[shing-guh
lz] 
) Pathology. | a disease caused by the varicella-zoster virus, esp. by reactivated virus in an older person, characterized by skin eruptions and pain along the course of involved sensory nerves. |
[shing-guhl] noun, verb, -gled, -gling.| 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. |
[shing-guhl] | 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. |
[shing-guhl] | to hammer or squeeze (puddled iron) into a bloom or billet, eliminating as much slag as possible; knobble. |
| shin·gle 1 (shĭng'gəl) n.
[Middle English, from Old English scindel, scingal, from Late Latin scindula, alteration of Latin scandula (influenced by scindere, to split).] shin'gler n. |
| shin·gle 2 (shĭng'gəl) n.
[Middle English.] shin'gly adj. |
| shin·gles (shĭng'gəlz) pl.n. (used with a sing. or pl. verb) An acute viral infection characterized by inflammation of the sensory ganglia of certain spinal or cranial nerves and the eruption of vesicles along the affected nerve path. It usually strikes only one side of the body and is often accompanied by severe neuralgia. Also called herpes zoster. [Middle English, alteration (influenced by Old French cengles, pl. of cengle, shingles, and by Old French sengle, single, chingle, belt) of Medieval Latin cingulus (translation of Greek zōstēr, girdle, shingles, from the fact that the inflammation often extends around the middle of the body), variant of Latin cingulum, girdle, from cingere, to gird; see kenk- in Indo-European roots.] |
shingles shin·gles (shĭng'gəlz)
n.
An acute infection caused by a herpesvirus and characterized by inflammation of the sensory ganglia of certain spinal or cranial nerves and the eruption of vesicles along the affected nerve path. It usually strikes only one side of the body and is often accompanied by severe neuralgia. Also called herpes zoster, zona, zoster.
| shingles (shĭng'gəlz) Pronunciation Key
See under herpes. |
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