Definitionen
1.NounA 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.
2.NounA rectangular piece of steel obtained by means of a shingling process involving hammering of puddled steel.
3.NounA 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).
4.NounA word-based n-gram.
5.VerbTo cover with small, thin pieces of building material, with shingles.
6.VerbTo cut, as hair, so that the ends are evenly exposed all over the head, like shingles on a roof.
7.VerbTo increase the storage density of (a hard disk) by writing tracks that partially overlap.
8.VerbTo hammer and squeeze material in order to expel cinder and impurities from it, as in metallurgy.
9.VerbTo beat with a shingle.
10.NounA punitive strap such as a belt.
11.NounAny paddle used for corporal punishment.
12.NounSmall, smooth pebbles, as found on a beach.
13.NounA beach or other shore covered with loose, smooth pebbles.