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How to pronounce “shingle”

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Pronunciation guide for shingle

Learning goal: Practice the English pronunciation of shingle with real speech in context.
Available examples: 8 YouTube examples
Real speech example: What Women Athletes Need to Unlock Their Full PotentialIt's not good enough to just hang a shingle,
Definition summary: 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.

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What Women Athletes Need to Unlock Their Full Potential

It's not good enough to just hang a shingle,

[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.
A rectangular piece of steel obtained by means of a shingling process involving hammering of puddled steel.
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).
(computational linguistics) A word-based n-gram.
[Verb]
(transitive) To cover with small, thin pieces of building material, with shingles.
(transitive) To cut, as hair, so that the ends are evenly exposed all over the head, like shingles on a roof.
(transitive) To increase the storage density of (a hard disk) by writing tracks that partially overlap.