shingle

Tanımlar (İngilizce)

1. isim 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”

2. isim A rectangular piece of steel obtained by means of a shingling process involving hammering of puddled steel.
3. isim 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. isim 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.”

5. fiil To cover with small, thin pieces of building material, with shingles.
6. fiil To cut, as hair, so that the ends are evenly exposed all over the head, like shingles on a roof.
7. fiil To increase the storage density of (a hard disk) by writing tracks that partially overlap.
8. fiil To hammer and squeeze material in order to expel cinder and impurities from it, as in metallurgy.
9. fiil To beat with a shingle.
10. isim A punitive strap such as a belt.
11. isim Any paddle used for corporal punishment.
12. isim Small, smooth pebbles, as found on a beach.

    “And naked shingles of the world.”

13. isim A beach or other shore covered with loose, smooth pebbles.

    “Underneath a black cliff where the incoming tide smashed on the shingle, they stumbled upon the mail hood of Hrothgar's murdered vassal.”