Shingle
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Shingle can refer to:
- A flat covering element for a roof, including
- Shake (shingle), a wooden shingle that is made from split logs
- Roof shingle, a roof covering consisting of individual overlapping elements
- Shingle beach, especially in Western Europe, a beach composed of pebbles
- Shingle, former name of Shingle Springs, California
- Shingling (metallurgy), the process of consolidating iron or steel with a hammer during production
- A small wooden platform, used for shingle dancing
- Shingle style architecture, a plain American house style with little ornamentation
- An alluvial material of flat slate stones with edges rounded by erosion, typically forming a shingle beach at the seashore
- 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
- 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
- "Hanging out a shingle", a common phrase in the legal profession meaning to start one's own law firm. It can also be applied to other businesses or trades.
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