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Shingle
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- 1 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"
- 2 A punitive strap such as a belt.
- 3 Small, smooth pebbles, as found on a beach. countable, uncountable
"And naked shingles of the world."
- 4 a small signboard outside the office of a lawyer or doctor, e.g. wordnet
- 5 A rectangular piece of steel obtained by means of a shingling process involving hammering of puddled steel.
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- 6 Any paddle used for corporal punishment. broadly
- 7 coarse beach gravel of small waterworn stones and pebbles (or a stretch of shore covered with such gravel) wordnet
- 8 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."
- 9 building material used as siding or roofing wordnet
- 10 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."
- 1 To cover with small, thin pieces of building material, with shingles. transitive
- 2 To hammer and squeeze material in order to expel cinder and impurities from it, as in metallurgy. transitive
- 3 cover with shingles wordnet
- 4 To cut, as hair, so that the ends are evenly exposed all over the head, like shingles on a roof. transitive
- 5 To beat with a shingle. transitive
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- 6 To increase the storage density of (a hard disk) by writing tracks that partially overlap. transitive
Etymology
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.
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.
From dialectal French chingler (“to strap, whip”), from Latin cingula (“girt, belt”), from cingere (“to girt”).
From dialectal French chingler (“to strap, whip”), from Latin cingula (“girt, belt”), from cingere (“to girt”).
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.
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