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noun ˈʃɪŋɡ(ə)lˈʃɪŋɡəl mass nounA mass of small rounded pebbles, especially on a seashore. （尤指海滨的）鹅卵石 a wonderful beach of fine shingle as modifier natural features like sand dunes and shingle banks Example sentencesExamples - There were also sand dunes and shingle banks that were later used for building roads in the new town.
- There are shingle beaches where grayling spawn, rattling rapids and wooded islands that spread wide the flow.
- Also look for shingle banks, areas of mixed mud and stony ground that holds numbers of dabs, and the ends of headlands that jut out to sea where a tide race forms.
- The Rio Gallegos provides perfect spawning beds through small pea shingle pebbles, while the lack of large rocks means there are few obstacles to the Sea Trout migrating upstream.
- Most of the Thames Bank is shingle and stone so sand is relatively rare.
- The action takes place against a bank of shingle, representing a Cornish beach, and the design is almost monochrome - perhaps seeking to evoke the success of the movie.
- Green turtles can be observed in the waters from July to the end of September, when they come ashore to nest on the sand and shingle beaches on the island's eastern side.
- Probable reasons for this disappearance are a change in climate and more importantly, an increase in human disturbance on their breeding haunts of shingle beaches.
- And we use the foreshore for seaweed, sand and shingle.
- The seabed here is made up of heavy granite pebbles and shingle, so the visibility is often very good.
- Descending the shotline the Brighton emerged at around 40m on a sand and shingle seabed at 48m.
- I find soft, powdery sand, hard sand, loose shingle banks and a couple of streams.
- The favoured stretch of shingle beach and marram was again fenced off.
- What would happen if the sand or shingle was too fine to allow the movement of vehicles on the beaches?
- The gradients associated with these profiles also vary between sand and shingle beaches, the latter being generally steeper.
- Mostly it's sand, sometimes a fine shingle, sometimes pebbles of every hue, and here and there flat shale for skimming the waves.
- The tide has driven multitudes of waders onto the shell and shingle banks, where a long line of roosting birds shuffles restlessly.
- The shingle banks were wonderful, like frozen waves perhaps six feet from trough to crest; you could walk along a trough as it were beneath the landscape, invisible.
- They'll settle for shingle banks with light weed growth and this tends to be the type of ground they are feeding over when you're fishing off steep sandy beaches.
- In Norfolk they are to be seen most regularly in the neighbourhood of Cley and Blakeney, on the landward slopes of shingle banks and on rough grassy ground behind.
Synonyms seaside, seashore, shore, coast, coastline, coastal region, seaboard, foreshore, water's edge, margin
OriginLate Middle English: of unknown origin. With the meaning ‘a rectangular wooden tile used on walls or roofs’, shingle probably goes back to Latin scandula ‘split piece of wood’. In the early 19th century the word developed the meaning ‘a piece of board’, and in the USA in particular ‘a small signboard’. To hang out your shingle, an American expression for ‘to begin to practise a profession’, refers to a doctor or lawyer hanging up a sign outside their office advertising their professional services. The shingle on a seashore is a different word, whose origin is unknown, and the painful medical condition shingles is different again. Its origin is medieval Latin cingulus ‘belt, girdle’, a reference to the blisters that appear in a band around the body.
Rhymescommingle, cringle, dingle, Fingal, intermingle, jingle, mingle, single, swingle, tingle noun ˈʃɪŋɡ(ə)lˈʃɪŋɡəl 1A rectangular wooden tile used on walls or roofs. 墙面板；木瓦 Example sentencesExamples - Check that your roof isn't missing any shingles, tiles, slates or nails.
- Ice dams will force moisture under roof shingles where it can drip into the attic or walls.
- Traditional rural houses have roofs of red tiles, corrugated tin, or wooden shingles.
- Solar shingles and roofing tiles now can serve as both roof and electric generators.
- Roofs may be covered with tiles, wooden shingles, or zinc sheets.
- There are also pre-fabricated, light-colored tiles, shingles or metal sheets to replace old roof materials.
- So far, the recycled products include, among others, plastic railroad ties, construction sheeting and roof shingles.
- On the exterior, they replaced the fiberglass wall shingles with stained cedar shakes and put in oversized, divided-light windows.
- It is advantageous in that it protects the waterproofing from damage by ultraviolet radiation, and precludes the need for tiles or other shingles.
- Constructed with fire retardant cedar roof shingles and exterior walls made of rough-hewn lumber, it is the quintessential ski retreat.
- Composite or fiberglass shingles is the most common roofing now in use.
- Roof tiles or shingles decorate buildings in the Harley where none existed previously.
- They also replaced the house's aging brown-shingle roof with black shingles for house and porch.
- Consider natural roofing alternatives, such as slate or tile, or high-tech shingles made with recycled materials.
- By 1994 the exterior siding was installed and the roof shingles were complete.
- Remove enough of the roof shingles, tiles, gravel, or other roofing material down to the tar paper.
- If your house originally had wooden shingles, maybe a brown colored asphalt shingle would work best.
- Treated wood shingles may leach toxic preservatives, and asphalt shingles may leach small amounts of petroleum compounds.
- Because of the short lifespan of the shingles, they are slowly being replaced by galvanized metal roof sheets.
- Seal flashing around roof stacks and vents, between roof valley flashing and shingles, and around roof additions and skylights.
2dated A woman's short haircut in which the hair tapers from the back of the head to the nape of the neck. 〈旧〉（女子）墙面板式短发发型 3North American A small signboard, especially one found outside a doctor's or lawyer's office. 〈北美〉（医生或律师办公室外的）小招牌 Example sentencesExamples - The shingle on his door says that he is a Jungian analyst.
- So, I'll leave my shingle hanging outside this virtual stoop a while longer.
- But he was never the small-time lawyer, with only a desk and a shingle, that some made him out to be.
- This is my only reason for justifying the shingle hanging outside in the boulevard.
verb ˈʃɪŋɡ(ə)lˈʃɪŋɡəl [with object]1Roof or clad with shingles. 用木瓦盖…的屋顶；给…贴墙面板 yesterday we fastened in the steel framework and shingled the roof Example sentencesExamples - Hell, if the guy wanted me to, I'd shingle his roof for an extra hundred bucks.
- Once the flat planes of the roof have been shingled, you will need to apply the hip shingles, if you have a hip roof, which will be overlapped by the ridge shingles.
- Steep cliffs behind the field are shingled with carbonate.
- Now, thanks to advances in photovoltaic technology, it's possible to shingle your roof with solar tiles.
- I shingled it all over and made one half a rose garden, which were her favourite flowers, and decorated the rest with the ornaments.
- A small wood shingled A frame, it was solidly encased by trees, hidden from view.
- Clad externally in stainless steel panels at the street and a silver grey terracotta shingled rainscreen above, the windows vary in size.
- Finally the grader came along and levelled and shingled the road.
- Other features that reinforce the mudroom's indoor-outdoor feeling are shingled interior walls and a radiant-heated slate-tile floor.
- Scrolls of smoke unfurled from three stone chimneys set amidst steep shingled gables.
- It was log cabin style, as all of ours were, but the roof was shingled with crumbling slate, a pattern that resembled dragons scales.
- The guy who poured the concrete knew he was better at concrete than the guys who installed the cabinets who knew they were better at carpentry than the guy who shingled the roof.
- The inn is a collection of four shingled buildings, each uniquely configured with three or four rooms connected to one another by paths through native gardens of salal and rhododendron.
- The outside, barely seen by the light of the eerie street lamps, was old and darkly shingled, with a thatched roof, and a smoking chimney.
- The roof was shingled with maroon tiles, and the chimney was made mostly of red brick.
- I had played there when I was little, and took care to keep the roof shingled after Jane and I moved in.
- Exterior walls are shingled, except at the taller central-garden facade, where contrasting white-painted wood siding calls attention to the home's addition.
- So, after two years and $1.4 billion of preparation this is where we're at: a bunch of skilled scientists doing the outer-space equivalent of shingling a roof.
- Equally lovely was the modest farmhouse itself; its wooden walls were painted alabaster and its brown roof was shingled with wide, ridged tiles.
- The roof was shingled with Lake Superior Cedar and indulged in galvanized iron trimmings.
2dated Cut (a woman's hair) in a shingle. 〈旧〉把（女子头发）剪成墙面板式短发发型 women began to bob their hair immediately after the war and were shingling it by 1925 Example sentencesExamples - And although shingled hair was wildly popular in the period, it still seems to have connoted rejection of traditional relationships.
- My hair is shingled, and the longest strands are about nine inches long.
- He had taken a liking to my mother, who looked more forward than she was, with her shingled hair and very short skirt showing a lot of silk stocking.
PhrasesBegin to practise a profession. 〈北美〉挂牌开业，开始营业 a license to hang out their shingle as a financial adviser Example sentencesExamples - He negotiated a good lease, and hung out his shingle in an upscale neighborhood.
- The Los Angeles Angels hung out their shingle to little fanfare in 1961 as an American League expansion franchise.
- He carted them all back to his rent-stabilized walk-up on the Upper East Side and hung out his shingle in 1983.
- We should be able to hang out our shingle like any other professional.
- He hung out his shingle in 1988 and has never been a member of the Society of Fire Protection Engineers because they do not represent his interests.
- Any would-be US candidate hangs out their shingle in the resigned knowledge that the opposing dirt unit will go like hell, as would theirs.
- After that, he hung out his shingle as a consultant.
- ‘Everything was great,’ she says of life before hanging out her shingle in 1999.
- Those who hang out their shingle without this knowledge, perpetrate the myth that skill acquisition is not necessary.
- In mid-2001, Lucy again hung out her shingle and offered psychiatric help for five cents.
Synonyms work at, pursue a career in, have a career in, go in for, engage in, specialize in, ply, follow
informal (of a person) stupid or slightly mad. he reacted in a manner which clearly showed that he was a shingle short Example sentencesExamples - I'm afraid my grandson is a shingle short.
- You must be a shingle short to ask what he's about!
- I'm not keen on someone who's a shingle short living so close to my kids.
- He had had to undergo a lot of abuse, and his fellow-dairymen had looked upon him as a man who was a shingle short.
- This lad was regarded in the town as being called 'a shingle short'.
OriginMiddle English (as a noun): apparently from Latin scindula, earlier scandula 'a split piece of wood'. nounˈSHiNGɡəlˈʃɪŋɡəl A mass of small rounded pebbles, especially on a seashore. （尤指海滨的）鹅卵石 a wonderful beach of fine shingle as modifier natural features like sand dunes and shingle banks Example sentencesExamples - Mostly it's sand, sometimes a fine shingle, sometimes pebbles of every hue, and here and there flat shale for skimming the waves.
- The tide has driven multitudes of waders onto the shell and shingle banks, where a long line of roosting birds shuffles restlessly.
- The Rio Gallegos provides perfect spawning beds through small pea shingle pebbles, while the lack of large rocks means there are few obstacles to the Sea Trout migrating upstream.
- There are shingle beaches where grayling spawn, rattling rapids and wooded islands that spread wide the flow.
- Also look for shingle banks, areas of mixed mud and stony ground that holds numbers of dabs, and the ends of headlands that jut out to sea where a tide race forms.
- The seabed here is made up of heavy granite pebbles and shingle, so the visibility is often very good.
- Descending the shotline the Brighton emerged at around 40m on a sand and shingle seabed at 48m.
- Green turtles can be observed in the waters from July to the end of September, when they come ashore to nest on the sand and shingle beaches on the island's eastern side.
- The favoured stretch of shingle beach and marram was again fenced off.
- They'll settle for shingle banks with light weed growth and this tends to be the type of ground they are feeding over when you're fishing off steep sandy beaches.
- Most of the Thames Bank is shingle and stone so sand is relatively rare.
- The action takes place against a bank of shingle, representing a Cornish beach, and the design is almost monochrome - perhaps seeking to evoke the success of the movie.
- Probable reasons for this disappearance are a change in climate and more importantly, an increase in human disturbance on their breeding haunts of shingle beaches.
- And we use the foreshore for seaweed, sand and shingle.
- In Norfolk they are to be seen most regularly in the neighbourhood of Cley and Blakeney, on the landward slopes of shingle banks and on rough grassy ground behind.
- There were also sand dunes and shingle banks that were later used for building roads in the new town.
- The gradients associated with these profiles also vary between sand and shingle beaches, the latter being generally steeper.
- I find soft, powdery sand, hard sand, loose shingle banks and a couple of streams.
- The shingle banks were wonderful, like frozen waves perhaps six feet from trough to crest; you could walk along a trough as it were beneath the landscape, invisible.
- What would happen if the sand or shingle was too fine to allow the movement of vehicles on the beaches?
Synonyms seaside, seashore, shore, coast, coastline, coastal region, seaboard, foreshore, water's edge, margin
OriginLate Middle English: of unknown origin. nounˈSHiNGɡəlˈʃɪŋɡəl 1A rectangular tile of asphalt composite, wood, metal, or slate used on walls or roofs. 墙面板；木瓦 Example sentencesExamples - Check that your roof isn't missing any shingles, tiles, slates or nails.
- Roof tiles or shingles decorate buildings in the Harley where none existed previously.
- They also replaced the house's aging brown-shingle roof with black shingles for house and porch.
- Roofs may be covered with tiles, wooden shingles, or zinc sheets.
- Consider natural roofing alternatives, such as slate or tile, or high-tech shingles made with recycled materials.
- So far, the recycled products include, among others, plastic railroad ties, construction sheeting and roof shingles.
- Treated wood shingles may leach toxic preservatives, and asphalt shingles may leach small amounts of petroleum compounds.
- Seal flashing around roof stacks and vents, between roof valley flashing and shingles, and around roof additions and skylights.
- It is advantageous in that it protects the waterproofing from damage by ultraviolet radiation, and precludes the need for tiles or other shingles.
- If your house originally had wooden shingles, maybe a brown colored asphalt shingle would work best.
- There are also pre-fabricated, light-colored tiles, shingles or metal sheets to replace old roof materials.
- Constructed with fire retardant cedar roof shingles and exterior walls made of rough-hewn lumber, it is the quintessential ski retreat.
- Composite or fiberglass shingles is the most common roofing now in use.
- By 1994 the exterior siding was installed and the roof shingles were complete.
- Ice dams will force moisture under roof shingles where it can drip into the attic or walls.
- Remove enough of the roof shingles, tiles, gravel, or other roofing material down to the tar paper.
- Because of the short lifespan of the shingles, they are slowly being replaced by galvanized metal roof sheets.
- On the exterior, they replaced the fiberglass wall shingles with stained cedar shakes and put in oversized, divided-light windows.
- Traditional rural houses have roofs of red tiles, corrugated tin, or wooden shingles.
- Solar shingles and roofing tiles now can serve as both roof and electric generators.
2dated A woman's short haircut in which the hair tapers from the back of the head to the nape of the neck. 〈旧〉（女子）墙面板式短发发型 3North American A small signboard, especially one found outside a doctor's or lawyer's office. 〈北美〉（医生或律师办公室外的）小招牌 Example sentencesExamples - The shingle on his door says that he is a Jungian analyst.
- So, I'll leave my shingle hanging outside this virtual stoop a while longer.
- But he was never the small-time lawyer, with only a desk and a shingle, that some made him out to be.
- This is my only reason for justifying the shingle hanging outside in the boulevard.
verbˈSHiNGɡəlˈʃɪŋɡəl [with object]1Roof or clad with shingles. 用木瓦盖…的屋顶；给…贴墙面板 yesterday we fastened in the steel framework and shingled the roof Example sentencesExamples - Other features that reinforce the mudroom's indoor-outdoor feeling are shingled interior walls and a radiant-heated slate-tile floor.
- Clad externally in stainless steel panels at the street and a silver grey terracotta shingled rainscreen above, the windows vary in size.
- The inn is a collection of four shingled buildings, each uniquely configured with three or four rooms connected to one another by paths through native gardens of salal and rhododendron.
- Now, thanks to advances in photovoltaic technology, it's possible to shingle your roof with solar tiles.
- Exterior walls are shingled, except at the taller central-garden facade, where contrasting white-painted wood siding calls attention to the home's addition.
- Finally the grader came along and levelled and shingled the road.
- I shingled it all over and made one half a rose garden, which were her favourite flowers, and decorated the rest with the ornaments.
- Steep cliffs behind the field are shingled with carbonate.
- Hell, if the guy wanted me to, I'd shingle his roof for an extra hundred bucks.
- So, after two years and $1.4 billion of preparation this is where we're at: a bunch of skilled scientists doing the outer-space equivalent of shingling a roof.
- The roof was shingled with Lake Superior Cedar and indulged in galvanized iron trimmings.
- The roof was shingled with maroon tiles, and the chimney was made mostly of red brick.
- Scrolls of smoke unfurled from three stone chimneys set amidst steep shingled gables.
- I had played there when I was little, and took care to keep the roof shingled after Jane and I moved in.
- Once the flat planes of the roof have been shingled, you will need to apply the hip shingles, if you have a hip roof, which will be overlapped by the ridge shingles.
- Equally lovely was the modest farmhouse itself; its wooden walls were painted alabaster and its brown roof was shingled with wide, ridged tiles.
- It was log cabin style, as all of ours were, but the roof was shingled with crumbling slate, a pattern that resembled dragons scales.
- The guy who poured the concrete knew he was better at concrete than the guys who installed the cabinets who knew they were better at carpentry than the guy who shingled the roof.
- The outside, barely seen by the light of the eerie street lamps, was old and darkly shingled, with a thatched roof, and a smoking chimney.
- A small wood shingled A frame, it was solidly encased by trees, hidden from view.
2dated Cut (a woman's hair) in a shingle. 〈旧〉把（女子头发）剪成墙面板式短发发型 Example sentencesExamples - And although shingled hair was wildly popular in the period, it still seems to have connoted rejection of traditional relationships.
- My hair is shingled, and the longest strands are about nine inches long.
- He had taken a liking to my mother, who looked more forward than she was, with her shingled hair and very short skirt showing a lot of silk stocking.
PhrasesBegin to practice a profession. 〈北美〉挂牌开业，开始营业 Example sentencesExamples - He hung out his shingle in 1988 and has never been a member of the Society of Fire Protection Engineers because they do not represent his interests.
- After that, he hung out his shingle as a consultant.
- The Los Angeles Angels hung out their shingle to little fanfare in 1961 as an American League expansion franchise.
- Any would-be US candidate hangs out their shingle in the resigned knowledge that the opposing dirt unit will go like hell, as would theirs.
- In mid-2001, Lucy again hung out her shingle and offered psychiatric help for five cents.
- He negotiated a good lease, and hung out his shingle in an upscale neighborhood.
- We should be able to hang out our shingle like any other professional.
- He carted them all back to his rent-stabilized walk-up on the Upper East Side and hung out his shingle in 1983.
- Those who hang out their shingle without this knowledge, perpetrate the myth that skill acquisition is not necessary.
- ‘Everything was great,’ she says of life before hanging out her shingle in 1999.
Synonyms work at, pursue a career in, have a career in, go in for, engage in, specialize in, ply, follow
OriginMiddle English (as a noun): apparently from Latin scindula, earlier scandula ‘a split piece of wood’. |