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# 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 →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/shingle/#m1)

2) A thin flat piece of wood or other material laid in overlapping rows on roofs or walls. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/shingle/#m2)

3) (US) A small sign outside a doctor's or lawyer's office: "hang out your shingle" means start your own business. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/shingle/#m3)

4) "Shingles" (always plural form) is an illness causing a painful rash, caused by the same virus as chickenpox. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/shingle/#m4)

### 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 →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/shingle/#x1)
- Waves rolled the shingle up and down the shore. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/shingle/#x2)
- Some shingles blew off the roof in the storm. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/shingle/#x3)
- The cabin has a wooden shingle roof. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/shingle/#x4)
- Grandpa had shingles and needed rest. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/shingle/#x5)
- Brighton has a shingle beach, not a sandy one. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/shingle/#x6)

### 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.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/geography/55-coasts-and-caves/11/)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «shingle» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/shingle/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.