Shingle may refer to:

Construction

Roof shingle Roof shingles are a roof covering consisting of individual overlapping elements. These elements are typically flat, rectangular shapes laid in courses from the bottom edge of the roof up, with each successive course overlapping the joints below. ...

s or wall shingles, including: **

Wood shingle Wood shingles are thin, tapered pieces of wood primarily used to cover roofs and walls of buildings to protect them from the weather. Historically shingles, also known as shakes, were split from straight grained, knot free ''bolts'' of wood. T ...

*** 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 Asbestos shingles are roof or wall shingles made with asbestos cement board. They often resemble slate shingles and were mass-produced during the 20th century as these were more resilient to weathering than traditional slate shingles for the re ...

, 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 Slate is a fine-grained, foliated, homogeneous metamorphic rock derived from an original shale-type sedimentary rock composed of clay or volcanic ash through low-grade regional metamorphism. It is the finest grained foliated metamorphic ...

, 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

Science and technology

Shingles Shingles, also known as zoster or herpes zoster, is a viral disease characterized by a painful skin rash with blisters in a localized area. Typically the rash occurs in a single, wide mark either on the left or right side of the body or face. ...

(''Herpes zoster''), 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 A shingle beach (also referred to as rocky beach or pebble beach) is a beach which is armoured with pebbles or small- to medium-sized cobbles (as opposed to fine sand). Typically, the stone composition may grade from characteristic sizes rangi ...

, especially in Europe, a beach composed of pebbles and cobbles * Shingle bob, a short hairstyle for women in the mid-1920s * Shingle Cove, Antarctica * Shingle dancing, a form of solo dancing akin to tap dancing, of African American origin *

Shingle Springs, California Shingle Springs (formerly, Shingle Spring and Shingle) is a census-designated place (CDP) in El Dorado County, California, United States. The population was 4,432 at the 2010 census, up from 2,643 at the 2000 census. It is located about from Sacr ...

, formerly known as Shingle *"Shit on a shingle", slang for

chipped beef on toast Chipped beef is a form of pressed, salted and dried beef that has been sliced into thin pieces. Some makers smoke the dried beef for more flavor. The modern product consists of small, thin, flexible leaves of partially dried beef, generally sold ...

*The Shingles, a sandbank near the landform called

The Needles The Needles is a row of three stacks of chalk that rise about out of the sea off the western extremity of the Isle of Wight in the English Channel, United Kingdom, close to Alum Bay and Scratchell's Bay, and part of Totland, the wester ...

, on the Isle of Wight {{disambiguation