shingle

Meaning

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

Verb

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

Synonyms

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

Pronounced as (IPA)

/ˈʃɪŋ.ɡəl/

Etymology

Inherited from Middle English: shyngel

Inherited from Old English: sċingul

Inherited from Middle English: shingel

Cognate with Norwegian Bokmål: singel

Cognate with Norwegian Nynorsk: singel

Cognate with Northern Frisian: singel

In summary

From Middle English shyngel, from Old English sċingul, a late variant of 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.