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English

Etymology

tiġele

Pronunciation


Noun

  1. A mostly rectangular shaped sheet of ceramic or fired clay to cover surfaces, as in a roof-tile, stove tile, etc.


Translations

Derived terms


Verb

{{en-verb|tiles|tiling|tiled}}

  1. To cover with tiles.


Translations

fa:tile fr:tile io:tile id:tile it:tile ku:tile hu:tile pl:tile fi:tile ta:tile te:tile vi:tile tr:tile

GNU Project's publication of CIDE, the Collaborative International Dictionary of English Tile \Tile\, v. t. [See 2d Tiler.]
To protect from the intrusion of the uninitiated; as, to tile
a Masonic lodge.
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GNU Project's publication of CIDE, the Collaborative International Dictionary of English Tile \Tile\, n. [OE. tile, tigel, AS. tigel, tigol, fr. L.
tegula, from tegere to cover. See Thatch, and cf.
Tegular.]
1. A plate, or thin piece, of baked clay, used for covering
the roofs of buildings, for floors, for drains, and often
for ornamental mantel works.
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2. (Arch.)
(a) A small slab of marble or other material used for
flooring.
(b) A plate of metal used for roofing.
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3. (Metal.) A small, flat piece of dried earth or
earthenware, used to cover vessels in which metals are
fused.
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4. A draintile.
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5. A stiff hat. [Colloq.] --Dickens.
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Tile drain, a drain made of tiles.

Tile earth, a species of strong, clayey earth; stiff and
stubborn land. [Prov. Eng.]

Tile kiln, a kiln in which tiles are burnt; a tilery.

Tile ore (Min.), an earthy variety of cuprite.

Tile red, light red like the color of tiles or bricks.

Tile tea, a kind of hard, flat brick tea. See Brick tea,
under Brick.
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GNU Project's publication of CIDE, the Collaborative International Dictionary of English Tile \Tile\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Tiled; p. pr. & vb. n.
Tiling.]
1. To cover with tiles; as, to tile a house.
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2. Fig.: To cover, as if with tiles.
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The muscle, sinew, and vein,
Which tile this house, will come again. --Donne.
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WordNet tile
n 1: a flat thin rectangular slab (as of fired clay or rubber or
linoleum) used to cover surfaces
2: a thin flat slab of fired clay used for roofing [syn: {roofing
tile}]
v : cover with tiles; "tile the wall and the floor of the
bathroom"
Moby Dictionary
Tarmac , Tarvia , adobe , ashlar , asphalt , biscuit , bisque , bitumen ,
bituminous macadam , blacktop , board , bowl , brick ,
bricks and mortar , cement , ceramic ware , ceramics , china ,
clapboard , clinker , cobble , cobblestone , concrete ,
covering materials , crock , crockery , curb , curbing , curbstone ,
edgestone , enamelware , face , ferroconcrete , firebrick , flag ,
flagging , flagstone , flooring , glass , glaze , gravel , jug , kerb ,
kerbstone , lath , lath and plaster , macadam , masonry , mortar , paper ,
pavement , pavestone , paving , paving material , paving stone , plank ,
plasters , porcelain , pot , pottery , prestressed concrete ,
refractory , revet , road metal , roofage , roofing , shake , sheathe ,
shingle , siding , slate , stone , tarmacadam , thatch , tiling , urn ,
vase , veneer , wall in , wall up , walling , wallpaper , washboard ,
weatherboard


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