Definition of "shingle"

shingle¹

/ˈʃɪŋ.ɡəl/

noun
plural shingles
1. 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.
  Quotations
  I reached St. Asaph, a Bishop's See, where there is a very poor Cathedral Church, covered with Shingles or Tiles
  1760, John Ray, Select Remains of the Learned John Ray, M.A. and F.R.S.‎, page 123
2. A rectangular piece of steel obtained by means of a shingling process involving hammering of puddled steel.
3. 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).
  Quotations
  He [...] hung a shingle as a barber.
  2016, Colson Whitehead, The Underground Railroad, Fleet (2017), page 311
  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.
  2022, Peter S. Canellos, interviewed by Ronald Collins in eGreater than Holmes? The life and legacy of John Marshall Harlan, SCOTUSblog, April 13 2022
4. (computational linguistics) A word-based n-gram.
  Quotations
  In the second phase, we produce a list of all the shingles and the documents they appear in, sorted by shingle value.
  1997 September 1, Andrei Z. Broder, Steven C. Glassman, Mark S. Manasse, Geoffrey Zweig, “Syntactic clustering of the Web”, in Computer Networks and ISDN Systems (Papers from the Sixth International World Wide Web Conference)‎, volume 29, number 8, pages 1157–1166
verb
third-person singular simple present shingles, present participle shingling, simple past and past participle shingled
1. (transitive) To cover with small, thin pieces of building material, with shingles.
2. (transitive) To cut, as hair, so that the ends are evenly exposed all over the head, like shingles on a roof.
3. (transitive) To increase the storage density of (a hard disk) by writing tracks that partially overlap.

shingle²

/ˈʃɪŋ.ɡəl/

verb
third-person singular simple present shingles, present participle shingling, simple past and past participle shingled
1. (transitive, manufacturing) To hammer and squeeze material in order to expel cinder and impurities from it, as in metallurgy.
2. (transitive) To beat with a shingle.
noun
plural shingles
1. A punitive strap such as a belt.
2. (by extension) Any paddle used for corporal punishment.

shingle³

/ˈʃɪŋ.ɡəl/

noun
countable and uncountable, plural shingles
1. Small, smooth pebbles, as found on a beach.
  Quotations
  And naked shingles of the world.
  1867, Matthew Arnold, Dover Beach
  You need to excavate and remove the topsoil, line the subsoil with a geotextile, then lay and compact hardcore. Follow this with a layer of compacted "hoggin" – compacted clay, gravel and sand. This is then sprayed with hot bitumen, and has a layer of pea shingle rolled into it.
  2014 August 24, Jeff Howell, “Home improvements: gravel paths and cutting heating bills ”, in The Daily Telegraph (Property)‎
  One can't escape the huge nuclear facility at Sellafield (supplier of much of the line's remaining freight traffic), or miss the wild shingle beaches with exposed and precarious bungalows sandwiched between the railway and the shore at Braystones.
  2022 November 2, Paul Bigland, “New trains, old trains, and splendid scenery”, in RAIL, number 969, page 57

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