What's the difference between beach and shingle?

Beach


Definition:

  • (n.) Pebbles, collectively; shingle.
  • (n.) The shore of the sea, or of a lake, which is washed by the waves; especially, a sandy or pebbly shore; the strand.
  • (v. t.) To run or drive (as a vessel or a boat) upon a beach; to strand; as, to beach a ship.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) It’s great to observe the beach from that perspective.
  • (2) They had watched him celebrate mass with three million pilgrims on the packed-out shores of Copacabana beach .
  • (3) Proceptive behavior, according to Beach (1976), maintains and accelerates sexual interactions toward the end goal.
  • (4) When I told my friend Rob that I was coming to visit him in Rio, I suggested we try something a bit different to going to the beach every day and drinking caipirinhas until three in the morning.
  • (5) A guide, £44pp, is compulsory ( rscn.org.jo ) 2 Discover the Nuweiba coast: Red Sea, Egypt Beach, Nuweiba, Sinai, Egypt.
  • (6) Nango's dwellings are built on skis so can be pulled around the beach, and have a glass roof to view the northern lights.
  • (7) Similar organisms were found in the water at the site of the accident in Boston, and at ocean bathing beaches on nearby Martha's Vineyard.
  • (8) Everything on Tonight's the Night was recorded and mixed before On the Beach was started, but it was never finished or put into its complete order till later.
  • (9) Ten years ago I felt I could understand why people gathered at Cronulla beach to protest on the day of the riots.
  • (10) The disappointing weather at Easter left beaches deserted but some Britons, who were determined to enjoy the outdoors this time round, have already had their plans thwarted by the weather, taking to websites such as ukcampsite.co.uk to swap tales of woe, such as farmers calling to cancel bookings because sites were waterlogged.
  • (11) • +33 2 98 50 10 12, hotel-les-sables-blancs.com , doubles from €105 room only Hôtel Ty Mad, Douarnenez Hôtel Ty Mad In the 1920s the little beach and fishing village of Douarnenez was a favourite haunt of the likes of Pablo Picasso and writer and artist Max Jacob.
  • (12) It sells itself to British tourists as a holiday heaven of golden beaches, flamenco dresses and well-stocked sherry bars, but southern Andalucía – home to the Costa del Sol – has now become the focus of worries about the euro.
  • (13) If people say this, they don’t know the geography [of the city].” Facebook Twitter Pinterest Rio has spent R7.1bn (£1.7bn) on its Olympic stadia, including this beach volleyball venue on Copacabana beach.
  • (14) Where to stay: Beachside bungalows at Coco Grove Beach Resort cost £19 per person.
  • (15) Photograph: Kevin Rushby Moving on, I pull in at Muizenberg as the bad weather starts to clear and the wide beach fills with people.
  • (16) The coke sailed up my nasal passage, leaving behind the delicious smell of a hot leather car seat on the way back from the beach.
  • (17) Jeffrey Epstein in custody in West Palm Beach, Florida, in 2008.
  • (18) Climbing Table Mountain and hitting the nightlife are on the agenda too, as well as surfing Cape Town’s more challenging spots, from Long Beach to Kommetjie.
  • (19) The beach curved around us and the sun shone while the rest of the UK shivered under grey skies and sleet.
  • (20) Both are alleged to have plied the Devon girl with drugs, raped her and left her unconscious to drown on Anjuna beach, metres from a bar in which the group had spent the evening drinking.

Shingle


Definition:

  • (n.) Round, water-worn, and loose gravel and pebbles, or a collection of roundish stones, such as are common on the seashore and elsewhere.
  • (n.) 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.
  • (n.) A sign for an office or a shop; as, to hang out one's shingle.
  • (v. t.) To cover with shingles; as, to shingle a roof.
  • (v. t.) To cut, as hair, so that the ends are evenly exposed all over the head, as shingles on a roof.
  • (v. t.) To subject to the process of shindling, as a mass of iron from the pudding furnace.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Along with asthenia, polyadenopathies, and shingles, it is often an early sign of AIDS.
  • (2) This outbreak suggests that shingles can be provoked by reexposure to varicella-zoster virus.
  • (3) A double-blind, placebo-controlled trial of amantadine hydrochloride (Symmetrel) in acute herpes zoster (shingles) was carried out in 100 patients in general practice.
  • (4) Somatic sensory perception thresholds (warm, cold, hot pain, touch, pinprick, vibration, two-point discrimination), allodynia and skin temperature were assessed in the affected area of 42 patients with unilateral postherpetic neuralgia (PHN) and 20 patients who had had unilateral shingles not followed by PHN (NoPHN), and in the mirror-image area on the other side.
  • (5) Acyclovir has demonstrated clinical efficacy for chickenpox, shingles (herpes zoster), genital herpes, and other herpes simplex infections.
  • (6) Unusual presentations of HIV infected persons which have been seen in Africa include serially developing abscesses in pyomyositis, gall bladder diseases, pericarditis or myocarditis, diseases of the Central Nervous System (cryptococcal meningitis, toxoplasmosis, non-specific leuko-encephalitis, atraumatic paraplegia, acute psychosis or chronic deterioration in mental capacity, lymphoma of the brain), prodromal illnesses, swollen lymph nodes, herpes zoster or shingles in young adults, or tumours of the lymphatic system.
  • (7) Sacral shingles is associated with sensory loss and flaccid detrusor paralysis.
  • (8) Patients over 50 with simple shingles should be offered topical idoxuridine or intravenous acyclovir to reduce the risk of post-herpetic neuralgia.
  • (9) The varicella-zoster virus causes chickenpox and shingles.
  • (10) Vesicles then appear on the skin in the distribution of this nerve, producing the characteristic dermatomal rash of shingles.
  • (11) Specimens from patients with smallpox, various forms of vaccination complications, varicella, zoster (shingles), and herpes simplex are included in this evaluation.
  • (12) By comparison, gypsum pellet carriers sustained penetration rates of 37% in shingle-stacked piles and 87% in random-stacked piles.
  • (13) At Cley, in North Norfolk, a new nature reserve just purchased by the Norfolk Wildlife Trust was flooded, a bird hide had disappeared and holes punched in the shingle sea bank threaten the whole of the marshes.
  • (14) They say there is particular concern in the Hunstanton area, where some of the shingle bank has been swept away, and there are reports that Mundesley Cliff Vale Road car park has been washed into the sea.
  • (15) Four polymorphic loci were studied on an extensive shingle beach at Dungeness.
  • (16) Herpes zoster or shingles is caused by the DNA virus, varicella-zoster virus, and its major morbidity in older patients is postherpetic neuralgia.
  • (17) The government would also extend free vaccinations for the shingles virus to older Australians aged 70 to 79 on the national immunisation program, she said.
  • (18) The other causes of facial paralysis in children are very much less common: a frigore or viral, traumatic, occur ring in the course of acute poliomyelitis, shingles or tumours of the middle ear.
  • (19) Using the polymerase chain reaction, we performed postmortem examinations of trigeminal and thoracic ganglia of 23 subjects 33 to 88 years old who had not recently had chickenpox or shingles to identify the presence of latent varicella-zoster viral DNA.
  • (20) Herpes zoster (shingles) is a viral infection that results from a reactivation of a dormant varicella zoster virus.