shingle

IPA: ʃˈɪŋgʌɫ

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.
A rectangular piece of steel obtained by means of a shingling process involving hammering of puddled steel.
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).
(computational linguistics) A word-based n-gram.
A punitive strap such as a belt.
(by extension) Any paddle used for corporal punishment.
Small, smooth pebbles, as found on a beach.

(transitive) To cover with small, thin pieces of building material, with shingles.
(transitive) To cut, as hair, so that the ends are evenly exposed all over the head, like shingles on a roof.
(transitive) To increase the storage density of (a hard disk) by writing tracks that partially overlap.
(transitive, manufacturing) To hammer and squeeze material in order to expel cinder and impurities from it, as in metallurgy.
(transitive) To beat with a shingle.

Examples of "shingle" in Sentences

But hanging out a shingle is suddenly on the upswing, especially among people over 50.
Rapping the knife with a baton, split a thin shingle from the side of a dry wood block.
If you remember, DiCaprio's production shingle is also behind Warner Bros 'live-action "Akira."
Every time a shingle is added to the gimcrack, ramshackle governance structure that we're propping up, another door falls off its hinges.
Savills International and Aylesford Indigenous materials were used during construction wherever possible, including rock and shingle from the local riverbeds and aggregate for the concrete during building.