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 Definitions of shingle  [ˈʃɪŋ gəl]  

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Definition of 'shingle' Random House Webster's College Dictionary 

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 Zangetongs)

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


Translation of 'shingle' Kernerman English Multilingual Dictionary 

Sense: coarse gravel
There's too much shingle and not enough sand on this beach.

Afrikaans flag Afrikaans: gruis Arabic flag Arabic: حَصى ، حَصاة Bulgarian flag Bulgarian: чакъл
Brazilian flag Brazilian: seixo Czech flag Czech: oblázky German flag German: der Kies
Danish flag Danish: ral Greek flag Greek: βότσαλο Spanish flag Spanish: guijarro
Estonian flag Estonian: kivi-klibu Farsi flag Farsi: تخته چوبي با سيماني Finnish flag Finnish: pikkukivet
French flag French: (gros) cailloux Hebrew flag Hebrew: שֶׁטָח אָבַנִים קְטָנות ב Hindi flag Hindi: कंकड़
Croatian flag Croatian: oblutak,šljunak Hungarian flag Hungarian: nagyszemű kavics Indonesian flag Indonesian: kerikil
Icelandic flag Icelandic: fjörumöl Italian flag Italian: ghiaia, ciottoli Japanese flag Japanese: 小石
Korean flag Korean: 조약돌, 자갈 Lithuanian flag Lithuanian: aštrūs akmenukai Latvian flag Latvian: oļi; rupja grants
Malay flag Malay: batu kerikil Dutch flag Dutch: kiezel Norwegian flag Norwegian: grus, singel
Polish flag Polish: ostryżwir Persian flag Persian: تخته چوبي با سيماني Pashto flag Pashto: دړه، تخته، تراشه چې په با
Portuguese flag Portuguese: seixo Romanian flag Romanian: pietriş Russian flag Russian: галька
Slovak flag Slovak: okruhliak, ploský kameň Slovenian flag Slovenian: prod Serbian flag Serbian: šindra
Swedish flag Swedish: [klapper]sten Thai flag Thai: กรวดตามชายหาดหรือฝั่งแม่น Turkish flag Turkish: çakıl taşı
Taiwanese flag Taiwanese: (海邊的) 砂礫,圓卵石 Ukrainian flag Ukrainian: галька, голяк Urdu flag Urdu: ساحل کے گھسے پتھر، سنگریز
Vietnamese flag Vietnamese: đá cuội Chinese flag Chinese: (布满海边的)小圆石

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