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• Shingle, strandline and sand-dune communities in the British National Vegetation Classification system — This article gives an overview of the shingle, strandline and sand dune communities in the British National Vegetation Classification system.IntroductionThe shingle, strandline and sand dune communities of the NVC were described in Volume 5 of… …   Wikipedia

• Sand — For other uses, see Sand (disambiguation). Close up of sand from the Gobi Desert, Mongolia, showing a surface area of 1 square centimetres …   Wikipedia

• Shingle beach — A shingle beach is a beach which is armoured with pebbles or small to medium sized cobbles. Typically the stone composition may grade from characteristic sizes ranging from two to 200 millimeters in diameter. Whilst this beach landform is most… …   Wikipedia

• shingle — [[t]ʃɪ̱ŋg(ə)l[/t]] shingles 1) N UNCOUNT Shingle is a mass of small rough pieces of stone on the shore of a sea or a river. ...a beach of sand and shingle. 2) N UNCOUNT Shingles is a disease in which painful red spots spread in bands over a… …   English dictionary

• shingle — English has two distinct words shingle. The older, ‘roof tile’ [12], was borrowed from Latin scindula, a variant of scandula ‘roof tile’. This was probably derived from scandere ‘ascend’ (source of English ascend, descend, scan, etc), the… …   The Hutchinson dictionary of word origins

• shingle — English has two distinct words shingle. The older, ‘roof tile’ [12], was borrowed from Latin scindula, a variant of scandula ‘roof tile’. This was probably derived from scandere ‘ascend’ (source of English ascend, descend, scan, etc), the… …   Word origins