Shingle vs. Gravel
Shinglenoun
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.
Gravelnoun
(uncountable) Small fragments of rock, used for laying on the beds of roads and railways, and as ballast.
Shinglenoun
A rectangular piece of steel obtained by means of a shingling process involving hammering of puddled steel.
Gravelnoun
A type or grade of small rocks, differentiated by mineral type, size range, or other characteristics.
Shinglenoun
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).
Gravelnoun
A particle from 2 to 64 mm in diameter, following the Wentworth scale
Shinglenoun
A punitive strap such as a belt.
Gravelnoun
Kidney stones; a deposit of small calculous concretions in the kidneys and the urinary or gall bladder; also, the disease of which they are a symptom.
Shinglenoun
(by extension) Any paddle used for corporal punishment.
Gravelverb
(transitive) To apply a layer of gravel to the surface of a road, etc.
Shinglenoun
Small, smooth pebbles, as found on a beach.
Gravelverb
To puzzle or annoy
Shingleverb
(transitive) To cover with small, thin pieces of building material, with shingles.
Gravelverb
To run (as a ship) upon the gravel or beach; to run aground; to cause to stick fast in gravel or sand.
Shingleverb
(transitive) To cut, as hair, so that the ends are evenly exposed all over the head, like shingles on a roof.
Gravelverb
To check or stop; to embarrass; to perplex.
Shingleverb
To hammer and squeeze material in order to expel cinder and impurities from it, as in metallurgy.
Gravelverb
To hurt or lame (a horse) by gravel lodged between the shoe and foot.
Shingleverb
(transitive) To beat with a shingle.
Gravelnoun
Small stones, or fragments of stone; very small pebbles, often intermixed with particles of sand.
Shinglenoun
Round, water-worn, and loose gravel and pebbles, or a collection of roundish stones, such as are common on the seashore and elsewhere.
Gravelnoun
A deposit of small calculous concretions in the kidneys and the urinary or gall bladder; also, the disease of which they are a symptom.
Shinglenoun
A piece of wood sawed or rived thin and small, with one end thinner than the other, - used in covering buildings, especially roofs, the thick ends of one row overlapping the thin ends of the row below.
‘I reached St. Asaph, . . . where there is a very poor cathedral church covered with shingles or tiles.’;
Gravelverb
To cover with gravel; as, to gravel a walk.
Shinglenoun
A sign for an office or a shop; as, to hang out one's shingle.
Gravelverb
To run (as a ship) upon the gravel or beach; to run aground; to cause to stick fast in gravel or sand.
‘When we were fallen into a place between two seas, they graveled the ship.’; ‘Willam the Conqueror . . . chanced as his arrival to be graveled; and one of his feet stuck so fast in the sand that he fell to the ground.’;
Shingleverb
To cover with shingles; as, to shingle a roof.
‘They shingle their houses with it.’;
Gravelverb
To check or stop; to embarrass; to perplex.
‘When you were graveled for lack of matter.’; ‘The physician was so graveled and amazed withal, that he had not a word more to say.’;
Shingleverb
To cut, as hair, so that the ends are evenly exposed all over the head, as shingles on a roof.
Gravelverb
To hurt or lame (a horse) by gravel lodged between the shoe and foot.
Shingleverb
To subject to the process of shindling, as a mass of iron from the pudding furnace.
Gravelnoun
rock fragments and pebbles
Shinglenoun
building material used as siding or roofing
Gravelverb
cause annoyance in; disturb, especially by minor irritations;
‘Mosquitoes buzzing in my ear really bothers me’; ‘It irritates me that she never closes the door after she leaves’;
Shinglenoun
coarse beach gravel of small water-worn stones and pebbles (or a stretch of shore covered with such gravel)
Gravelverb
cover with gravel;
‘We gravelled the driveway’;
Shinglenoun
a small signboard outside the office of a lawyer or doctor, e.g.
Gravelverb
be a mystery or bewildering to;
‘This beats me!’; ‘Got me--I don't know the answer!’; ‘a vexing problem’; ‘This question really stuck me’;
Shingleverb
cover with shingles;
‘shingle a roof’;
Graveladjective
unpleasantly harsh or grating in sound;
‘a gravelly voice’;
Gravel
Gravel is a loose aggregation of rock fragments. Gravel is classified by particle size range and includes size classes from granule- to boulder-sized fragments.
