Shingle
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Shingle can refer to:
- A flat covering element for a roof, including
- Shingle beach, especially in Western Europe, a beach composed of small pebbles
- Shingling (metallurgy) was a stage in the production, when iron or steel was consolidated with a hammer.
- A small wooden platform, used for shingle dancing
- Paddle (spanking), a wooden spanking implement resembling a roofing shingle
- An alluvial material of flat slate stones with edges rounded by erosion, typically forming a beach at the seashore
- Herpes zoster ("shingles"), a disease of the nerves
- Shingle back (Trachydosaurus rugosus), a species of skink found in Australia.
- Commercial signage, as in "to hang out one's shingle".
- shingle bob, a short hairstyle for women in the mid 1920s
- In text mining, a contiguous subsequence of tokens in a document used to gauge syntactic similarity. A set of shingles comprise a w-shingling.
