shingle en · NOUN · etymology 1
Pronunciation
- (Southern-England) audio
- /ˈʃɪŋ.ɡəl/ (General-American, Received-Pronunciation)
Etymology
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.
Meanings
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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.
I reached St. Asaph, a Bishop's See, where there is a very poor Cathedral Church, covered with Shingles or Tiles
1760, John Ray, Select Remains of the Learned John Ray, M.A. and F.R.S., page 123:
- A rectangular piece of steel obtained by means of a shingling process involving hammering of puddled steel.
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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).
He [...] hung a shingle as a barber.
2016, Colson Whitehead, The Underground Railroad, Fleet (2017), page 311: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.
2022, Peter S. Canellos, interviewed by Ronald Collins in eGreater than Holmes? The life and legacy of John Marshall Harlan, SCOTUSblog, April 13 2022
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A word-based n-gram.
In the second phase, we produce a list of all the shingles and the documents they appear in, sorted by shingle value.
1997 September 1, Andrei Z. Broder, Steven C. Glassman, Mark S. Manasse, Geoffrey Zweig, “Syntactic clustering of the Web”, in Computer Networks and ISDN Systems (Papers from the Sixth International World Wide Web Conference), volume 29, number 8, →DOI, →ISSN, pages 1157–1166:
Forms
| Spelling | Features | Labels | Source |
|---|---|---|---|
| shindle | alternative | lexicographic | |
| shingles | Number=Plur | lexicographic |
Deriveds
stew on a shingle · shingle oak · architectural shingle · shit on a shingle · dimensional shingle · shingle cap · shingleback · shinglewise · square tab shingle · hang a shingle · asphalt shingle · bingle
Translations (51)
ota پداوره (small, thin piece of building material) · eo ŝindo (small, thin piece of building material) · lld scintla (small, thin piece of building material) · sq ballanike (small, thin piece of building material) · pt telha (small, thin piece of building material) · sgs guonts (small, thin piece of building material) · pdt Schindel (small, thin piece of building material) · ro draniță (small, thin piece of building material) · pl szyndzioł (small, thin piece of building material) · hu zsindely (small, thin piece of building material) · fr bardeau (small, thin piece of building material) · sq shklesë (small, thin piece of building material) · de Firmenschild (small signboard designating a professional office) · mk ши́ндра (small, thin piece of building material) · de Schindel (small, thin piece of building material) · sq dhogë (small, thin piece of building material) · ro șindrilă (small, thin piece of building material) · it targa (small signboard designating a professional office) · uk ґонт (small, thin piece of building material) · fa شینگل (small, thin piece of building material) · ru дра́нка (small, thin piece of building material) · la scandula (small, thin piece of building material) · mzn لت (small, thin piece of building material) · cs šindel (small, thin piece of building material) · sq tjegull (small, thin piece of building material) · be гонта (small, thin piece of building material) · wym śynduł (small, thin piece of building material) · bg кереми́да (small, thin piece of building material) · fi kattopäre (small, thin piece of building material) · sk šindeľ (small, thin piece of building material) · bg ши́ндел (small, thin piece of building material) · fi nimikyltti (small signboard designating a professional office) · fi paanu (small, thin piece of building material) · chr ᏒᏓᎷᎩ (small, thin piece of building material) · it scandola (small, thin piece of building material) · ru ши́ндель (small, thin piece of building material) · nrf seingl'ye (small, thin piece of building material) · fo takspónur (small, thin piece of building material) · tr balar (small, thin piece of building material) · es tablilla (small, thin piece of building material) · fi kattolaatta (small, thin piece of building material) · bg табела (small signboard designating a professional office) · ja 杮板 (small, thin piece of building material) · pl gont (small, thin piece of building material) · izh päre (small, thin piece of building material) · ota شندره (small, thin piece of building material) · ja 杮 (small, thin piece of building material) · fi päre (small, thin piece of building material) · gl tella (small, thin piece of building material) · hu névtábla (small signboard designating a professional office) · tr padavra (small, thin piece of building material)