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shingles


noun (used with a singular or plural verb) Pathology.

  1. a disease caused by the varicella-zoster virus, especially by reactivated virus in an older person, characterized by skin eruptions and pain along the course of involved sensory nerves.

noun

  1. a thin piece of wood, slate, metal, asbestos, or the like, usually oblong, laid in overlapping rows to cover the roofs and walls of buildings.
  2. a woman’s close-cropped haircut.
  3. Informal. a small signboard, especially as hung before a doctor’s or lawyer’s office.

verb (used with object), shin·gled, shin·gling.

  1. to cover with shingles, as a roof.
  2. to cut (hair) close to the head.

Idioms

  1. hang out one’s shingle, Informal. to establish a professional practice, especially in law or medicine; open an office.
  2. have/be a shingle short, Australian Slang. to be mentally disturbed, mad, or eccentric.

noun

  1. small, waterworn stones or pebbles such as lie in loose sheets or beds on a beach.
  2. a beach, riverbank, or other area covered with such small pebbles or stones.

verb (used with object), shin·gled, shin·gling. Metalworking.

  1. to hammer or squeeze (puddled iron) into a bloom or billet, eliminating as much slag as possible; knobble.

noun

  1. (functioning as singular) an acute viral disease affecting the ganglia of certain nerves, characterized by inflammation, pain, and skin eruptions along the course of the affected nerveTechnical names: herpes zoster, zoster

noun

  1. a thin rectangular tile, esp one made of wood, that is laid with others in overlapping rows to cover a roof or a wall
  2. a woman’s short-cropped hairstyle
  3. US and Canadian a small signboard or nameplate fixed outside the office of a doctor, lawyer, etc
  4. a shingle short Australian informal unintelligent or mentally subnormal

verb (tr)

  1. to cover (a roof or a wall) with shingles
  2. to cut (the hair) in a short-cropped style

noun

  1. coarse gravel, esp the pebbles found on beaches
  2. a place or area strewn with shingle

verb

  1. (tr) metallurgy to hammer or squeeze the slag out of (iron) after puddling in the production of wrought iron

n.“inflammatory disease of the skin,” late 14c., from Medieval Latin cingulus (loan-translation of Greek zoster “girdle”), variant of Latin cingulum “girdle,” from cingere “to gird” (see cinch (n.)). The inflammation often extends around the middle of the body, like a girdle. n.1“thin piece of wood,” c.1200, scincle, from Late Latin scindula (also the source of German Schindel), altered (by influence of Greek schidax “lath” or schindalmos “splinter”) from Latin scandula “roof tile,” from scindere “to cleave, split,” from PIE root *sked- “to split.” Meaning “small signboard” is first attested 1842. Sense of “woman’s short haircut” is from 1924; the verb meaning “to cut the hair so as to give the impression of overlapping shingles” is from 1857. n.2“loose stones on a seashore,” 1510s, probably related to Norwegian singl “small stones,” or North Frisian singel “gravel,” both said to be echoic of the sound of water running over pebbles. v.“cover with shingles” (of houses), 1560s, from shingle (n.). Related: Shingled; shingling. n.

  1. An acute infection caused by a herpesvirus and characterized by inflammation of the sensory ganglia of certain spinal or cranial nerves and the eruption of vesicles along the affected nerve path. It usually strikes only one side of the body and is often accompanied by severe neuralgia.herpes zoster zona zoster

  1. See under herpes.

see hang out one’s shingle.

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