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shingle1 /ˈʃɪŋɡ(ə)l /noun [mass noun]A mass of small rounded pebbles, especially on a seashore: a wonderful beach of fine shingle [as modifier]: natural features like sand dunes and shingle banks...- There were also sand dunes and shingle banks that were later used for building roads in the new town.
- Most of the Thames Bank is shingle and stone so sand is relatively rare.
- I find soft, powdery sand, hard sand, loose shingle banks and a couple of streams.
Derivatives shingly /ˈʃɪŋɡ(ə)li / adjective ...- Without Limmer, there would be no Gimblett Gravels, that shingly region of Hawke's Bay that has assumed legendary winegrowing properties.
- Canvas shoes are necessary as the shore is shingly.
- They will spend two weeks at a well-recommended three-star hotel in a quiet area of the old town, a short walk from a shingly beach that shelves gently towards the sea.
Origin Late Middle English: of unknown origin. With the meaning ‘a rectangular wooden tile used on walls or roofs’, shingle probably goes back to Latin scandula ‘split piece of wood’. In the early 19th century the word developed the meaning ‘a piece of board’, and in the USA in particular ‘a small signboard’. To hang out your shingle, an American expression for ‘to begin to practise a profession’, refers to a doctor or lawyer hanging up a sign outside their office advertising their professional services. The shingle on a seashore is a different word, whose origin is unknown, and the painful medical condition shingles is different again. Its origin is medieval Latin cingulus ‘belt, girdle’, a reference to the blisters that appear in a band around the body.
Rhymes commingle, cringle, dingle, Fingal, intermingle, jingle, mingle, single, swingle, tingle shingle2 /ˈʃɪŋɡ(ə)l /noun1A rectangular wooden tile used on walls or roofs.Remove enough of the roof shingles, tiles, gravel, or other roofing material down to the tar paper....- Roofs may be covered with tiles, wooden shingles, or zinc sheets.
- Check that your roof isn't missing any shingles, tiles, slates or nails.
2 dated A woman’s short haircut in which the hair tapers from the back of the head to the nape of the neck.So named because of the layering 3North American A small signboard, especially one found outside a doctor’s or lawyer’s office.This is my only reason for justifying the shingle hanging outside in the boulevard....- So, I'll leave my shingle hanging outside this virtual stoop a while longer.
- The shingle on his door says that he is a Jungian analyst.
verb [with object]1Roof or clad with shingles: (as adjective shingled) a tower surmounted by a shingled spire...- Once the flat planes of the roof have been shingled, you will need to apply the hip shingles, if you have a hip roof, which will be overlapped by the ridge shingles.
- The roof was shingled with maroon tiles, and the chimney was made mostly of red brick.
- So, after two years and $1.4 billion of preparation this is where we're at: a bunch of skilled scientists doing the outer-space equivalent of shingling a roof.
2 dated Cut (a woman’s hair) in a shingle: women began to bob their hair immediately after the war and were shingling it by 1925...- My hair is shingled, and the longest strands are about nine inches long.
- And although shingled hair was wildly popular in the period, it still seems to have connoted rejection of traditional relationships.
- He had taken a liking to my mother, who looked more forward than she was, with her shingled hair and very short skirt showing a lot of silk stocking.
Phrases hang out one's shingle a shingle short Origin Middle English (as a noun): apparently from Latin scindula, earlier scandula 'a split piece of wood'. |