shingle

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Every time a shingle is added to the gimcrack, ramshackle governance structure that we're propping up, another door falls off its hinges.

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  1. noun A thin oblong piece of material, such as wood or slate, that is laid in overlapping rows to cover the roof or sides of a house or other building.
  2. noun Informal A small signboard, as one indicating a professional office: After passing the bar exam, she hung out her shingle.
  3. noun A woman's close-cropped haircut.
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  • Every time a shingle is added to the gimcrack, ramshackle governance structure that we're propping up, another door falls off its hinges. —  Dawg's Blawg
  • This season, Kutcher and his Katalyst shingle are also behind an untitled CW skein focusing on pageants -- and co-produced by Tyra Banks. —  Variety.com
  • At low tide, the mud and the shingle is exposed, and it looks like a sluggish stream - but six hours later, it's less than a metre from the top of the embankments and there are ominous whirlpools that suggest that falling in would be a Very Bad Idea indeed. —  adoption curve dot net
  • This article shows you the four main steps you must follow before you put up your virtual shingle, and that you must continue following, an ever-improving cycle that will bring the success your enthusiasm deserves. —  Find Free Articles - ArticlesBase
  • Their Shine Global shingle, a nonprofit aimed at ending child exploitation and abuse, received an Oscar nomination for the 2007 feature doc "War Dance." —  Variety.com
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  1. Middle English, from Old English scindel, scingal, from Late Latin scindula, alteration of Latin scandula (influenced by scindere, to split).
  2. Middle English.

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  1. from Middle English shingle, shyngyl, shyngul, scingle, single, a corruption of shindle, shindel: see shindle. The cause of the change is not obvious; some confusion with single, a., or with shingle, orig. *single, or with some Old French word, may be conjectured. It is noteworthy that all the words spelled shingle (shingle, shingle, shingles) are corrupted in form.
  2. from Middle English schinglen; from shingle, n.
  3. An altered form, apparently simulating shingle (with which the word is generally confused), of * single, from Norwegian singel (also singling), coarse gravel, shingle, so called from the ‘singing’ or crunching noise made by walking on it; from singla = Swedish dial. singla, ring, tinkle (cf. singla-skälla, a bell for a horse's neck; singel, bell-clapper), freq. form of singa, Swedish sjunga = Icelandic syngja, sing, = Anglo-Saxon singan, later English sing: see sing. Cf. singing sands, moving sands that make a ringing sound.
  4. A corrupt form of * single, early modern English also sengle, properly cingle, from Old French cengle, sengle, sangle, French sangle, from Latin cingula, girdle, girth: see cingle, surcingle. Hence shingles.
 

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