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  • Shingle — can refer to: *A flat covering element for a roof, including **Shake (roof) **Roof shingle * Shingle beach, especially in Western Europe, a beach composed of pebbles * Shingle, an algorithm to detect duplicate documents in search engine *… …   Wikipedia

  • shingle — Ⅰ. shingle [1] ► NOUN ▪ a mass of small rounded pebbles, especially on a seashore. DERIVATIVES shingly adjective. ORIGIN of unknown origin. Ⅱ. shingle [2] ► …   English terms dictionary

  • 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. [1913 Webster] …   The Collaborative International Dictionary of English

  • shingle — shingle1 shingler, n. /shing geuhl/, n., v., shingled, shingling. n. 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… …   Universalium

  • shingle — I shin•gle [[t]ˈʃɪŋ gəl[/t]] n. v. gled, gling 1) bui a thin piece of wood, slate, metal, asbestos, or the like, usu. oblong, laid in overlapping rows to cover the roofs and walls of buildings 2) clo a woman s short hairstyle in which the hair is …   From formal English to slang

  • shingle — I. /ˈʃɪŋgəl / (say shingguhl) noun 1. a thin piece of wood, slate, etc., usually oblong and with one end thicker than the other, used in overlapping rows to cover the roofs and sides of houses. 2. a woman s close cropped haircut. 3. Originally US …  

  • shingle — English has two distinct words shingle. The older, ‘roof tile’ [12], was borrowed from Latin scindula, a variant of scandula ‘roof tile’. This was probably derived from scandere ‘ascend’ (source of English ascend, descend, scan, etc), the… …   The Hutchinson dictionary of word origins

  • shingle — {{11}}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 root *sked to split. Meaning …   Etymology dictionary

  • shingle — shingle1 noun a mass of small rounded pebbles, especially on a seashore. Derivatives shingly adjective Origin ME: of unknown origin. shingle2 noun 1》 a rectangular wooden tile used on walls or roofs. 2》 dated a woman s short haircut, tapering… …   English new terms dictionary

  • shingle — English has two distinct words shingle. The older, ‘roof tile’ [12], was borrowed from Latin scindula, a variant of scandula ‘roof tile’. This was probably derived from scandere ‘ascend’ (source of English ascend, descend, scan, etc), the… …   Word origins

  • shingle —   the mixture of gravels, pebbles and shell fragments that accumulate on some beaches …   Geography glossary

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