shingle
ˈʃɪŋgəl-
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cover with shingles "shingle a roof" -
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a small signboard outside the office of a lawyer or doctor, e.g. -
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coarse beach gravel of small waterworn stones and pebbles (or a stretch of shore covered with such gravel) -
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building material used as siding or roofing
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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. "I reached St. Asaph, . . . where there is a very poor cathedral church covered with shingles or tiles." -
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(Geol) Round, water-worn, and loose gravel and pebbles, or a collection of roundish stones, such as are common on the seashore and elsewhere. -
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To cover with shingles; as, to shingle a roof. "They shingle their houses with it." -
Shingle
To cut, as hair, so that the ends are evenly exposed all over the head, as shingles on a roof. -
Shingle
To subject to the process of shindling, as a mass of iron from the pudding furnace.
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A thin piece of wood having parallel sides and being thicker at one end than the other, used like a tile or a slate in covering the sides and roofs of houses; a wooden tile. In the United States shingles are usually about 6 inches in width and 18 inches long, and are laid with one third of their length to the weather—that is, with 12 inches of cover and 6 inches of lap. -
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A small sign-board, especially that of a professional man: as, to hang out one's shingle. -
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To cover with shingles: as, to shingle a roof. -
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To cut (the hair) so that streaks of it overlap like rows of shingles; hence, to cut (the hair, or the hair of) very close. -
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In puddling iron, to hammer roughly or squeeze (the ball of metal). This is done after the ball is taken from the furnace, in order to press the slag out of it, and prepare it to be rolled into the desired shape. -
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A kind of water-worn detritus a little coarser than gravel: a term most generally used with reference to debris on the sea-shore, and much more commonly in the British Islands than in the United States. -
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Girth; hence, the waist; the middle.
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shing′gl wood sawed or split thin, used instead of slates or tiles, for roofing houses: -
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to cover with shingles: to crop the hair very close -
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shing′gl the coarse gravel on the shores of rivers or of the sea -
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shing′gl (U.S.) a small sign-board or plate
Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary OE. shingle, shindle, fr. L. scindula, scandula,; cf. scindere, to cleave, to split, E. shed, v. t., Gr. , , shingle, to slit
Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictionary Low L. scindula, a wooden tile—L. scindĕre, to split.
Martha Garcia/Colfax RecordWorking under a clear, dry sky, a crew from Larry Logan Roofing hangs shingles at St Dominic 's Church last week. colfaxrecord.com
Self- employed roofer Mark Blevins installs shingles May 16 on the roof of First Baptist Church on Winchester Street in Ashland, Ky. How Barack Obama won reelection. aberdeennews.com
Exploring beneath the shingles. eastbayri.com
Girls living in El Dorado Hills up to Shingle Springs ages 5 to 15 interested in playing can register at fgsl.org. edhtelegraph.com
Cannes laureates Michel Franco and Michael Rowe are teaming up to create "Hotel Garage" for the smallscreen in Mexico via Franco 's new shingle, Lucia Films. variety.com
Cannes laureates Michel Franco and Michael Rowe are teaming up to create "Hotel Garage" for the smallscreen in Mexico via Franco's new shingle, Lucia Films. variety.com
Warner Bros inks first-look deal with Gulfstream : New shingle launching with mix of US, Korean coin. chicagotribune.com
Replacement shingles, roofing cement and nails can cost $30. dailypress.com
El Dorado County sheriff's deputies responded to the Shingle Springs casino at 10:30 pm to a report of a stabbing. kcra.com
Shingle nabs rights to book on fateful brush with famed illusionist. variety.com
Pic about mistaken identity put Brit doc shingle into plexes. variety.com
NBCUniversal International will take a majority investment in Oz shingle Matchbox Pictures for an undisclosed sum. variety.com
Texas-based shingle starts with a piece of 'Dallas Buyers Club'. variety.com
GAF Monaco lifetime designer shingles. housingzone.com
It's also the perfect opportunity for you to try your hand at shingling. americanwoodworker.com
Ladders were formed from two CCDs placed end-to-end (with a small overlap in coverage) on opposite sides of a beryllium support beam, and arranged in 3 complete azimuthal layers, with a ‘shingled’ geometry to ensure no gaps in azimuth. 96 CCDS were used, giving a total count of 307M pixels.
R&D for a CCD Vertex Detector for the High Energy Linear e+e- Collider
The same paper needed a few tools for the similarity of documents such as shingles that we still use today.
On the Weakenesses of Correlation Measures used for Search Engines' Results (Unsupervised Comparison of Search Engine Rankings)
We actually use a signature of up to 1000 items (shingles), thus performing more a contents comparison than a probabilistic comparison, reducing to zero false positives.
On the Weakenesses of Correlation Measures used for Search Engines' Results (Unsupervised Comparison of Search Engine Rankings)
We kept a unique copy of any element in the final lists: the duplication test was done using the shingling technique [3, 15] over the landing page contents of the URLs (see § 5.3 for details).
On the Weakenesses of Correlation Measures used for Search Engines' Results (Unsupervised Comparison of Search Engine Rankings)
In other words, in Eq. 3, the sets Uσ and Uπ contained shingles rather than terms.
On the Weakenesses of Correlation Measures used for Search Engines' Results (Unsupervised Comparison of Search Engine Rankings)
Below, on the piled shingle, a man stood alone, staring out over the darkness, motionless and absorbed. "The Swindler and Other Stories" by
Shingle the roof in the decrease of the moon, so the shingles will lie flat ("go down"). "Current Superstitions" by
There wasn't no such things as shingles. "Slave Narratives: a Folk History of Slavery in the United States From Interviews with Former Slaves" by
So they rode on down the hill and along the shingled beach that edged a lagoon. "The Mermaid" by
He advanced alone across the black shingle and she stood watching him and listening to the stones crunching beneath his feet. "The Beach of Dreams" by
When noon came he was working away on the roof, tearing the old shingles off with a spade. "Wayside Courtships" by
Now we were at the land and the keel of our boat grated on the shingle. "Simon Dale" by
He had a case of shingles. "Torchy As A Pa" by
Once again the beach was a wide expanse of shingle, drying fast under a sun hotter than any Shann had yet known on Warlock. "Storm Over Warlock" by
Shingle-bolts are also made from crooked or otherwise imperfect logs. "Handwork in Wood" by
And she'll hear my step on the land,
And the corncrake deep in the meadow
Will tell her that I'm at hand!
Softly the ripples curve and creep;
Without the white-caps meet and mingle,
Without the breakers range and leap.
The thrushes chanted to the evening sky;
Still the grey wagtails raced across the shingle
As they went by.
'Mid tins upon the shingle;
I seem to hear that chorus shrill:
"Young man, go forth and mingle!"
And yet, 'tis naught to what I feel
Whene'er I hear Belinda squeal.
Whether sheltered by slate, or by "shake," or by shingle--
God bless you with peace and with bountiful cheer,
Happy houses, happy hearts--and a happy New Year!
Then for walls and for ceilings its wood was the best;
And for shingles and palings to last while men be,
There was nothing on earth like the stringy-bark tree.