SHINGLE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does shingle mean? 

• SHINGLE (noun)
  The noun SHINGLE has 3 senses:

1. building material used as siding or roofing

2. coarse beach gravel of small waterworn 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.

  Familiarity information: SHINGLE used as a noun is uncommon.

• SHINGLE (verb)
  The verb SHINGLE has 1 sense:

1. cover with shingles

  Familiarity information: SHINGLE used as a verb is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• SHINGLE (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Building material used as siding or roofing

Classified under:

Nouns denoting substances

Synonyms:

shake; shingle

Hypernyms ("shingle" is a kind of...):

building material (material used for constructing buildings)

Derivation:

shingle (cover with shingles)

Sense 2

Meaning:

Coarse beach gravel of small waterworn stones and pebbles (or a stretch of shore covered with such gravel)

Classified under:

Nouns denoting substances

Hypernyms ("shingle" is a kind of...):

crushed rock; gravel (rock fragments and pebbles)

Derivation:

shingly (abounding in small stones)

Sense 3

Meaning:

A small signboard outside the office of a lawyer or doctor, e.g.

Classified under:

Nouns denoting man-made objects

Hypernyms ("shingle" is a kind of...):

sign; signboard (structure displaying a board on which advertisements can be posted)

• SHINGLE (verb)

Present simple: I / you / we / they shingle    ... he / she / it shingles   
Past simple: shingled   
Past participle: shingled   
-ing form: shingling   

Sense 1

Meaning:

Cover with shingles

Classified under:

Verbs of touching, hitting, tying, digging

Context example:

shingle a roof

Hypernyms (to "shingle" is one way to...):

roof (provide a building with a roof; cover a building with a roof)

Sentence frame:

Somebody ----s something

Derivation:

shingle (building material used as siding or roofing)

shingler (a worker who shingles roofs)

shingling (the laying on of shingles)

 Context examples 

The boat’s stern touched the hard shingle.

(The Sea-Wolf, by Jack London)

A substance that is being studied in the treatment of infections caused by herpesvirus, including herpes-zoster (shingles).

(Brivudine, NCI Dictionary)

It is the causative agent of chickenpox and shingles.

(Human Herpesvirus 3, NCI Thesaurus)

You probably will not get chickenpox again, but the virus can cause shingles in adults.

(Chickenpox, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention)

Everybody was out of town, and I yearned for the glades of the New Forest or the shingle of Southsea.

(The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)