Shingle can refer to:

• A flat covering element for a roof, including
  • Shake (roof)
  • Roof shingle
• Shingling (metallurgy) was a stage in the production, when iron or steel was consolidated with a hammer.
• A small wooden platform, used for shingle dancing
• Paddle (spanking), a wooden spanking implement resembling a roofing shingle
• An alluvial material of flat, rounded stones typically forming a beach at the seashore. Shingle is a coarse gravel formed by wave erosion of sedimentary rock formations
• 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".
• In text mining, a contiguous subsequence of tokens in a document used to gauge syntactic similarity. A set of shingles comprise a w-shingling.

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