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Production vs Shingle - What's the difference?

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As nouns the difference between production and shingle

is that production is the act of producing, making or creating something while shingle is 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 or shingle can be a punitive strap such as a belt, as used for severe spanking or shingle can be small, smooth pebbles, as found on a beach.

As a verb shingle is

to cover with small, thin pieces of building material, with shingles or shingle can be (industry) to hammer and squeeze material in order to expel cinder and impurities from it, as in metallurgy.

production

English

Noun

(en noun)
  • The act of producing, making or creating something.
    • The widget making machine is being used for production now.
  • The act of bringing something forward, out etc. for use or consideration.
  • * 1910 , , "The Lost Sanjak", Reginald in Russia :
    • I tramped to a neighbouring market-town, and, late as the hour was, the production of a few shillings procured me supper and a night's lodging in a cheap coffee-house.
  • the act of being produced
    • The widgets are coming out of production now.
  • the total amount produced
    • They hope to increase spaghetti production next year.
  • the presentation of a theatrical work
    • We went to a production of Hamlet.
  • an occasion or activity made more complicated than necessary
    • He made a simple meal into a huge production .
  • that which is manufactured or is ready for manufacturing in volume (as opposed to a prototype or conceptual model)
    • This is the final production model.
  • The act of lengthening out or prolonging.

    • Derived terms

    * production line

    shingle

    English

    Etymology 1

    From (etyl) scincle, from (etyl) scindula.

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • 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.
  • * Ray
    • I reached St. Asaph, where there is a very poor cathedral church covered with shingles or tiles.
  • A rectangular piece of steel obtained by means of a shingling process involving hammering of puddled steel.
  • 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).

    • See also

    * shake * tile

    Verb

    (shingl)
  • To cover with small, thin pieces of building material, with shingles.
  • To cut, as hair, so that the ends are evenly exposed all over the head, like shingles on a roof.

    • Derived terms

    * shingler * shingly * to hang out one's shingle

    Etymology 2

    From dialectal (etyl)

    Verb

    (shingl)
  • (industry) To hammer and squeeze material in order to expel cinder and impurities from it, as in metallurgy.
  • To lash with a shingle.
    • ''The imp's bottom was shingled black and blue

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • A punitive strap such as a belt, as used for severe spanking
  • (by extension) Any paddle used for corporal punishment

    • Etymology 3

    Probably cognate to the (etyl) , both imitative of the sound of water running over such pebbles.

    Noun

    (-)
  • Small, smooth pebbles, as found on a beach.
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    • References

    * * (CorPun) & [http://www.corpun.com/picpar.htm

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