n 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.
n A rectangular piece of steel obtained by means of a shingling process involving hammering of puddled steel.
n 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).
n (computational linguistics) A word-based n-gram.
v (transitive) To cover with small, thin pieces of building material, with shingles.
v (transitive) To cut, as hair, so that the ends are evenly exposed all over the head, like shingles on a roof.
v (transitive) To increase the storage density of (a hard disk) by writing tracks that partially overlap.
v (transitive, manufacturing) To hammer and squeeze material in order to expel cinder and impurities from it, as in metallurgy.
v (transitive) To beat with a shingle.
n A punitive strap such as a belt.
n (by extension) Any paddle used for corporal punishment.
n Small, smooth pebbles, as found on a beach.