shingle
n. 墙面板, 小招牌
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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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A rectangular piece of steel obtained by means of a shingling process involving hammering of puddled steel.
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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).
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.
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A word-based n-gram.
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A punitive strap such as a belt.
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Any paddle used for corporal punishment.
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Small, smooth pebbles, as found on a beach.
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A beach or other shore covered with loose, smooth pebbles.
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To cover with small, thin pieces of building material, with shingles.
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To cut, as hair, so that the ends are evenly exposed all over the head, like shingles on a roof.
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To increase the storage density of (a hard disk) by writing tracks that partially overlap.
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To hammer and squeeze material in order to expel cinder and impurities from it, as in metallurgy.
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To beat with a shingle.
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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.
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