SHINGLE

'Shingle' can refer to:

★ A flat covering element for a roof, including

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★ Shake (roof)

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★ Roof shingle

★ Shingle beach, especially in Western Europe, a beach composed of pebbles

★ Shingling (metallurgy), the process of consolidating iron or steel with a hammer during production

★ A small wooden platform, used for shingle dancing

★ Shingle-style house, a part of Queen Anne Style architecture

★ 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.

★ Toast, in diner lingo.