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Shingle

A thin oblong piece of material, such as wood or slate, that is laid in overlapping rows to cover the roof or sides of a house or other building.
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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.
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Shingle

(Informal) A small signboard, as one indicating a professional office
After passing the bar exam, she hung out her shingle.
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Gravel

An unconsolidated mixture of rock fragments or pebbles.
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Shingle

A woman's close-cropped haircut.
May 23, 2022
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Gravel

(Medicine) The sandlike granular material of urinary calculi.
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Shingle

Beach gravel consisting of large smooth pebbles.
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Gravel

To apply a surface of rock fragments or pebbles to.
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Shingle

A stretch of shore or beach covered with such gravel.
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Gravel

To confuse; perplex.
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Shingle

To cover (a roof or building) with shingles.
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Gravel

(Informal) To irritate.
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Shingle

To cut (hair) short and close to the head.
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Gravel

(uncountable) Small fragments of rock, used for laying on the beds of roads and railways, and as ballast.
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Shingle

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.
May 23, 2022

Gravel

A type or grade of small rocks, differentiated by mineral type, size range, or other characteristics.
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Shingle

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

A particle from 2 to 64 mm in diameter, following the Wentworth scale.
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Shingle

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).
May 23, 2022

Gravel

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.
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Shingle

A punitive strap such as a belt.
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Gravel

A lameness in the foot of a horse, usually caused by an abscess.
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Shingle

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

(rare) Inability to see at night; night blindness.
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Shingle

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

Gravel cycling, a discipline in cycling different from road cycling, mountain biking or cyclocross, for a large part on gravel roads, typically with a dedicated gravel bike
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Shingle

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

(transitive) To apply a layer of gravel to the surface of a road, etc.
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Shingle

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

To puzzle or annoy.
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Shingle

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

To run (as a ship) upon the gravel or beach; to run aground; to cause to stick fast in gravel or sand.
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Shingle

To hammer and squeeze material in order to expel cinder and impurities from it, as in metallurgy.
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Gravel

To check or stop; to confound; to perplex.
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Shingle

(transitive) To beat with a shingle.
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Gravel

To hurt or lame (a horse) by gravel lodged between the shoe and foot.
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Shingle

Round, water-worn, and loose gravel and pebbles, or a collection of roundish stones, such as are common on the seashore and elsewhere.
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Gravel

Small stones, or fragments of stone; very small pebbles, often intermixed with particles of sand.
May 23, 2022

Shingle

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.
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Gravel

A deposit of small calculous concretions in the kidneys and the urinary or gall bladder; also, the disease of which they are a symptom.
May 23, 2022

Shingle

A sign for an office or a shop; as, to hang out one's shingle.
May 23, 2022

Gravel

To cover with gravel; as, to gravel a walk.
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Shingle

To cover with shingles; as, to shingle a roof.
They shingle their houses with it.
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Gravel

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.
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Shingle

To cut, as hair, so that the ends are evenly exposed all over the head, as shingles on a roof.
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Gravel

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.
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Shingle

To subject to the process of shindling, as a mass of iron from the pudding furnace.
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Gravel

To hurt or lame (a horse) by gravel lodged between the shoe and foot.
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Shingle

Building material used as siding or roofing
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Gravel

Rock fragments and pebbles
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Shingle

Coarse beach gravel of small water-worn stones and pebbles (or a stretch of shore covered with such gravel)
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Gravel

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
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Shingle

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

Cover with gravel;
We gravelled the driveway
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Shingle

Cover with shingles;
Shingle a roof
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Gravel

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
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Gravel

Unpleasantly harsh or grating in sound;
A gravelly voice
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