shingle

Meanings

1. 1
   verb

   cover with shingles

   Shingle a roof.

2. 2
   noun

   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.

   I reached St. Asaph, a Bishop's See, where there is a very poor Cathedral Church, covered with Shingles or Tiles.

3. 3
   noun

   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).

   He [...] hung a shingle as a barber.

4. 4
   noun

   A word-based n-gram.

   In the second phase, we produce a list of all the shingles and the documents they appear in, sorted by shingle value.

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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