Shingle

What “Shingle” means

Noun

1. 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.
2. A rectangular piece of steel obtained by means of a shingling process involving hammering of puddled steel.
3. 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).
4. A word-based n-gram.

Verb

1. To cover with small, thin pieces of building material, with shingles.
2. To cut, as hair, so that the ends are evenly exposed all over the head, like shingles on a roof.
3. To increase the storage density of (a hard disk) by writing tracks that partially overlap.

Verb

1. To hammer and squeeze material in order to expel cinder and impurities from it, as in metallurgy.
2. To beat with a shingle.

Noun

1. A punitive strap such as a belt.
2. Any paddle used for corporal punishment.

Where the word comes from

From Middle English shyngel, alteration of Old English sċindel, from Proto-West Germanic *skindulā, borrowed from Late Latin scindula, from Latin scandula, from Proto-Indo-European *sked- (“to split, scatter”), from *sek- (“to cut”). Doublet of shindle.

From dialectal French chingler (“to strap, whip”), from Latin cingula (“girt, belt”), from cingere (“to girt”).

Business name ideas with “Shingle”

Industries where “Shingle” fits

We suggest this word for 3 business types and industries, including:

• Roofing Company
• Asphalt Shingle and Coating Materials Manufacturing
• Roofing Contractors