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Shingle logo #10101) Building material 2) Coarse gravel 3) Cover with shingles 4) Roofing tile 5) Shake 6) Toast, to a GI
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Shingle logo #10101) Gravel 2) Materials 3) Shake 4) Sign
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  1. building material used as siding or roofing
  2. coarse beach gravel of small water-worn stones and pebbles (or a stretch of shore covered with such gravel)
  3. a small signboard outside the office of a lawyer or doctor, e.g.

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Shingle logo #21000 Shingle can refer to a covering element as a roof shingle or wall shingle, including: ==British English== In British English shingle can refer to a mass of small rounded pebbles, especially on a shingle beach. ==Places== ==Technology== ==Culture== ==Other uses== ...
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Shingle logo #21002• (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 the head, as shingles on a roof. • (v. t.) To ...
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shingle logo #21003(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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shingle logo #21003thin 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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Shingle logo #20935a 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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shingle logo #209731. <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. Singl, singling, coarse gravel, small round stone...
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Shingle logo #22195A unit composed of wood, cement, asphalt compound, slate, tile or the like, employed in an overlapping series to cover roofs and walls.
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Shingle logo #22196A unit composed of wood, cement, asphalt compound, slate, tile or the like, employed in an overlapping series to cover roofs and walls.
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Shingle logo #20972Shin'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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Shingle logo #20972Shin'gle transitive verb [ imperfect &. past participle Shingled ; present participle & verbal noun Shingling .] 1. To cover with shingles; as, to shingle a roof. « They shingle their houses with it.» ...
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Shingle logo #20909Shingle: 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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Shingle logo #21217In 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 found on some old church roofs, and on many timber spi...
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Shingle logo #22171(1) a small unit of prepared roofing material designed for installation with similar units in overlapping rows on inclines normally exceeding 25 percent; (2) to cover with shingles; (3) to apply any sheet material in overlapping rows like shingles.
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Shingle logo #21078A machine sawn wood, usually cedar, roofing and siding product. See 'Shake.'
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shingle logo #20400[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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Shingle logo #20127A 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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Shingle logo #20490Operational code name for the Allied landings at Anzio - January 1944
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shingle logo #20689Any 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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shingle logo #20974shake noun building material used as siding or roofing
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