shingle

n. thin piece of wood stone or other material laid in overlapping rows on a roof or wall; small smooth stones on beaches and shores; short hairstyle for women; small signboard (especially one placed at the entrance to a doctor or lawyer's office)

v. lay shingles, cover with shingles; cut hair very short

Shingle can refer to:A flat covering element for a roof, includingShake (roof)Roof shingleShingle beach, especially in Western Europe, a beach composed of pebblesShingling (metallurgy), the process of consolidating iron or steel with a hammer during productionA small wooden platform, used for shingle dancingShingle-style house, a part of Queen Anne Style architecturePaddle (spanking), a wooden spanking implement resembling a roofing shingleAn alluvial material of flat slate stones with edges rounded by erosion, typically forming a beach at the seashoreHerpes zoster ("shingles"), a disease of the nervesShingle back (Trachydosaurus rugosus), a species of skink found in Australia.Commercial signage, as in "to hang out one's shingle".shingle bob, a short hairstyle for women in the mid 1920sIn text mining, a contiguous subsequence of tokens in a document used to gauge syntactic similarity. A set of shingles comprise a w-shingling.Toast, in diner lingo.
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Noun
1. building material used as siding or roofing
(synonym) shake
(hypernym) building material
2. coarse beach gravel of small water-worn stones and pebbles (or a stretch of shore covered with such gravel)
(hypernym) gravel, crushed rock
3. a small signboard outside the office of a lawyer or doctor, e.g.
(hypernym) signboard, sign
Verb
1. cover with shingles; "shingle a roof"
(hypernym) roof
(derivation) shake

(v. t.)
To subject to the process of shindling, as a mass of iron from the pudding furnace.
  

(v. t.)
To cut, as hair, so that the ends are evenly exposed all over the head, as shingles on a roof.
  

(v. t.)
To cover with shingles; as, to shingle a roof.
  

(n.)
Round, water-worn, and loose gravel and pebbles, or a collection of roundish stones, such as are common on the seashore and elsewhere.
  

(n.)
A sign for an office or a shop; as, to hang out one's shingle.
  

(n.)
A piece of wood sawed or rived thin and small, with one end thinner than the other, -- used in covering buildings, especially roofs, the thick ends of one row overlapping the thin ends of the row below.
  

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