1.  shingle(n = noun.substance) shake - building material used as siding or roofing;
is a kind of building material
Derived form verb shingle₁

2.  shingle(n = noun.substance) - coarse beach gravel of small waterworn stones and pebbles (or a stretch of shore covered with such gravel);
is a kind of crushed rock, gravel
Derived form adjective shingly₁

3.  shingle(n = noun.artifact) - a small signboard outside the office of a lawyer or doctor, e.g.;
is a kind of sign, signboard

   shingle(v = verb.contact) - cover with shingles; "shingle a roof"
is one way to roof
Derived forms noun shingle₁, noun shingler₁, noun shingling₂
Sample sentences: Somebody ----s something

   Round, water-worn, and loose gravel and pebbles, or a collection of roundish stones, such as are common on the seashore and elsewhere. [1913 Webster]

1.  A piece of wood sawed or rived thin and small, with one end thinner than the other, -- used in covering buildings, especially roofs, the thick ends of one row overlapping the thin ends of the row below. [1913 Webster]
"I reached St. Asaph, . . . where there is a very poor cathedral church covered with shingles or tiles." [1913 Webster]

2.  A sign for an office or a shop; as, to hang out one's shingle. [1913 Webster]

1.  To cover with shingles; as, to shingle a roof. [1913 Webster]
"They shingle their houses with it." [1913 Webster]

2.  To cut, as hair, so that the ends are evenly exposed all over the head, as shingles on a roof. [1913 Webster]

   To subject to the process of shindling, as a mass of iron from the pudding furnace. [1913 Webster]

shingle, n. (in sing. or pl.) small rounded pebbles, esp. on a sea-shore.

Derivative:
shingly adj.

shingle, n. & v.
--n.
1 a rectangular wooden tile used on roofs, spires, or esp. walls.
2 archaic a shingled hair. b the act of shingling hair.
3 US a small signboard, esp. of a doctor, lawyer, etc.
--v.tr.
1 roof or clad with shingles.
2 archaic a cut (a woman's hair) very short. b cut the hair of (a person or head) in this way.

Etymology:
ME app. f. L scindula, earlier scandula

N  materials, material, raw material, stuff, stock, staple, adobe, brown stone, chinking, clapboard, daubing, puncheon, shake, shingle, bricks and mortar, metal, stone, clay, brick crockery, compo, composition, concrete, reinforced concrete, cement, wood, ore, timber, materials, supplies, munition, fuel, grist, household stuff pabulum, ammunition, contingents, relay, reinforcement, reenforcement, baggage, means, calico, cambric, cashmere, raw, wooden, adobe.

N  powderiness, pulverulence, sandiness, efflorescence, friability, powder, dust, sand, shingle, sawdust, grit, meal, bran, flour, farina, rice, paddy, spore, sporule, crumb, seed, grain, particle, limature, filings, debris, detritus, tailings, talus slope, scobs, magistery, fine powder, flocculi, smoke, cloud of dust, cloud of sand, cloud of smoke, puff of smoke, volume of smoke, sand storm, dust storm, pulverization, comminution, attenuation, granulation, disintegration, subaction, contusion, trituration, levigation, abrasion, detrition, multure, limitation, tripsis, filing, mill, arrastra, gristmill, grater, rasp, file, mortar and pestle, nutmeg grater, teeth, grinder, grindstone, kern, quern, koniology, powdery, pulverulent, granular, mealy, floury, farinaceous, branny, furfuraceous, flocculent, dusty, sandy, sabulous, psammous, arenose, arenarious, arenaceous, gritty, efflorescent, impalpable, lentiginous, lepidote, sabuline, sporaceous, sporous, pulverizable, friable, crumbly, shivery, pulverized, attrite, in pieces.

shingle oak, shingle tree