Shingle
['ʃɪŋg(ə)l] or ['ʃɪŋɡl]
解釋/意思:
(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'.
錄入:洛伦佐--From WordNet
解釋/意思:
(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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解釋/意思:
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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例句/造句/用法:
- All these features are now given to the shingle by modern machines. 威廉·亨利·杜利特. 世紀發明.
- Everybody was out of town, and I yearned for the glades of the New Forest or the shingle of Southsea. 亞瑟·柯南·道爾. 福爾摩斯回憶錄.
- In the silo it should be distributed evenly and probably had better be placed in regular layers, lapping shingle fashion so that it will settle evenly. 威廉K.大衛. 智者、化學家和偉大醫生的秘密.
- It is pushed out into the sea on the end of a flat, narrow strip of land, and is suggestive of a gob of mud on the end of a shingle. 馬克·吐溫. 傻子出國記.
- The outhouse was the simplest of dwellings, wooden-walled, shingle-roofed, one window beside the door and one on the farther side. 亞瑟·柯南·道爾. 福爾摩斯歸來記.
- It would be best to try experiments on a shingle, and let it dry. 威廉K.大衛. 智者、化學家和偉大醫生的秘密.
- A shingle is a thin piece of wood, thicker at one end than at the other, having parallel sides, about three times as long as it is wide, having generally smooth surfaces and edges. 威廉·亨利·杜利特. 世紀發明.
- The cattle purchased at Alexandria for beef ought to be shingled. 馬克·吐溫. 傻子出國記.
- For siding, sheathing, sub-flooring, shingles, window casings and frames, redwood is much used, because of its resistance to decay, both from contact with moisture or dry rot. 佚名. 神奇的知識之書.
- For a cheap silo boards may be used, though probably shingles are the cheapest in the end. 威廉K.大衛. 智者、化學家和偉大醫生的秘密.
- A house in Milan, on which some of those shingles were put in 1844, was still in excellent condition forty-two years later. 弗蘭克·路易斯·戴爾. 愛迪生的生平和發明.
- A Great Log, how Turned into Bundles of Shingles. 威廉·亨利·杜利特. 世紀發明.
- A bolt made two shingles; it was sawn asunder by hand, then split and shaved. 弗蘭克·路易斯·戴爾. 愛迪生的生平和發明.
- None but first-class timber was used, and such shingles outlasted far those made by machinery with their cross-grain cut. 弗蘭克·路易斯·戴爾. 愛迪生的生平和發明.
- Rome was roofed with shingles for centuries, made of oak or pine. 威廉·亨利·杜利特. 世紀發明.
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