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 punitive strap such as a belt.
Any paddle used for corporal punishment.
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).
Small, smooth pebbles, as found on a beach.
To hammer and squeeze material in order to expel cinder and impurities from it, as in metallurgy.
To increase the storage density of (a hard disk) by writing tracks that partially overlap.
To cut, as hair, so that the ends are evenly exposed all over the head, like shingles on a roof.
To cover with small, thin pieces of building material, with shingles.
To beat with a shingle.
A regularly-shaped slab of clay or other material, affixed to cover or decorate a surface, as in a roof-tile, glazed tile, stove tile, carpet tile, etc.
Any of various flat cuboid playing pieces used in certain games, such as dominoes, Scrabble, or mahjong.
A rectangular graphic.
To seal a lodge against intrusions from unauthorised people.
To protect from the intrusion of the uninitiated.
To arrange in a regular pattern, with adjoining edges (applied to tile-like objects, graphics, windows in a computer interface).
To optimize (a loop in program code) by means of the tiling technique.
To cover with tiles.