shingle

名词 n. 动词 v.
中文释义
英 /ˈʃɪŋ.ɡəl/    美 /ˈʃɪŋ.ɡəl/

英文释义

名词 n.
  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.
    — I reached St. Asaph, a Bishop's See, where there is a very poor Cathedral Church, covered with Shingles or Tiles
  2. A punitive strap such as a belt.
  3. Small, smooth pebbles, as found on a beach. countable,uncountable
    — And naked shingles of the world.
  4. A rectangular piece of steel obtained by means of a shingling process involving hammering of puddled steel.
  5. Any paddle used for corporal punishment. broadly
  6. A beach or other shore covered with loose, smooth pebbles. countable,uncountable
    — Underneath a black cliff where the incoming tide smashed on the shingle, they stumbled upon the mail hood of Hrothgar's murdered vassal.
  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).
    — He [...] hung a shingle as a barber.
  8. A word-based n-gram.
    — In the second phase, we produce a list of all the shingles and the documents they appear in, sorted by shingle value.
动词 v.
  1. To cover with small, thin pieces of building material, with shingles. transitive
  2. To hammer and squeeze material in order to expel cinder and impurities from it, as in metallurgy. transitive
  3. To cut, as hair, so that the ends are evenly exposed all over the head, like shingles on a roof. transitive
  4. To beat with a shingle. transitive
  5. To increase the storage density of (a hard disk) by writing tracks that partially overlap. transitive

词形变化

shingles plural shindle alternative shingles present,singular,third-person shingling participle,present shingled participle,past shingled past shindle alternative shingles present,singular,third-person shingling participle,present shingled participle,past shingled past shingles plural shingles plural

词汇关系

衍生词
architectural shingle asphalt shingle bingle dimensional shingle hang a shingle shingleback shingle cap shingle oak shinglewise shit on a shingle square tab shingle stew on a shingle hang out one's shingle reshingle shingler shingle up solar shingle w-shingling shingly
相关词
shake tile

词源

词源 1
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.
词源 2
From dialectal French chingler (“to strap, whip”), from Latin cingula (“girt, belt”), from cingere (“to girt”).
词源 3
From Middle English shingel, chingel, singel (“gravel, pebbles”), cognate with Norwegian Bokmål singel (“pebble(s)”), Norwegian Nynorsk singel (“pebble(s)”), and North Frisian singel (“gravel”), imitative of the sound of water running over such pebbles.
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