Definition of Shingle. Meaning of Shingle. Synonyms of Shingle

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Definition of Shingle

Shingle
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.
Shingle
Shingle Shin"gle, v. t. [imp. &. p. p. Shingled; p. pr. & vb. n. Shingling.] 1. To cover with shingles; as, to shingle a roof. They shingle their houses with it. --Evelyn. 2. To cut, as hair, so that the ends are evenly exposed all over the head, as shingles on a roof.
Shingle
Shingle Shin"gle, v. t. To subject to the process of shindling, as a mass of iron from the pudding furnace.

Meaning of Shingle from wikipedia

- Shake (shingle), a wooden shingle that is split from a bolt, with a more rustic appearance than a sawed shingle Quercus imbricaria, or shingle oak, a...
- free dictionary. Shingle is a corruption of German Schindel meaning a roofing slate. Shingles historically were called tiles, and shingle was a term applied...
- A shingle beach, also known as either a cobble beach or gravel beach, is a commonly narrow beach that is composed of co****, loose, well-rounded, and...
- Shingle Springs (formerly, Shingle Spring and Shingle) is a census-designated place (CDP) in El Dorado County, California, United States. The po****tion...
- The shingle style is an American architectural style made po****r by the rise of the New England school of architecture, which eschewed the highly ornamented...
- In natural language processing a w-shingling is a set of unique shingles (therefore n-grams) each of which is composed of contiguous subsequences of tokens...
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- fire and cost more than other types of shingle so they are not as common today as in the past. Distinctive shingle patterns exist in various regions created...
- Shingling was a stage in the production of bar iron or steel, in the finery and puddling processes. As with many ironmaking terms, this is derived from...
- Empire and Stick styles and preceded the Richardsonian Romanesque and Shingle styles. Sub-movements of Queen Anne include the Eastlake movement. The...