Shingle

Quick meaning: Shingle is a noun meaning A rectangular piece of steel obtained by means of a shingling process involving hammering of puddled steel.

Meaning

A rectangular piece of steel obtained by means of a shingling process involving hammering of puddled steel.

More Meanings

1. (computational linguistics) A word-based n-gram.
2. (transitive) To cover with small, thin pieces of building material, with shingles.
3. (transitive) To cut, as hair, so that the ends are evenly exposed all over the head, like shingles on a roof.
4. (transitive) To increase the storage density of (a hard disk) by writing tracks that partially overlap.
5. (transitive, manufacturing) To hammer and squeeze material in order to expel cinder and impurities from it, as in metallurgy.
6. 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.
7. 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).

Example Sentences

And naked shingles of the world.

He [...] hung a shingle as a barber.

I reached St. Asaph, a Bishop's See, where there is a very poor Cathedral Church, covered with Shingles or Tiles

In the second phase, we produce a list of all the shingles and the documents they appear in, sorted by shingle value.

Word Forms

• shingles
• shindle
• shingling
• shingled

Synonyms for shingle

Depending on context, synonyms include shake.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include shake, shive, clapboard, sarking, shillet, slate.

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