Shingle

['ʃɪŋg(ə)l] or ['ʃɪŋɡl]

解释:

(noun.) a small signboard outside the office of a lawyer or doctor, e.g..

(noun.) coarse beach gravel of small waterworn stones and pebbles (or a stretch of shore covered with such gravel).

(noun.) building material used as siding or roofing.

(verb.) cover with shingles; 'shingle a roof'.

录入:洛伦佐--From WordNet

解释:

(n.) Round, water-worn, and loose gravel and pebbles, or a collection of roundish stones, such as are common on the seashore and elsewhere.

(n.) 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.

(n.) A sign for an office or a shop; as, to hang out one's shingle.

(v. t.) To cover with shingles; as, to shingle a roof.

(v. t.) To cut, as hair, so that the ends are evenly exposed all over the head, as shingles on a roof.

(v. t.) To subject to the process of shindling, as a mass of iron from the pudding furnace.

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解释:

n. the coarse gravel on the shores of rivers or of the sea.—adj. Shing′ly.

n. wood sawed or split thin used instead of slates or tiles for roofing houses: (U.S.) a small sign-board or plate.—v.t. to cover with shingles: to crop the hair very close.—adjs. Shing′led Shing′le-roofed having the roof covered with shingles.—ns. Shing′ler; Shing′ling.

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