Word Helper: An Associative Language Search Engine

Synonyms

  1. shake

Words Described by "Shingle"

  1. roof
  2. beach
  3. roofs
  4. mill
  5. beaches
  6. bank
  7. mills
  8. nails
  9. banks
  10. style

Commonly Paired Adjectives

  1. loose
  2. coarse
  3. own
  4. new
  5. fine
  6. wooden
  7. white
  8. rough
  9. story
  10. small

What Google Knows

A shingle beach, also known as either a cobble beach or gravel beach, is a commonly narrow beach that is composed of coarse, loose, well-rounded, and waterworn gravel, called shingle.

Related Definition

  1. shingle:

    n A small, thin piece of building material, often with one end thicker than the other, for laying in overlapping rows as a covering for the roof or sides of a building.

    n A rectangular piece of steel obtained by means of a shingling process involving hammering of puddled steel.

    n A small signboard designating a professional office; this may be both a physical signboard or a metaphoric term for a small production company (a production shingle).

    n (computational linguistics) A word-based n-gram.

    v (transitive) To cover with small, thin pieces of building material, with shingles.

    v (transitive) To cut, as hair, so that the ends are evenly exposed all over the head, like shingles on a roof.

    v (transitive) To increase the storage density of (a hard disk) by writing tracks that partially overlap.

    v (transitive, manufacturing) To hammer and squeeze material in order to expel cinder and impurities from it, as in metallurgy.

    v (transitive) To beat with a shingle.

    n A punitive strap such as a belt.

    n (by extension) Any paddle used for corporal punishment.

    n Small, smooth pebbles, as found on a beach.


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