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▸ noun:  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.
▸ noun:  A rectangular piece of steel obtained by means of a shingling process involving hammering of puddled steel.
▸ noun:  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).
▸ noun:  (computational linguistics) A word-based n-gram.
▸ verb:  (transitive) To cover with small, thin pieces of building material, with shingles.
▸ verb:  (transitive) To cut, as hair, so that the ends are evenly exposed all over the head, like shingles on a roof.
▸ verb:  (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.
▸ verb:  (transitive) To beat with a shingle.
▸ noun:  A punitive strap such as a belt.
▸ noun:  (by extension) Any paddle used for corporal punishment.
▸ noun:  Small, smooth pebbles, as found on a beach.

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