shingle
IPA: ʃˈɪŋgʌɫ
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).
- (computational linguistics) A word-based n-gram.
- A punitive strap such as a belt.
- (by extension) Any paddle used for corporal punishment.
- Small, smooth pebbles, as found on a beach.
verb
- (transitive) To cover with small, thin pieces of building material, with shingles.
- (transitive) To cut, as hair, so that the ends are evenly exposed all over the head, like shingles on a roof.
- (transitive) To increase the storage density of (a hard disk) by writing tracks that partially overlap.
- (transitive, manufacturing) To hammer and squeeze material in order to expel cinder and impurities from it, as in metallurgy.
- (transitive) To beat with a shingle.
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Examples of "shingle" in Sentences
- There are shingles on the adobe.
- The roof is shingled in asphalt.
- An asphalt shingle is a type of roof shingle.
- An 'asphalt shingle' is a type of roof shingle.
- The foundation is stone and the roof is asphalt shingle.
- Sheets cut from the web section are shingled on a shingling conveyor.
- On the shingle other linen was already outspread, whitening in the sun.
- The eastern cay is composed of shingle and the western of sand and shingle.
- Boyish cuts were in vogue, especially the Bob cut, Eton crop, and Shingle bob.
- I've been considering whether these split shingle cardinals are mottled or molting.
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