shingle
To cover with small, thin pieces of building material, with shinglesTo cover with small, thin pieces of building material, with shingles.
» I had shingles once.
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5 senses(transitive)To cover with small, thin pieces of building material, with shingles.
mit Schindeln decken
cover with shingles
(transitive)To cut, as hair, so that the ends are evenly exposed all over the head, like shingles on a roof.
(transitive)To increase the storage density of (a hard disk) by writing tracks that partially overlap.
(transitive)To hammer and squeeze material in order to expel cinder and impurities from it, as in metallurgy.
(transitive)To beat with a shingle.
Examples
19 sentencesI had shingles once.
Tom has shingles.
Ziri covered the roof with shingles.
I had shingles a couple of months ago.
The house has two floors and a wood shingle roof.
Translations
5 languagesBy meaning 1
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”).
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Forms
shingles, shingling, shingled, shingledWord family
9 related wordsLessons for this word
3 lessons- A1Present simple — Because it is a verb
- A1Past simple, regular verbs — Because of its past form
- A2Present perfect: introduction — Because of its past participle