shingle

== English == === Pronunciation === (UK, US) IPA(key): /ˈʃɪŋ.ɡəl/ Rhymes: -ɪŋɡəl === Etymology 1 === From Middle English shyngel, alteration of Old English sċindel, from Proto-West Germanic *skindulā, borrowed from Late Latin scindula, from Latin scandula, from Proto-Indo-European *sked- (“to split, scatter”), from *sek- (“to cut”). Doublet of shindle. ==== Alternative forms ==== shindle ==== Noun ==== shingle (plural shingles) 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). 2022, Peter S. Canellos, interviewed by Ronald Collins in eGreater than Holmes? The life and legacy of John Marshall Harlan, SCOTUSblog, April 13 2022 When [these attorneys] were born, in the early decades of the 19th century, being a lawyer meant putting out a shingle and representing your neighbors. (computational linguistics) A word-based n-gram. ===== Derived terms ===== ===== Translations ===== ==== Verb ==== shingle (third-person singular simple present shingles, present participle shingling, simple past and past participle shingled) (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. ===== Derived terms ===== ===== Translations ===== ==== See also ==== shake tile === Etymology 2 === From dialectal French chingler (“to strap, whip”), from Latin cingula (“girt, belt”), from cingere (“to girt”). ==== Verb ==== shingle (third-person singular simple present shingles, present participle shingling, simple past and past participle shingled) (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. ===== Translations ===== ==== Noun ==== shingle (plural shingles) A punitive strap such as a belt. (by extension) Any paddle used for corporal punishment. ===== Translations ===== === Etymology 3 === From Middle English shingel, chingel, singel (“gravel, pebbles”), cognate with Norwegian Bokmål singel (“pebble(s)”), Norwegian Nynorsk singel (“pebble(s)”), and North Frisian singel (“gravel”), imitative of the sound of water running over such pebbles. ==== Noun ==== shingle (countable and uncountable, plural shingles) Small, smooth pebbles, as found on a beach. A beach or other shore covered with loose, smooth pebbles. ===== Derived terms ===== shingly ===== Translations ===== === References === “shingle” in Webster’s Seventh New Collegiate Dictionary: Based on Webster’s Third New International Dictionary, 7th edition, Springfield, Mass.: G[eorge] & C[harles] Merriam, 1963 (1967 printing), →OCLC. Corpun.com, a specialized website on Corporal Punishments === Anagrams === English, Hingles, english