shingle
22
5.2
- noun
- /ˈʃɪŋɡəl/
:
teja
- The house was beautifully designed with weathered shingles that added charm and character.
- roof shingles
- asphalt shingles
- tar and shingles
The common sorrow made murderous simply by nailing the shingles tight and caulking with the tar always boiling Outback all possible cracks.
- The common sorrow made murderous simply by nailing the shingles tight and caulking with the tar always boiling Outback all possible cracks.
- You can make a roof with wooden shingles, which are just wooden tiles, or you can thatch a roof, but it's nothing like as durable as a tiled roof.
Examples
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You just put the shingles down, nail them down.
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You can use wooden shingles to cover your roof and protect your house from rain.
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Now, would you kindly hand me those shingles?
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He came out, replaced all that broken shingle and resealed everything the way we wanted it done and then we paid him.
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On the short, sloping roof, Stephen stands hammering a shingle back into place.
Fiction book (1991) -
Mr. Ashton, we need bricks, we need lumber, we need shingles and plenty of cement because we will build a school and a hospital.
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People crouched atop their own houses and ripped off shingles, whole sheets at a time.
Fiction book (1999) -
I've been up on a steep roof since seven a.m., laying shingles and sweating.
Fiction book (1996) -
The house was a restored Victorian, white clapboard and green shingles, gingerbread trim.
Fiction book (1990) -
Jim and Megan, both exhausted, unload a big stack of roofing shingles from their station wagon.
Fiction book (1990)
Synonyms
4
8.3
A thin split piece of wood used to cover a roof or wall
1
3.4
A thin flat or curved piece used to cover the top of a house and keep out rain
Idioms
Compounds
How Durable
1
3.9
22
5.2
Surface Forms
Etymology
Shingle (noun, roofing) comes from the old word scindel meaning 'thin piece of wood', so a shingle is a thin, flat piece used in overlapping rows to cover roofs or sides of buildings.