shingle
Meanings
noun
- 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.
- 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).
- A word-based n-gram.
verb
- 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.
verb
- To hammer and squeeze material in order to expel cinder and impurities from it, as in metallurgy.
- To beat with a shingle.
noun
- A punitive strap such as a belt.
- Any paddle used for corporal punishment.
noun
- Small, smooth pebbles, as found on a beach.
- A beach or other shore covered with loose, smooth pebbles.
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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.
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