Sekirov Dictionary

shingle

/ˈʃɪŋ.ɡəl/

noun 8
verb 5
forms 3
phrases 2

noun8

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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 — 1760
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Small, smooth pebbles, as found on a beach.
- And naked shingles of the world. — 1867
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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. — 1961
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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. — 2016
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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. — 1997
A punitive strap such as a belt.
Any paddle used for corporal punishment.
A rectangular piece of steel obtained by means of a shingling process involving hammering of puddled steel.

verb5

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.
To hammer and squeeze material in order to expel cinder and impurities from it, as in metallurgy.
To beat with a shingle.

forms

shingled · shingling · shingles

Phrases with shingle

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