Shingle

Definition: Shingle

Shingle

Noun

1. Building material used as siding or roofing.

2. Coarse beach gravel of small water-worn 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.

Verb

1. Cover with shingles; "shingle a roof".

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

Date "shingle" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1823. (references)

Synonym: Shingle

Abode

House, mansion, place, villa, cottage, box, lodge, hermitage, rus in urbe, folly, rotunda, tower, chateau, castle, pavilion, hotel, court, manor-house, capital messuage, hall, palace; kiosk, bungalow; casa, country seat, apartment house, flat house, frame house, shingle house, tenement house; temple.

Materials

Noun: material, raw material, stuff, stock, staple; adobe, brown stone; chinking; clapboard; daubing; puncheon; shake; shingle, bricks and mortar; metal; stone; clay, brick crockery; compo, composition; concrete; reinforced concrete, cement; wood, ore, timber.

Pulverulence

Powder, dust, sand, shingle; sawdust; grit; meal, bran, flour, farina, rice, paddy, spore, sporule; crumb, seed, grain; particle. (smallness); limature, filings, debris, detritus, tailings, talus slope, scobs, magistery, fine powder; flocculi.

Crosswords: Shingle

Books

• Ecology of Dunes, Salt Marsh and Shingle (reference)

• Shingle Style and the Stick Style: Architectural Theory&Design from Richardson to the Origins of Wright (reference)

• Shingle Style: 155 Home Plans from Classic Colonials to Breezy Bungalows (reference)

• Shingle Styles: Innovation and Tradition in American Architecture 1874 to 1982 (reference)

• The Shingle Beach (reference)

  (more book examples)

Consumer Goods

• Shingle Shark 1000Q Shingle Cutter (reference)

• Shingle Shear 2001-RB Shingle Cutter Replacement Blade (reference)

  (more baby examples; more wireless phone examples; more garden examples; more kitchen examples; more tool examples)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Law office shingle - Either lawyer humor or an avid fisherman. Credit: America's Coastlines.

Shingle Reservoir in Orejana Wilderness Study Area. OR 1-78. Credit: Harmon.

Front east elevation. Measured drawing by Thomas B. Schubert, 1969. (Reproduction Number: HABS, RI-308, sheet 4 of 8; negative number LC-USZA1-390) In the late nineteenth century, Newport, Rhode Island, became famous as a summer resort for wealthy Americans, many of whom built Newport "cottages" in the latest architectural styles. The Isaac Bell House is an important early example of the Shingle Style, a style of Victorian architecture popular in the late nineteenth century and named after the decorative shingles used on the exterior. The designers of the Bell House, the architects McKim, Mead, & White, designed several important buildings in Newport and elsewhere, including Madison Square Garden and the original Pennsylvania Station in New York City. Credit: Library of Congress.

Lower Saranac Lake from Shingle Bay Point, Adirondack Mountains. Credit: Library of Congress.

Source: pictures compiled by the editor from various references; see picture credits.

One night the wind loosened a shingle and flipped it to the ground

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Economic History

Ukraine

Low market demand is evident for: imported cement, bricks (domestic production is abundant), clay roofing shingles (customers desire metal shingles or asbestos roofing materials), asphalt shingle, bituminous sarking and tar paper. (references)

Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits.

Expressions using "shingle": hang out one's shingle ♦ shingle oak ♦ shingle roof ♦ Shingle Springs ♦ shingle tree. Additional references.

Beginning with "shingle": shingle-headed.

Ending with "shingle": Sh-shingle.

Albanian

zall (gravel, grit), mbuloj me dhoga, guralecë, furde (floosie), dhogë, dërrasë (batten, board, bred, plank, planking), ballanike. (various references)

Arabic 

‏كسا سقفا بالخشب, ‏موضع كثير الحصى, ‏لوحة خشبية, ‏لوح خشبي (board), ‏قصة شعر قصيرة, ‏قص الشعر قصا قصيرا, ‏حصى (grit, pebble, stone), ‏أعطى بالخشب. (various references)

Bulgarian 

речен чакъл, фирма (business, facia, fascia, house, shebang, sign), тънка летва, тънка дъска, късо подстригана коса (crop), морски чакъл, бубикопф, подстригвам (cut smb.'s hair, give smb. a trim, shear, trim), дървени покривни плочки. (various references)

Chinese 

木�"� . (various references)

Czech

plážové oblázky, šindel. (various references)

Danish

singels (rounded material), singel, traespaan (particles, wooden roofing tile), tagspaan (wooden roofing tile), rullesten (boulder, cobble, pebble), ral (pebbles). (various references)

Dutch

dakplankje. (various references)

Esperanto

ŝindo. (various references)

Farsi 

پوشاندن(مج.), موی سرراازته زدن , توفال چوبی یاسیمانی وغیره , توفال کوبی کردن (Lath), توفال (Lath, Shim, Slat, Spall, Splint), تخته کوبی (Boarding). (various references)

Finnish

somero, päre (splint). (various references)

French

galets. (various references)

German

Schindel (clapboard), kiesel (flint, gravel, pebble, silicic), Dachschindel (wooden roofing tile). (various references)

Greek 

βότσαλο (cobble, pebble). (various references)

Hebrew 

תספורת קצר�" (crop), שפת �"ים (coastline, foreshore, littoral, seacoast, seashore, shore), אבן חצץ (gravel, pebble-stone), רעף עץ. (various references)

Hungarian

zsindely (billet, slat), nagyszemű kavics, névtábla (door-plate, name plate, nameplate, name-plate, nametag, plate), bubifrizura (Bob). (various references)

Italian

scandola (wooden roofing tile), ciottoli (balls, bars, grinding media, pebbles). (various references)

Japanese Kanji 

屋� �板 . (various references)

Japanese Katakana 

やねいた. (various references)

Korean 

지붕널 (shingles). (various references)

Manx

shillee (building aggregate, gravel, pebbles), baarey guilley. (various references)

Pig Latin

ingleshay.(various references)

Portuguese

telha (tile). (various references)

Romanian

tunsoare scurtã, tunde pãrul scurt, tunde bãieţeşte, tãia pãrul foarte scurt, prundiş (beach, grit, pebble), pietriş (breakstone, gravel, grit, metal), draniţã, şindrilã (chip, splinter), şiţã, acoperi cu şindrilã. (various references)

Russian 

крыть дранкой, кровельная драньщепа, короткая стрижка, гонт, галька (beach, boulder, jack-stone, pebble, pebble-stone, rubbish), дранка (lath, shingles). (various references)

Scottish

mal. (various references)

Serbo-Croatian

pokriti šindrom, ploča (panel, planch, plate, record, sheet, slab, tablet), krupan šljunak, kratko potšišati, šindra. (various references)

Spanish

tablilla (clapboard, slat, splint). (various references)

Swedish

takspån, klappersten. (various references)

Turkish

tabela (facia, name plate, plaque, plaquette, sign, signboard), kısa saç (bobbed hair), kısa kesmek (be brief, Bob, boil down, chop one's words, curtail, cut short, draw it fine, tell briefly, wrap it up), demiri döverek işlemek, alagarson saç, çatıyı padavra ile kaplamak, çatı padavrası, çakıllı sahil, çakıl (ballast, gravel, hard core, pebble, rubble). (various references)

Ukrainian

гонт, галька (boulder, pebble), обшивати гонтом, ляскати (clabber, clap, crack, slam, spat), покрівельна дранка. (various references)

Vietnamese 

mở phòng luật sư, kiểu tóc tỉa đuôi hơi điên. (various references)

scandula. (various references)

Derivations

Words beginning with "shingle": shingled, shingler, shinglers, shingles. (additional references)

Words ending with "shingle": reshingle. (additional references)

Words containing "shingle": reshingled, reshingles. (additional references)

Misspellings

"Shingle" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: chenglai, Hingle, Schwinge, Shagolle, Shange, shangle, shangre, shingal, shingals, Shingler, shinily, Shongwe, shringle, Shungsep, Tschingel. (additional references)

Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits.

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Direct Anagrams: english.

-1 letter: hinges, ingles, neighs, single, sleigh.

-2 letters: glens, heils, hinge, ingle, lenis, liens, lines, lings, neigh, nighs, segni, sengi, shiel, shine, singe, sling.

-3 letters: egis, elhi, engs, gels, gens, ghis, gien, gies, gins, glen, heil, hens, hies, hins, hisn, isle, legs, leis, lens, lien, lies, line, ling, lins, nigh, nils, shin, sigh, sign, sine.

+1 letter: fleshing, healings, heelings, helpings, leashing, lightens, shealing, shelling, shelving, shieling, shingled, shingler, shingles, welshing.

+2 letters: angelfish, ashlering, athelings, busheling, chiseling, englished, englishes, fleshings, hanseling, hirelings, hirseling, hosteling, houseling, lightness, narghiles, nargilehs, nightless, penlights, relishing, reshingle, shaveling, shealings, shearling, shelvings, shielding, shielings, shinglers, shlepping, shoveling, sleighing, sleuthing, wheelings.

+3 letters: anglerfish, blemishing, bushelling, chiselling, dishelming, earthlings, englishing, enlightens, flemishing, fletchings, handseling, hanselling, hirselling, hologynies, holstering, hostelling, houselling, languished, languisher, languishes, lengthiest, lengthwise, lighteners, lungfishes, metheglins, nightlifes, plenishing, reshingled, reshingles, ringhalses, scheduling, schlepping, shavelings, shearlings, sheltering, shovelling, shriveling, slathering, slightness, slithering, squelching, unleashing, unshelling, vetchlings.