shingle

(Engels)

Noun

1. 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.
2. A rectangular piece of steel obtained by means of a shingling process involving hammering of puddled steel.
3. 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).
4. A word-based n-gram.

Verb

1. (transitive) To cover with small, thin pieces of building material, with shingles.
2. (transitive) To cut, as hair, so that the ends are evenly exposed all over the head, like shingles on a roof.
3. (transitive) To increase the storage density of (a hard disk) by writing tracks that partially overlap.

Verb

1. (transitive) To hammer and squeeze material in order to expel cinder and impurities from it, as in metallurgy.
2. (transitive) To beat with a shingle.

Uitgespreek as (IPA)

/ˈʃɪŋ.ɡəl/

Etimologie (Engels)

Geërf van Middle English: shyngel

Geërf van Old English: sċingul

Geërf van Middle English: shingel

Verwante met Boeknoors: singel

Verwante met Nuwe Noors: singel

Verwante met Noord-Fries: singel

In summary

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.

Sinonieme

pebble

shake

🫨

cobble

gravel

pebbles

beach

🏖️

lath

roof

tile

racking

scree

scute

shield

🛡️

shore

shroud

sign

squeezing

thatch

thin board

trim

wooden shingle

nobbing

pavis

pavise

small stones

roof slab

curtain board

grait

boulder flint

roofing board

mouthpiece pressing

batten

tile of wood

boulder

buckler

casing

cover

cut

extruding

extrusion

hood