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1. Shingle
   In architecture, a shingle is a wooden tile, used for covering roofs, spires, etc, made of cleft oak. Shingles were formerly very extensively employed in some districts, but by 1850 their use had, for the most part, been superseded by more durable kinds of covering, They are however still to be foun...
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2. Shingle
   A loose term for coarse beach material, a mixture of GRAVEL, pebbles and larger material, often well-rounded and of hard rock, e.g. chert, flint etc.
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3. shingle
   [n] - building material used as siding or roofing 2. [n] - coarse beach gravel of small water-worn stones and pebbles (or a stretch of shore covered with such gravel) 3. [n] - a small signboard outside the office of a lawyer or doctor, e.g. 4. [v] - cover with shingles
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4. Shingle
   Operational code name for the Allied landings at Anzio - January 1944
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5. shingle
   Any rock fragments (small stones or pebbles) bigger than 2mm in diameter are classified as shingle. Unlike sand, shingle is not moved by the wind but by waves.
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6. Shingle
   Shingle: In medicine, a small signboard outside the office of a doctor. The term has nothing to do with the disease shingles.
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7. shingle
   small rounded waterworn stone DU BUREAU HYDROGRAPHIQUE INTERNATIONAL DE MONACO,1951 Category: General
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8. Shingle
   a wooden tile which has been used for roofing for several thousand years. Used in exactly the same way as clay/concrete tiles, traditionally in Britain they were oak, now mostly Canadian cedar. Soft woods have been used, and continue to be used in parts of the world, where they are usually c...
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9. Shingle
   Shin'gle noun [ Prob. from Norw. singl , singling , coarse gravel, small round stones.] (Geol.) Round, water-worn, and loose gravel and pebbles, or a collection of roundish stones, such as are common on the seashore and elsewhere.
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10. Shingle
    Shin'gle noun [ Middle English shingle , shindle , from Latin scindula , scandula ; confer scindere to cleave, to split, English shed , v.t., Greek ........., ........., shingle, ......... to slit.] 1. ...
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11. Shingle
    Shin'gle transitive verb [ imperfect &. past participle Shingled ; present participle & verbal noun Shingling .] 1. To cover with shingles; as, to shingle a roof. « T...
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12. Shingle
    Shin'gle transitive verb To subject to the process of shindling, as a mass of iron from the pudding furnace.
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13. shingle
    1. <geology> Round, water-worn, and loose gravel and pebbles, or a collection of roundish stones, such as are common on the seashore and elsewhere. ... 2. <botany> Shingle oak, a kind of oak (Quercus imbricaria) used in the Western States for making shingles. ... Origin: Prob. From Norw....
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14. shingle
    shake noun building material used as siding or roofing
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15. Shingle
    • (n.) Round, water-worn, and loose gravel and pebbles, or a collection of roundish stones, such as are common on the seashore and elsewhere. • (n.) A sign for an office or a shop; as, to hang out one`s shingle. • (v. t.) To cut, as hair, so that the ends are evenly exposed all over t...
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16. shingle
    (from the article `ocean`) ...tide levels. It then acts as a stabilizing factor. Storm waves may drive forward coral fragments derived from `stag-horn` corals growing on the ... Imbricate bedding is a shingle structure in a deposit of flattened or disk-shaped pebbles or cobbles (Figure 3). That is to say, elongated and ... ...
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17. shingle
    thin piece of building material, usually with a butt end thicker than the other. Shingles are widely used as roof covering on residential buildings ... [1 related articles]
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18. Shingle
    A machine sawn wood, usually cedar, roofing and siding product. See 'Shake.'
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19. shingle
    
    • building material used as siding or roofing
    • coarse beach gravel of small water-worn stones and pebbles (or a stretch of shore covered with such gravel)
    • a small signboard outside the office of a lawyer or doctor, e.g.
    
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