shingle

/'ʃiŋgl/

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BNC频率: 15420

现代语料频率: 11117

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中文翻译

n. 墙面板, 小招牌

英文解释

n. building material used as siding or roofing

n. coarse beach gravel of small waterworn stones and pebbles (or a stretch of shore covered with such gravel)

n. a small signboard outside the office of a lawyer or doctor, e.g.

v. cover with shingles

词态变化

过去式:shingled

过去分词:shingled

现在分词:shingling

第三人称单数:shingles

常见例句

A cleaving tool with handle at right angles to the blade, for splitting cask staves and shingles from the block

overlapping or layered as scales or shingles

Lying over each other in regular order, so as to "break joints," like tiles or shingles on a roof, the scales on the leaf buds of plants and the cups of some acorns, or the scales of fishes; overlapping each other at the margins, as leaves in aestivation. a

covering with a design in which one element covers a part of another (as with tiles or shingles)

n covering with a design in which one element covers a part of another (as with tiles or shingles) v lie partly over or alongside of something or of one another v pass the tongue over v move with or cause to move with a whistling or hissing sound v take up with the tongue v wash or flow against