Shingle

Shingle may refer to:

In construction:

• Roof shingles 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
• Roof tiles, made of ceramic or other materials
• 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

In science and technology:

• Herpes zoster ("shingles"), a disease of the nerves
• Shingling (metallurgy), the process of consolidating iron or steel with a hammer during production
• Shingle back (Trachydosaurus rugosus), a species of skink found in Australia
• Shingled magnetic recording (SMR), a magnetic storage data recording technology used in hard disk drives
• In text mining, a token-level n-gram

Other uses:

• Shingle beach, especially in Western Europe, a beach composed of pebbles and cobbles
• Shingle bob, a short hairstyle for women in the mid-1920s
• Shingle dancing, a form of solo dancing akin to tap dancing, of African American origin
• Shingle Springs, California, formerly known as Shingle
• "Shit on a shingle", slang for chipped beef on toast
• "Hanging out a shingle", a common phrase in the legal profession meaning to start one's own law firm
• The Shingles, a sandbank off The Needles, Isle of Wight