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 ...

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Shake (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 ...

, a wooden shingle that is split from a bolt, with a more rustic appearance than a sawed shingle ***

Quercus imbricaria ''Quercus imbricaria'', the shingle oak, is a deciduous tree in the red oak group of oaks. It is native primarily to the Midwestern and Upper South regions of North America. Description Quercus imbricaria is usually high, maximum height 100 ...

, 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 r ...

, 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 Solar shingles, also called photovoltaic shingles, are solar panels designed to look like and function as conventional roofing materials, such as asphalt shingle or slate, while also producing electricity. Solar shingles are a type of solar energ ...

, a solar collector designed to look like a roof shingle *

Shingle style architecture The shingle style is an American architectural style made popular by the rise of the New England school of architecture, which eschewed the highly ornamented patterns of the Eastlake style in Queen Anne style architecture in the United States, Que ...

, 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 ''Tiliqua rugosa'', most commonly known as the shingleback skink, stumptail skink or bobtail lizard, is a short-tailed, slow-moving species of blue-tongued skink (genus ''Tiliqua'') endemic to Australia. It is commonly known as the shingleback ...

(''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 An ''n''-gram is a sequence of ''n'' adjacent symbols in particular order. The symbols may be ''n'' adjacent letter (alphabet), letters (including punctuation marks and blanks), syllables, or rarely whole words found in a language dataset; or ...

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 bob cut, also known as a bob, is a short to medium length haircut, in which the hair is typically cut straight around the head at approximately jaw level, and no longer than shoulder-length, often with a fringe at the front. The standard bob c ...

, a short hairstyle for women in the mid-1920s *

Shingle Cove Shingle Cove is a small, sheltered cove in the north-west corner of Iceberg Bay, several kilometres east of Cape Hansen, on the south coast of Coronation Island, in the South Orkney Islands of Antarctica. The nearest research station is the ...

, Antarctica *

Shingle dancing Shingle dancing is a form of solo dancing akin to tap dancing, of African American origin, usually associated with old-time music. A shingle dancer dances on a small wooden platform (typically no more than about 30 inches square), sometimes equippe ...

, 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 *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