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'''Shingle'''('''s''') may refer to:


==Construction==
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*[[Roof shingle]]s or wall shingles, including:
**[[Wood shingle]]
***[[Shake (shingle)]], a wooden shingle that is split from a bolt, with a more rustic appearance than a sawed shingle
***[[Quercus imbricaria]], or shingle oak, a wood used for shingles
**[[Asbestos shingle]], roof or wall shingles made with asbestos-cement board
**[[Asphalt shingle]], a common residential roofing material in North America
**[[Tile#Roof_tiles|Roof tiles]], made of ceramic or other materials
**[[Slate#Slate in buildings|Slate shingle]], roof or wall shingles made of slate
**[[Solar shingle]], a solar collector designed to look like a roof shingle
*[[Shingle style architecture]], a plain American house style with little ornamentation


==Science and technology==
'''Shingle''' can refer to a covering element as a '''[[roof shingle]]''' or wall shingle, including:
*[[Shingles]] (''Herpes zoster''), a disease of the nerves
*[[Shake (shingle)]], a wooden shingle that is split from a bolt, with a more rustic appearance than a sawed shingle.
*[[Shingling (metallurgy)]], the process of consolidating iron or steel with a hammer during production
*[[Wood shingle]], in modern usage this term is distinguished from a shake by being sawn rather than split out of a bolt (prepared piece) of a log. The worker who saws shingles is called a [[shingle weaver]]. [[Quercus imbricaria|Shingle oak]] derived its name from being used for shingles in the past.
*[[Shingle back]] (''Trachydosaurus rugosus''), a species of skink found in Australia
*[[Asbestos shingle]], roof or wall shingles made with asbestos-cement board.
*[[Shingled magnetic recording]] (SMR), a magnetic storage data recording technology used in hard disk drives
*[[Slate#Slate in buildings|slate shingle]], roof or wall shingles made of slate.
*In text mining, a token-level [[n-gram]]
*[[Asphalt shingle]], the most common residential roofing material in North America.
*[[Solar shingle]], a solar collector designed to look like a roof shingle.

==Places==
*Shingle, former name of [[Shingle Springs, California]].

==Technology==
*[[Shingling (metallurgy)]], the process of consolidating iron or steel with a hammer during production.
*In [[text mining]], a contiguous subsequence of tokens in a document used to gauge syntactic similarity. A set of shingles comprise a [[w-shingling]].

==Culture==
*A small wooden platform, used for [[shingle dancing]].
*[[Shingle style architecture]], a plain American house style with little ornamentation.
*Slang for [[toast]], in diner lingo such as a nickname for [[chipped beef]] on toast.
*[[Shingle bob]], a short hairstyle for women in the mid-1920s.
*"Hanging out a shingle", a common phrase in the legal profession meaning to start one's own [[law firm]]. This phrase is also applied to other businesses or trades.


==Other uses==
==Other uses==
*[[Shingle beach]], especially in Europe, a beach composed of pebbles and cobbles
*[[Herpes zoster]] ("shingles"), a disease of the nerves.
*[[Shingle back]] (''Trachydosaurus rugosus''), a species of skink found in Australia.
*[[Shingle bob]], a short hairstyle for women in the mid-1920s
*[[Shingle Cove]], Antarctica
*[[Shingle beach]], especially in Western Europe, a beach composed of pebbles.
*[[Shingle dancing]], a form of solo dancing akin to tap dancing, of African American origin
*An alluvial material of flat [[slate]] stones with edges rounded by erosion, typically forming a [[shingle beach]].
*[[Shingle Springs, California]], formerly known as Shingle
*"Shit on a shingle", slang for [[chipped beef on toast]]
*The Shingles, a sandbank near the landform called [[The Needles]], on the Isle of Wight


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