noun A small, thin piece of building material, often with one end thicker than the other, for laying in overlapping rows as a covering for the roof or sides of a building.
noun A rectangular piece of steel obtained by means of a shingling process involving hammering of puddled steel.
noun A small signboard designating a professional office; this may be both a physical signboard or a metaphoric term for a small production company (a production shingle).
noun A word-based n-gram.
verb To cover with small, thin pieces of building material, with shingles.
verb To cut, as hair, so that the ends are evenly exposed all over the head, like shingles on a roof.
verb To increase the storage density of (a hard disk) by writing tracks that partially overlap.
verb To hammer and squeeze material in order to expel cinder and impurities from it, as in metallurgy.