shingling
IPA: ʃˈɪŋgʌɫɪŋ
noun
- The act of covering with shingles.
- Shingles, collectively; a covering made of shingles.
- The process of expelling scoriae and other impurities by hammering and squeezing, in the production of wrought iron.
- The increasing of the storage density of a hard disk by writing tracks that partially overlap.
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Examples of "shingling" in Sentences
- Sheets cut from the web section are shingled on a shingling conveyor.
- Over the last couple weeks, workers have been re-shingling the roofs of my complex.
- When we got all the old shingling off, we could come pick up an air compressor and a pneumatic nail gun.
- I put an addition on our house and with the exception of pouring the foundation/garage floor and shingling the roof, I did everything.
- What I can do is to teach you the skills I used — the metaphorical hammering, shingling, wiring, and so on — and let you build your own unique business.
- I learned from Steve Armes, an expert on academic methods, that this area-by-area method has also been called "shingling" and the "night shade" method, because it's like pulling down a night shade.
- Another two high-impact examples from technology is Web search, where the Random Surfer notion in PageRank is directly related to randomized methods, and fast Web duplicate detection using shingling and randomization.
- Many a dispute have I heard raging high between professed "beach-combers," as to whether the hides should be stowed "shingling," or back-to-back, and flipper-to-flipper; "upon which point there was an entire and bitter division of sentiment among the savans.
- Many a dispute have I heard raging high between professed "beach-combers," as to whether the hides should be stowed "shingling," or "back-to-back, and flipper-to-flipper;" upon which point there was an entire and bitter division of sentiment among the savans.
- While the finance wizards of Washington and Wall Street were laying a foundation for the economic collapse and then shingling the roof and picking out the curtains many of our progressive economist heroes saw the crisis coming and urged the institution of reforms that would have helped prevent it.
- While the finance wizards of Washington and Wall Street were laying a foundation for the economic collapse (and then shingling the roof and picking out the curtains) many of our progressive economist heroes saw the crisis coming and urged the institution of reforms that would have helped prevent it.
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