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1. (n.) shingle
a thin piece of wood, slate, metal, asbestos, or the like, usu. oblong, laid in overlapping rows to cover the roofs and walls of buildings.
2. shingle
a woman's short hairstyle in which the hair is cropped close to the head from below the crown to the nape .
3. shingle
a small signboard, esp . as hung before a doctor's or lawyer's office .
4. (v.t.) shingle
to cover with shingles, as a roof .
5. shingle
to cut (hair) close to the head .
6. (n.) shingle
small, waterworn stones or pebbles lying loose esp . on a beach .
7. shingle
a beach, riverbank, or other area covered with such small pebbles or stones.
8. (v.t.) shingle
to hammer or squeeze (puddled iron) into a bloom or billet, eliminating as much slag as possible .
Etymology: (1665–75; < F cingler to whip, beat < G zängeln, der. of Zange tongs )
Definition of 'shingle'
Princeton's WordNet
1. (noun) shingle, shake
building material used as siding or roofing
2. (noun) shingle
coarse beach gravel of small waterworn stones and pebbles (or a stretch of shore covered with such gravel)
3. (verb) shingle
a small signboard outside the office of a lawyer or doctor, e.g.
4. (verb) shingle
cover with shingles
"shingle a roof"
Definition of 'shingle'
Webster Dictionary
1. (noun) shingle
round, water-worn, and loose gravel and pebbles, or a collection of roundish stones, such as are common on the seashore and elsewhere
2. (noun) shingle
a piece of wood sawed or rived thin and small, with one end thinner than the other, -- used in covering buildings, especially roofs, the thick ends of one row overlapping the thin ends of the row below
3. (noun) shingle
a sign for an office or a shop; as, to hang out one's shingle
4. (verb) shingle
to cover with shingles; as, to shingle a roof
5. (verb) shingle
to cut, as hair, so that the ends are evenly exposed all over the head, as shingles on a roof
6. (verb) shingle
to subject to the process of shindling, as a mass of iron from the pudding furnace
Sense: coarse gravel
There's too much shingle and not enough sand on this beach.
Afrikaans: gruis
Arabic: حَصى ، حَصاة
Bulgarian: чакъл
Brazilian: seixo
Czech: oblázky
German: der Kies
Danish: ral
Greek: βότσαλο
Spanish: guijarro
Estonian: kivi-klibu
Farsi: تخته چوبي با سيماني
Finnish: pikkukivet
French: (gros) cailloux
Hebrew: שֶׁטָח אָבַנִים קְטָנות ב
Hindi: कंकड़
Croatian: oblutak,šljunak
Hungarian: nagyszemű kavics
Indonesian: kerikil
Icelandic: fjörumöl
Italian: ghiaia, ciottoli
Japanese: 小石
Korean: 조약돌, 자갈
Lithuanian: aštrūs akmenukai
Latvian: oļi; rupja grants
Malay: batu kerikil
Dutch: kiezel
Norwegian: grus, singel
Polish: ostryżwir
Persian: تخته چوبي با سيماني
Pashto: دړه، تخته، تراشه چې په با
Portuguese: seixo
Romanian: pietriş
Russian: галька
Slovak: okruhliak, ploský kameň
Slovenian: prod
Serbian: šindra
Swedish: [klapper]sten
Thai: กรวดตามชายหาดหรือฝั่งแม่น
Turkish: çakıl taşı
Taiwanese: (海邊的) 砂礫,圓卵石
Ukrainian: галька, голяк
Urdu: ساحل کے گھسے پتھر، سنگریز
Vietnamese: đá cuội
Chinese: (布满海边的)小圆石
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