Noun: shingle
| Singular | shingle |
| Plural | shingles |
Sample Sentences
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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:]
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He [...] hung a shingle as a barber. [2016, Colson Whitehead, The Underground Railroad, Fleet (2017), page 311:]
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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]
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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, →DOI, →ISSN, pages 1157–1166:]
Nouns inflected like shingle
soldier's woundwort,
Nicosian,
whopper,
greypate,
tactile sign language,
chronotrope,
Rosie Lee,
dissentient,
photoinactivator,
sulphonediimine,
coastal waterfall,
residuary devise,
bituminization,
nitrosonaphthol,
smṛiti,
geosphere,
backscreen,
mensuralist,
flocculate,
flocculant, etc. (List truncated at 20 nouns)
Etymology
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. See: Middle English Nouns '
shyngel', Old English Nouns '
sċindel', Latin Nouns '
scandula'.
Verbs referencing "shingle"
Finnish Nouns
singeli.