noun · rare

shingle

shingle · shingles

ґонт

дранка, галька, шиндель

Schindel, Kiesel, Firmenschild, Kieselstein

A small, thin piece of building material, often with one end thicker than the other,…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.

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/ˈʃɪŋ.ɡəl/

» I had shingles once.

Meaning

8 senses

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.
Schindel
дра́нкаdránka, ши́ндельšíndelʹ
ґонтgont
A rectangular piece of steel obtained by means of a shingling process involving hammering of puddled steel.
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).
Firmenschild
a small signboard outside the office of a lawyer or doctor, e.g.
A word-based n-gram.
A punitive strap such as a belt.
(broadly)Any paddle used for corporal punishment.
(countable, uncountable)Small, smooth pebbles, as found on a beach.
Kiesel, Kieselstein
га́лькаgálʹka
coarse beach gravel of small waterworn stones and pebbles (or a stretch of shore covered with such gravel)
(countable, uncountable)A beach or other shore covered with loose, smooth pebbles.

Examples

19 sentences

I had shingles once.
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Tom has shingles.
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Ziri covered the roof with shingles.
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I had shingles a couple of months ago.
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The house has two floors and a wood shingle roof.
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Translations

9 languages

Українська

By meaning 1

small, thin piece of building material:

Русский

By meaning 2

small, thin piece of building material:

small, smooth pebbles:

Deutsch

By meaning 3

small, thin piece of building material:

small signboard designating a professional office:

small, smooth pebbles:

Origin

From Middle English shyngel, alteration of Old English sċindel, from Proto-West Germanic *

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.

From dialectal French chingler (“to strap, whip”), from Latin cingula (“girt, belt”), from cingere (“to girt”).

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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