Shingle can refer to:
- A flat covering element for a roof, including
- 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
- Herpes zoster ("shingles"), a disease of the nerves
- Shingle back (Trachydosaurus rugosus), a species of skink found in Australia. Vietnam roofjpg|thumb|The roofs of Vietnam.]] A roof is the covering on the uppermost part of a Building. A shake is a wooden shingle that is made from split logs When these are used for covering the top of a house the result is a shake Roof. Roof shingles are a roof covering consisting of individual overlapping elements A shingle beach is a Beach which is armoured with Pebbles or small to medium sized cobbles Shingling was a stage in the production of bar iron or Steel, in the finery and puddling processes Shingle dancing is a form of solo dancing akin to Tap dancing, of African American origin usually associated with Old-time music. The Queen Anne Style is a style of architecture, furniture and decoration that reached its greatest popularity in the last quarter of the 19th century manifesting itself in Herpes zoster (or simply zoster) commonly known as shingles, is a Viral disease characterized by a painful skin rash with Blisters in a limited Tiliqua rugosa, Shingle-back skink, Stump-tailed skink or Bob tail skink is a short tailed and slow moving Blue-tongued
- 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. The shingle bob is a short hairstyle for women introduced in 1924 A set of shingles comprise a w-shingling
- Toast, in diner lingo
A w-shingling is a set of unique " Shingles quot&mdashcontiguous Subsequences of tokens in a Document &mdashthat can be used to gauge Toast is sliced Bread which has been browned by exposure to dry Heat ("toasted"
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