shingle

«shingle» in Mova's school dictionary: Small round stones on a beach, larger than sand — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 1 sentence of Mova's corpora that use it.

part of speech

noun (shingle — beach stones, uncountable; a shingle, shingles — roof tile); noun (shingles — illness, uncountable)

meaning for a pupil

1) Small round stones on a beach, larger than sand. tree →

2) A thin flat piece of wood or other material laid in overlapping rows on roofs or walls. tree →

3) (US) A small sign outside a doctor's or lawyer's office: "hang out your shingle" means start your own business. tree →

4) "Shingles" (always plural form) is an illness causing a painful rash, caused by the same virus as chickenpox. tree →

sense in the lessons

In geography lessons, shingle beaches like Chesil Beach in England are made of pebbles; waves shape them. In building, wooden or slate shingles cover roofs in North America and elsewhere. In health, shingles is a painful illness older people can get. Phrases: shingle beach, roof shingles, a bank of shingle, hang out a shingle.

examples

• The shingle beach crunched under our feet. tree →
• Waves rolled the shingle up and down the shore. tree →
• Some shingles blew off the roof in the storm. tree →
• The cabin has a wooden shingle roof. tree →
• Grandpa had shingles and needed rest. tree →
• Brighton has a shingle beach, not a sandy one. tree →

note

Beach shingle is uncountable ("lots of shingle"). Roof shingles are countable. The illness "shingles" takes a singular verb: "Shingles is painful." Shingles is not the same as chickenpox, though the same virus causes both.

In the corpora

• A spit is a long finger of sand or shingle stretching out from the coast into the sea.

Trees and pragmatics

Every meaning and example of «shingle» parsed by Mova, each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.