shingle
/ˈʃɪŋ.ɡəl/
Frequency: Zipf frequency 2.98 in modern English
Meaning
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.
noun
A rectangular piece of steel obtained by means of a shingling process involving hammering of puddled steel.
noun
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).
noun
A word-based n-gram.
verb
To cut, as hair, so that the ends are evenly exposed all over the head, like shingles on a roof.
Transitive verb
verb
To increase the storage density of (a hard disk) by writing tracks that partially overlap.
Transitive verb
verb
To hammer and squeeze material in order to expel cinder and impurities from it, as in metallurgy.
Transitive verb
Example Sentences
- "I reached St. Asaph, a Bishop's See, where there is a very poor Cathedral Church, covered with Shingles or Tiles"
- "He [...] hung a shingle as a barber."
- "When [these attorneys] were born, in the early decades of the 19th century, being a lawyer meant putting out a shingle and representing your neighbors."
- "In the second phase, we produce a list of all the shingles and the documents they appear in, sorted by shingle value."
- "And naked shingles of the world."
- "You need to excavate and remove the topsoil, line the subsoil with a geotextile, then lay and compact hardcore. Follow this with a layer of compacted "hoggin" – compacted clay, gravel and sand. This is then sprayed with hot bitumen, and has a layer of pea shingle rolled into it."
Etymology
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Word Breakdown
Regional Pronunciation
- American English: /ˈʃɪŋ.ɡəl/
- British English: /ˈʃɪŋ.ɡəl/