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 ...

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Shake (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. ...

, 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 A tree usually 15–18 meters (50–60 feet) high, maxi ...

, 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 ...

, roof or wall shingles made with asbestos-cement board *

Asphalt shingle An asphalt shingle is a type of wall or roof shingle that uses asphalt for waterproofing. It is one of the most widely used roofing covers in North America because it has a relatively inexpensive up-front cost and is fairly simple to install. ...

, a common residential roofing material in North America *

Roof tiles Roof tiles are designed mainly to keep out rain, and are traditionally made from locally available materials such as terracotta or slate. Modern materials such as concrete, metal and plastic are also used and some clay tiles have a waterproof ...

, 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 rock ...

, 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, a plain American house style with little ornamentation

Science and technology

* Shingles (''Herpes zoster''), a disease of the nerves * Shingling (metallurgy), the process of consolidating iron or steel with a hammer during production *

Shingle back ''Tiliqua rugosa'', most commonly known as the shingleback lizard 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 or sleepy lizar ...

(''Trachydosaurus rugosus''), a species of skink found in Australia *

Shingled magnetic recording Shingled magnetic recording (SMR) is a magnetic storage data recording technology used in hard disk drives (HDDs) to increase storage density and overall per-drive storage capacity. Conventional hard disk drives record data by writing non-overl ...

(SMR), a magnetic storage data recording technology used in hard disk drives *In text mining, a token-level n-gram

Other uses

* Shingle beach, especially in Europe, a beach composed of pebbles and cobbles * Shingle bob, 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, formerly known as Shingle *"Shit on a shingle", slang for chipped beef on toast *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 westernmo ...

, on the Isle of Wight {{disambiguation