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shingle 音標拼音: [ʃ'ɪŋgəl] n. 鵝卵石,小招牌 鵝卵石,小招牌 shingle n 1: building material used as siding or roofing [ synonym: { shingle}, { shake}] 2: coarse beach gravel of small waterworn stones and pebbles ( or a stretch of shore covered with such gravel) 3: a small signboard outside the office of a lawyer or doctor, e. g. v 1: cover with shingles; " shingle a roof" Shingle \ Shin" gle\, v. t. [ imp. & p. p. { Shingled}; p. pr. & vb. n. { Shingling}.] 1. To cover with shingles; as, to shingle a roof. [ 1913 Webster] They shingle their houses with it. -- Evelyn. [ 1913 Webster] 2. To cut, as hair, so that the ends are evenly exposed all over the head, as shingles on a roof. [ 1913 Webster]
Shingle \ Shin" gle\, v. t. To subject to the process of shindling, as a mass of iron from the pudding furnace. [ 1913 Webster]
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. [ 1913 Webster]
Shingle \ Shin" gle\, n. [ OE. shingle, shindle, fr. L. scindula, scandula; cf. scindere to cleave, to split, E. shed, v. t., Gr. ???, ???, shingle, ??? to slit.] 1. A piece of wood sawed or rived thin and small, with one end thinner than the other, -- used in covering buildings, especially roofs, the thick ends of one row overlapping the thin ends of the row below. [ 1913 Webster] I reached St. Asaph, . . . where there is a very poor cathedral church covered with shingles or tiles. -- Ray. [ 1913 Webster] 2. A sign for an office or a shop; as, to hang out one' s shingle. [ Jocose, U. S.] [ 1913 Webster] { Shingle oak} ( Bot.), a kind of oak ({ Quercus imbricaria}) used in the Western States for making shingles. [ 1913 Webster] 149 Moby Thesaurus words for " shingle": arch over, bank, barber, beach, beam, berm, bestraddle, bestride, billet, board, boarding, bob, breccia, brick, bridge, ceiling, clapboard, coast, coastland, coastline, coif, coiffure, conk, cord, cordwood, deal, debris, detritus, driftwood, eaves, embankment, extend over, face, firewood, foreshore, glass, glaze, grain, granule, granulet, gravel, grit, hang over, hardwood, housetop, imbricate, ironbound coast, jut, lantern, lap, lap over, lath, lathing, lathwork, lido, lie over, littoral, log, lumber, overarch, overhang, overhead, overlap, overlie, override, panelboard, paneling, panelwork, paper, penthouse, plafond, plage, plank, planking, playa, plyboard, plywood, pole, pompadour, post, process, puncheon, revet, ride, ridgepole, riverside, riviera, rockbound coast, roof, roof garden, roof- deck, roofage, roofing, roofpole, rooftop, rooftree, sand, sands, sea margin, seabank, seabeach, seaboard, seacliff, seacoast, seashore, seaside, shake, sheathe, sheathing, sheathing board, sheeting, shingles, shore, shoreline, sideboard, slab, slat, slate, slates, softwood, span, splat, stave, stick, stick of wood, stone, stovewood, strand, submerged coast, thatch, three- by- four, tidewater, tile, tiles, timber, timbering, timberwork, top, trim, two- by- four, veneer, wall in, wall up, wallpaper, waterfront, waterside, wave, weatherboard, wood
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