they stumbled upon the mail hood of Hrothgar's murdered vassal.
Thesaurus
Closest in meaning: shake, shindle, shive, clapboard, feathering strip, starter strip, sarking, shillet, slate, chantlate, thatching, éboulement, shide, sheeting, shitlet, rooftile
Translations
Every language
noun small, thin piece of building material
| Español | tablilla |
|---|---|
| 日本語 | 杮板, 杮 |
| Português | telha |
| Français | bardeau |
| Deutsch | Schindel |
| Italiano | scandola |
| Română | șindrilă, draniță |
| Русский | дра́нка dránka, ши́ндель šíndelʹ |
noun small signboard designating a professional office
| Deutsch | Firmenschild |
|---|---|
| Italiano | targa |
verb to cover with shingles (building material)
| Español | techar |
|---|---|
| Português | telhar, entelhar |
| Français | barder |
| Deutsch | mit Schindeln decken |
| Italiano | ricoprire con tegole |
| Română | șindrili |
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