Shingle(s) may refer to:

Construction

Roof shingle A roof’s 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 joint ...

s or wall shingles, including: **

Wood shingle Wood shingles are thin, tapered pieces of wood primarily used to cover roof shingle, roofs and walls of buildings to protect them from the weather. Historically roof shingle, shingles, also known as shakes, were split from straight grained, k ...

*** 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, roof or wall shingles made with asbestos-cement board ** Asphalt shingle, a common residential roofing material in North America **

Roof tiles Roof tiles are overlapping tiles designed mainly to keep out precipitation such as rain or snow, and are traditionally made from locally available materials such as clay or slate. Later tiles have been made from materials such as concrete, glass ...

, made of ceramic or other materials ** Slate shingle, 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 herpes zoster or zona, 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. T ...

(''Herpes zoster''), a disease of the nerves *

Shingling (metallurgy) Shingling was a stage in the production of bar iron or steel Steel is an alloy of iron and carbon that demonstrates improved mechanical properties compared to the pure form of iron. Due to steel's high Young's modulus, elastic modulus, Yi ...

, 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 known as either a cobble beach or gravel beach, is a commonly narrow beach that is composed of coarse, loose, well-rounded, and waterworn gravel, called ''shingle''. The gravel (shingle) typically consists of smooth, sphero ...

, 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, formerly known as Shingle *"Shit on a shingle", slang for chipped beef on toast *The Shingles, a sandbank near the landform

the Needles The Needles are 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 weste ...

, on the Isle of Wight {{disambiguation