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shin·gle1 
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| 1. | a thin piece of wood, slate, metal, asbestos, or the like, usually oblong, laid in overlapping rows to cover the roofs and walls of buildings. |
| 2. | a woman's close-cropped haircut. |
| 3. | Informal. a small signboard, esp. as hung before a doctor's or lawyer's office. |
| 4. | to cover with shingles, as a roof. |
| 5. | to cut (hair) close to the head. |
| 6. | hang out one's shingle, Informal. to establish a professional practice, esp. in law or medicine; open an office. |
| 7. | have or be a shingle short, Australian Slang. to be mentally disturbed, mad, or eccentric. |
[Origin: 1150–1200; ME scincle, sc(h)ingle < ML scindula lath, shingle (ME -g- appar. by assoc. with another unidentified word), L scandula (ML -i- perh. by assoc. with Gk schíza lath, splinter, or related words)]
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shingler, noun
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shin·gle2
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| 1. | small, waterworn stones or pebbles such as lie in loose sheets or beds on a beach. |
| 2. | a beach, riverbank, or other area covered with such small pebbles or stones. |
[Origin: 1530–40; appar. var. of earlier chingle; cf. Norw singel small stones]
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shin·gle3
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Audio Help [shing-guhl] Pronunciation Key –verb (used with object), -gled, -gling. Metalworking.
| to hammer or squeeze (puddled iron) into a bloom or billet, eliminating as much slag as possible; knobble. |
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| shin·gle 1
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v. tr. shin·gled, shin·gling, shin·gles
[Middle English, from Old English scindel, scingal, from Late Latin scindula, alteration of Latin scandula (influenced by scindere, to split).] shin'gler n. |
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| shin·gle 2
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[Middle English.] shin'gly adj. |
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shingle (1)
"thin piece of wood," c.1200, scincle, from L.L. scindula, altered (by influence of Gk. schidax "lath" or schindalmos "splinter") from L. scandula "roof tile," from scindere "to cleave, split," from PIE base *sked- "to split." Meaning "small signboard" is first attested 1842; that of "woman's short haircut" is from 1924. The verb meaning "to cut the hair so as to give the impression of overlapping shingles" is from 1857.
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shingle (2)
"loose stones on seashore," 1513, probably related to Norw. singl "small stones," or N.Fris. singel "gravel," both said to be echoic of the sound of water running over pebbles.
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| shingle | |
noun | |
| 1. | building material used as siding or roofing |
| 2. | coarse beach gravel of small waterworn stones and pebbles (or a stretch of shore covered with such gravel) |
| 3. | a small signboard outside the office of a lawyer or doctor, e.g. |
verb | |
| 1. | cover with shingles; "shingle a roof" |
| WordNet® 3.0, © 2006 by Princeton University. |
shingle [ˈʃingl] noun
coarse gravel
Example: There's too much shingle and not enough sand on this beach.
Example: There's too much shingle and not enough sand on this beach.
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Shingle Springs, CA (CDP, FIPS 71554) Location: 38.67077 N, 120.93966 W
Population (1990): 2049 (708 housing units)
Area: 10.6 sq km (land), 0.0 sq km (water)
| U.S. Gazetteer, U.S. Census Bureau |
Shingle
Shin"dle\, n. [See 2d Shingle.] A shingle; also, a slate for roofing. [Obs.] --Holland.| Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary, © 1996, 1998 MICRA, Inc. |
Shingle
Shin"gle\, n. [Prob. from Norw. singl, singling, coarse gravel, small round stones.] (Geol.) Round, water-worn, and loose gravel and pebbles, or a collection of roundish stones, such as are common on the seashore and elsewhere.| Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary, © 1996, 1998 MICRA, Inc. |
Shingle
Shin"gle\, n. [OE. shingle, shindle, fr. L. scindula, scandula; cf. scindere to cleave, to split, E. shed, v.t., Gr. ???, ???, shingle, ??? to slit.]1. A piece of wood sawed or rived thin and small, with one end thinner than the other, -- used in covering buildings, especially roofs, the thick ends of one row overlapping the thin ends of the row below. I reached St. Asaph, . . . where there is a very poor cathedral church covered with shingles or tiles. --Ray. 2. A sign for an office or a shop; as, to hang out one's shingle. [Jocose, U. S.] Shingle oak (Bot.), a kind of oak (Quercus imbricaria) used in the Western States for making shingles.| Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary, © 1996, 1998 MICRA, Inc. |
Shingle
Shin"gle\, v. t. [imp. &. p. p. Shingled; p. pr. & vb. n. Shingling.]1. To cover with shingles; as, to shingle a roof. They shingle their houses with it. --Evelyn. 2. To cut, as hair, so that the ends are evenly exposed all over the head, as shingles on a roof.| Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary, © 1996, 1998 MICRA, Inc. |
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