Plural of shingle

Forms of shingle

Shingles in a sentence

• In the second phase, we produce a list of all the shingles and the documents they appear in, sorted by shingle value.1997 September 1, Andrei Z. Broder, Steven C. Glassman, Mark S. Manasse, Geoffrey Zweig, “Syntactic clustering of the Web”, in Computer...
• Patch shingles on the barn roof: do we have a maul and froe?1997, Charles Frazier, chapter 4, in Cold Mountain, London: Hodder and Stoughton, page 88. From the entry froe
• I walked slowly toward the house, a gray one covered in asbestos shingles.1988, Diana O'Hehir, The bride who ran away, Atheneum, page 133. From the entry wetmop
• First, I replaced the old roof completely, removing the shingles and rejoisting the framework.1976, Old-House Journal, volume 4, number 8, page 2. From the entry rejoist
• Middle Harbour feature shingles mine to make a French authoress behave unladylikely.1955 March 8, “Crossword Puzzle No. 1827 and Solution to 1826”, in The Sydney Morning Herald, number 36,570, Sydney, N.S.W., page 14. From the entry unladylikely

Meaning of shingle

1. noun 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. noun A rectangular piece of steel obtained by means of a shingling process involving hammering of puddled steel.
3. noun 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).

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Questions about the plural of shingle

What is the plural of shingle?

The plural of shingle is shingles.

Is shingle countable?

Shingle is a countable noun.