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"ref": "2016, Colson Whitehead, The Underground Railroad, Fleet (2017), page 311",
"text": "He [...] hung a shingle as a barber.",
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"ref": "2022, Peter S. Canellos, interviewed by Ronald Collins in eGreater than Holmes? The life and legacy of John Marshall Harlan, SCOTUSblog, April 13 2022",
"text": "When [these attorneys] were born, in the early decades of the 19th century, being a lawyer meant putting out a shingle and representing your neighbors."
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"ref": "1997 September 1, Andrei Z. Broder, Steven C. Glassman, Mark S. Manasse, Geoffrey Zweig, “Syntactic clustering of the Web”, in Computer Networks and ISDN Systems (Papers from the Sixth International World Wide Web Conference), volume 29, number 8, →DOI, →ISSN, pages 1157–1166",
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"_dis1": "89 8 3",
"code": "sq",
"lang": "Albanian",
"sense": "to cover with shingles (building material)",
"word": "mbuloj me dhoga"
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"sense": "to cover with shingles (building material)",
"word": "barder"
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"sense": "to cover with shingles (building material)",
"word": "mit Schindeln decken"
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{
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"code": "hu",
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"sense": "to cover with shingles (building material)",
"word": "zsindelyez"
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{
"_dis1": "89 8 3",
"code": "hu",
"lang": "Hungarian",
"sense": "to cover with shingles (building material)",
"word": "zsindellyel fed"
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"code": "it",
"lang": "Italian",
"sense": "to cover with shingles (building material)",
"word": "ricoprire con tegole"
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"sense": "to cover with shingles (building material)",
"word": "telhar"
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"_dis1": "89 8 3",
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"sense": "to cover with shingles (building material)",
"word": "entelhar"
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"sense": "to cover with shingles (building material)",
"word": "șindrili"
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"word": "techar"
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{
"args": {
"1": "~"
},
"expansion": "shingle (countable and uncountable, plural shingles)",
"name": "en-noun"
}
],
"lang": "English",
"lang_code": "en",
"pos": "noun",
"senses": [
{
"categories": [
"English terms with quotations",
"Quotation templates to be cleaned"
],
"examples": [
{
"ref": "1867, Matthew Arnold, Dover Beach",
"text": "And naked shingles of the world.",
"type": "quotation"
},
{
"ref": "2014 August 24, Jeff Howell, “Home improvements: gravel paths and cutting heating bills [print version: Cold comfort in technology, 23 August 2014, p. P5]”, in The Daily Telegraph (Property)",
"text": "You need to excavate and remove the topsoil, line the subsoil with a geotextile, then lay and compact hardcore. Follow this with a layer of compacted \"hoggin\" – compacted clay, gravel and sand. This is then sprayed with hot bitumen, and has a layer of pea shingle rolled into it.",
"type": "quotation"
},
{
"ref": "2022 November 2, Paul Bigland, “New trains, old trains, and splendid scenery”, in RAIL, number 969, page 57",
"text": "One can't escape the huge nuclear facility at Sellafield (supplier of much of the line's remaining freight traffic), or miss the wild shingle beaches with exposed and precarious bungalows sandwiched between the railway and the shore at Braystones.",
"type": "quotation"
}
],
"glosses": [
"Small, smooth pebbles, as found on a beach."
],
"links": [
[
"pebble",
"pebble"
],
[
"beach",
"beach"
]
],
"tags": [
"countable",
"uncountable"
]
}
],
"sounds": [
{
"ipa": "/ˈʃɪŋ.ɡəl/",
"tags": [
"UK",
"US"
]
},
{
"rhymes": "-ɪŋɡəl"
},
{
"audio": "LL-Q1860 (eng)-Vealhurl-shingle.wav",
"mp3_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/transcoded/a/a9/LL-Q1860_%28eng%29-Vealhurl-shingle.wav/LL-Q1860_%28eng%29-Vealhurl-shingle.wav.mp3",
"ogg_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/transcoded/a/a9/LL-Q1860_%28eng%29-Vealhurl-shingle.wav/LL-Q1860_%28eng%29-Vealhurl-shingle.wav.ogg",
"tags": [
"Southern-England"
],
"text": "Audio (Southern England)"
}
],
"translations": [
{
"code": "sq",
"lang": "Albanian",
"sense": "small, smooth pebbles",
"word": "guralecë"
},
{
"code": "cs",
"lang": "Czech",
"sense": "small, smooth pebbles",
"tags": [
"masculine",
"plural"
],
"word": "oblázky"
},
{
"code": "nl",
"lang": "Dutch",
"sense": "small, smooth pebbles",
"tags": [
"neuter"
],
"word": "grind"
},
{
"code": "fi",
"lang": "Finnish",
"sense": "small, smooth pebbles",
"tags": [
"plural"
],
"word": "pikkukivet"
},
{
"code": "fr",
"lang": "French",
"sense": "small, smooth pebbles",
"tags": [
"masculine",
"plural"
],
"word": "galets"
},
{
"code": "it",
"lang": "Italian",
"sense": "small, smooth pebbles",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "ciottolo"
},
{
"code": "ru",
"lang": "Russian",
"roman": "gálʹka",
"sense": "small, smooth pebbles",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "га́лька"
},
{
"code": "gd",
"lang": "Scottish Gaelic",
"sense": "small, smooth pebbles",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "mol"
},
{
"code": "es",
"lang": "Spanish",
"sense": "small, smooth pebbles",
"word": "guijarro"
}
],
"word": "shingle"
}
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