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Määritelmät

Substantiivi

1. 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.
2. A punitive strap such as a belt.
3. Small, smooth pebbles, as found on a beach.
4. A rectangular piece of steel obtained by means of a shingling process involving hammering of puddled steel.
5. (by extension) Any paddle used for corporal punishment.
6. 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).
7. (computational linguistics) A word-based n-gram.

Verbi

1. (transitive) To cover with small, thin pieces of building material, with shingles.
2. (transitive, manufacturing) To hammer and squeeze material in order to expel cinder and impurities from it, as in metallurgy.
3. (transitive) To cut, as hair, so that the ends are evenly exposed all over the head, like shingles on a roof.
4. (transitive) To beat with a shingle.
5. (transitive) To increase the storage density of (a hard disk) by writing tracks that partially overlap.