shingle

CEFRC2

/ˈʃɪŋ.ɡəl/

noun

Türkçe translations

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In plain English

  1. 01

    noun

    A thin piece of material used to cover a roof.

  2. 02

    noun

    Small smooth stones on a beach.

Examples

  • The house has two floors and a wood shingle roof.

  • The town had three lumber mills, four shingle mills, and a gristmill.

At a glance

Sits at C2 on the CEFR scale

Senses
5
Parts of speech
1
Citations
5

Deep Dive

noun

Extra meanings

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

  2. 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).

  3. 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.

More examples

In context

  • When [these attorneys] were born, in the early decades of the 19th century, being a lawyer meant putting out a shingle and representing your neighbors.

  • 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

Quick test

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The roofer nailed a new blank onto the roof of the old house.

Practise this properly in the app, where the word comes back before you forget it.

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Origin

noun

From Middle English shyngel, alteration of Old English 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.