noun

• (computational linguistics) A word-based n-gram.
  "In the second phase, we produce a list of all the shingles and the documents they appear in, sorted by shingle value."

verb

• (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.

verb

• (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.

noun

• (by extension) Any paddle used for corporal punishment.