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shingle
shin·gle 1 S0345500 (shĭng′gəl)n.1. A thin oblong piece of material, such as wood or slate, that is laid in overlapping rows to cover the roof or sides of a house or other building.2. Informal A small signboard, as one indicating a professional office: After passing the bar exam, she hung out her shingle.3. A woman's close-cropped haircut.v.tr. shin·gled, shin·gling, shin·gles 1. To cover (a roof or building) with shingles.2. To cut (hair) short and close to the head.
[Middle English, from Old English scindel, scingal, from Late Latin scindula, alteration of Latin scandula (influenced by scindere, to split).]
shin′gler n.
shin·gle 2 S0345500 (shĭng′gəl)n.1. Beach gravel consisting of large smooth pebbles.2. A stretch of shore or beach covered with such gravel.
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shin′gly adj.shingle (ˈʃɪŋɡəl) n1. (Building) a thin rectangular tile, esp one made of wood, that is laid with others in overlapping rows to cover a roof or a wall2. (Hairdressing & Grooming) a woman's short-cropped hairstyle3. US and Canadian a small signboard or nameplate fixed outside the office of a doctor, lawyer, etc4. a shingle short informal Austral unintelligent or mentally subnormalvb (tr) 5. (Building) to cover (a roof or a wall) with shingles6. (Hairdressing & Grooming) to cut (the hair) in a short-cropped style[C12 scingle, from Late Latin scindula a split piece of wood, from Latin scindere to split] ˈshingler n
shingle (ˈʃɪŋɡəl) n1. (Geological Science) coarse gravel, esp the pebbles found on beaches2. (Physical Geography) a place or area strewn with shingle[C16: of Scandinavian origin; compare Norwegian singl pebbles, Frisian singel gravel] ˈshingly adj
shingle (ˈʃɪŋɡəl) vb (Metallurgy) (tr) metallurgy to hammer or squeeze the slag out of (iron) after puddling in the production of wrought iron[C17: from Old French dialect chingler to whip, from chingle belt, from Latin cingula girdle; see cingulum]shin•gle1 (ˈʃɪŋ gəl)
n., v. -gled, -gling. n. 1. a thin piece of wood, slate, metal, asbestos, or the like, usu. oblong, laid in overlapping rows to cover the roofs and walls of buildings. 2. a woman's short hairstyle in which the hair is cropped close to the head from below the crown to the nape. 3. a small signboard, esp. as hung before a doctor's or lawyer's office. v.t. 4. to cover with shingles, as a roof. 5. to cut (hair) close to the head. Idioms: hang out one's shingle, to establish a professional practice, esp. in law or medicine. [1150–1200; < Medieval Latin scindula lath, shingle (Middle English -g- appar. by association with another unidentified word), Latin scandula] shin′gler, n. shin•gle2 (ˈʃɪŋ gəl)
n. 1. small, waterworn stones or pebbles lying loose esp. on a beach. 2. a beach, riverbank, or other area covered with such small pebbles or stones. [1530–40; appar. variant of earlier chingle; compare Norwegian singel small stones] shin′gly, adj. shin•gle3 (ˈʃɪŋ gəl)
v.t. -gled, -gling. to hammer or squeeze (puddled iron) into a bloom or billet, eliminating as much slag as possible. [1665–75; < French cingler to whip, beat < German zängeln, derivative of Zange tongs] Shingle pebbles collectively, 1598—Wilkes.shingle
Past participle: shingled
Gerund: shingling
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| I shingle | | you shingle | | he/she/it shingles | | we shingle | | you shingle | | they shingle |
| Preterite |
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| I shingled | | you shingled | | he/she/it shingled | | we shingled | | you shingled | | they shingled |
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| I am shingling | | you are shingling | | he/she/it is shingling | | we are shingling | | you are shingling | | they are shingling |
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| I have shingled | | you have shingled | | he/she/it has shingled | | we have shingled | | you have shingled | | they have shingled |
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| I was shingling | | you were shingling | | he/she/it was shingling | | we were shingling | | you were shingling | | they were shingling |
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| I had shingled | | you had shingled | | he/she/it had shingled | | we had shingled | | you had shingled | | they had shingled |
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| I will shingle | | you will shingle | | he/she/it will shingle | | we will shingle | | you will shingle | | they will shingle |
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| I will have shingled | | you will have shingled | | he/she/it will have shingled | | we will have shingled | | you will have shingled | | they will have shingled |
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| I will be shingling | | you will be shingling | | he/she/it will be shingling | | we will be shingling | | you will be shingling | | they will be shingling |
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| I have been shingling | | you have been shingling | | he/she/it has been shingling | | we have been shingling | | you have been shingling | | they have been shingling |
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| I will have been shingling | | you will have been shingling | | he/she/it will have been shingling | | we will have been shingling | | you will have been shingling | | they will have been shingling |
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| I had been shingling | | you had been shingling | | he/she/it had been shingling | | we had been shingling | | you had been shingling | | they had been shingling |
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| I would shingle | | you would shingle | | he/she/it would shingle | | we would shingle | | you would shingle | | they would shingle |
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| I would have shingled | | you would have shingled | | he/she/it would have shingled | | we would have shingled | | you would have shingled | | they would have shingled |
Thesaurus| Noun | 1. |  shingle - building material used as siding or roofingshakebuilding material - material used for constructing buildings | | 2. | shingle - coarse beach gravel of small waterworn stones and pebbles (or a stretch of shore covered with such gravel)crushed rock, gravel - rock fragments and pebbles | | 3. | shingle - a small signboard outside the office of a lawyer or doctor, e.g.signboard, sign - structure displaying a board on which advertisements can be posted; "the highway was lined with signboards" | | Verb | 1. | shingle - cover with shingles; "shingle a roof"roof - provide a building with a roof; cover a building with a roof |
Translationsshingle (ˈʃingl) noun coarse gravel. There's too much shingle and not enough sand on this beach. (海邊的) 砂礫,圓卵石 （布满海边的）小圆石 shingle
hang out (one's) shingleTo start a business of some kind. I'd be glad to take on your case—after years at that law firm, I'm finally hanging out my shingle.See also: hang, out, shinglehang up (one's) shingleTo start a business of some kind. I'd be glad to take on your case—after years at that law firm, I'm finally hanging up my shingle.See also: hang, shingle, upshit on a shinglerude slang Creamed chipped beef (processed beef that has been salted and dried, served in a white sauce) on top of toast. A traditional staple of military mess halls, where the term is often used. Primarily heard in US. I know it isn't a very glamorous meal, but one of my favorite meals growing up was always shit on a shingle! After eight years on active duty, I've had more shit on shingles than I care to recount.See also: on, shingle, shitstew on a shingleslang Creamed chipped beef (processed beef that has been salted and dried, served in a white sauce) on top of toast. A traditional staple of military mess halls. Primarily heard in US. I know it isn't a very glamorous meal, but one of my favorite meals growing up was always stew on a shingle! After eight years on active duty, I've had more stew on shingles than I care to recount.See also: on, shingle, stewsomething on a shingleslang Creamed chipped beef (processed beef that has been salted and dried, served in a white sauce) on top of toast. A traditional staple of military mess halls. Primarily heard in US. I know it isn't a very glamorous meal, but one of my favorite meals growing up was always something on a shingle! After eight years on active duty, I've had more something on shingles than I care to recount.See also: on, shingle, somethinghang out one's shingleOpen an office, especially a professional practice, as in Bill's renting that office and hanging out his shingle next month. This American colloquialism dates from the first half of the 1800s, when at first lawyers, and later also doctors and business concerns, used shingles for signboards. See also: hang, out, shinglehang out your shingle begin to practise a profession. North American The main and oldest sense of shingle is ‘a wooden roofing tile’, but in the early 19th century the word developed the more general sense of ‘a piece of board’, while in the USA it also acquired the particular meaning ‘a small signboard’. Literally, hanging out your shingle refers to hanging up a sign that advertises your profession.See also: hang, out, shinglehang out/up your ˈshingle (American English, informal) start to do business from your home, especially as a doctor or a lawyer: After graduating, he decided to hang out a shingle as a consultant.See also: hang, out, shingle, upshit on a shingle n. creamed chipped beef on toast. (see also creamed foreskins. Military. Usually objectionable.) Oh, no, it’s shit on a shingle again tonight. See also: on, shingle, shithang out one's shingle, toTo open an office, especially a professional practice. This term comes from nineteenth-century America, when lawyers, doctors, and various business concerns often used actual shingles for signboards. Van Wyck Brooks, in The World of Washington Irving (1944), wrote, “Catlin hung out his shingle as a portrait-painter.”See also: hang, outShingle
shingle1. coarse gravel, esp the pebbles found on beaches 2. a place or area strewn with shingle Shingle rock fragments 1-10 cm in diameter that have been rounded to varying degrees. The sharp-pointed fragments are rounded by the running water of rivers or by lake and seacoast waves. Sea shingle usually has a flatter shape than river shingle. Shingle is categorized as small (1-2.5 cm), medium (2.5-5 cm), and large (5-10 cm). Shingle is used chiefly in road construction.
Shingle a wooden roofing material in the form of a small plate having a wedge-like cross section. The sharp edge of the shingle fits into a groove in the thick edge of the neighboring shingle when the roof is covered. Shingles are made by hand (by splitting radially) and by machine (by sawing) from a straight layer of white spruce (the best shingles), pine, or aspen. Shingles are 50–60 cm long and 9–11 cm wide. They will last, depending on the climate and on the type and treatment of the wood used, for 25–35 years. Shingles are used in rural construction. shingle[′shiŋ·gəl] (geology) Pebbles, cobble, and other beach material, coarser than ordinary gravel but roughly the same size and occurring typically on the higher parts of a beach. (materials) A rectangular piece of wood, metal, or other material that is used like a tile and arranged in overlapping rows for covering roofs and walls. shingleA roofing unit of wood, asphaltic material, slate, tile, concrete, asbestos cement, or other material cut to stock lengths, widths, and thickness; used as an exterior covering on sloping roofs and side walls; applied in an overlapping fashion; usually in one of the following designs: chisel pattern, coursed pattern, diamond pattern, fishscale pattern, sawtooth pattern. Also see wood shingle and pine shingle.MedicalSeeshinglesshingle
Synonyms for shinglenoun building material used as siding or roofingSynonymsRelated Wordsnoun coarse beach gravel of small waterworn stones and pebbles (or a stretch of shore covered with such gravel)Related Wordsnoun a small signboard outside the office of a lawyer or doctor, eRelated Wordsverb cover with shinglesRelated Words |