tile
Part of speech: noun
verb
Morphological type: simple
Topics: Freemasonry
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computing-theory
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Etymology: From Middle English tile, tyle, tigel, tiȝel, teȝele, from Old English tieġle, tiġle, tiġele (“tile, brick”), from Proto-West Germanic *tigulā (“tile, brick”), from Proto-Germanic *tigulǭ (“tile, brick”), from Latin tēgula, from Proto-Indo-European *(s)teg- (“to cover”). Doublet of tegula.
Cognates
Cognate with Saterland Frisian Tichel (“tile”), Dutch tichel (“brick”), tegel (“tile”), German Ziegel (“brick, roof tile”), Luxembourgish Zill (“brick, tile”), Danish tegl (“brick”), Faroese tigul (“tile”), Icelandic tigl (“brick, tile”), Norwegian Nynorsk tegl (“brick, roof tile”), Swedish tegel (“brick, tile”), Asturian teya (“tile”), Catalan teula (“tile”), French tuile (“tile”), Galician telha, tella (“roof tile”), Italian tegola (“roof tile”), Mirandese teilha (“roof tile”), Portuguese telha (“roof tile”), Spanish teja (“roof tile”), Belarusian цэ́гла (céhla, “brick”), Czech cihla (“brick”), Polish cegła (“brick”), Serbo-Croatian cígla (“brick”), Ukrainian це́гла (céhla, “brick”), Finnish tiili (“brick, tile”).
Inflected forms:
form: tiles
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: tiles
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: tiling
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: tiled
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: tiled
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: 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.
pos: noun
examples: Sepia Delft tiles surrounded the fireplace, their crudely drawn Biblical scenes in faded cyclamen blending with the pinkish pine, while above them, instead of a mantelshelf, there was an archway high enough to form a balcony with slender balusters and a tapestry-hung wall behind.
gloss: A rectangular graphic.
pos: noun
examples: Each tile within the map consists of 256 × 256 pixels.
Sprites and tiles that are hidden in the prototype ROM file can be recovered.
gloss: Any of various flat cuboid playing pieces used in certain games, such as dominoes, Scrabble, or mahjong.
pos: noun
examples: One hot summer day in the Chinese city of Nan-ning, I wandered through a park of lotus leaves and exotic flowers to a pagoda where ancient women sat, drowsily, happily playing mahjongg amidst the scent of flowers, and that excellent sound of clicking tiles enchanted me; I was far from home, but that long slow summer afternoon with the mah-jongg sounds brought me back to my own continent and specifically to Mexicali, whose summer tranquillity never ends.
gloss: A stiff hat.
pos: noun
tags: dated
informal
examples: Tile - Tile, a Hat.
1911, Charles Collins, Fred E. Terry and E.A. Sheppard, "Any Old Iron", British Music Hall song
Dressed in style, brand-new tile, And your father's old green tie on.
Thus, when old Doctor Meldrum, with his well-known curly-brimmed opera-hat, appeared upon the platform, there was such a universal query of "Where did you get that tile?" that he hurriedly removed it, and concealed it furtively under his chair.
gloss: A Lego piece that is 1/3 the height of a brick, and is smooth without studs on top.
pos: noun
gloss: To cover with tiles.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: The handyman tiled the kitchen.
White marble tiled the bathroom.
Some professionals begin tiling a wall by setting a full tile in the most visually prominent corner […]
gloss: To arrange in a regular pattern, with adjoining edges (applied to tile-like objects, graphics, windows in a computer interface).
pos: verb
gloss: To optimize (a loop in program code) by means of the tiling technique.
pos: verb
gloss: To seal a lodge against intrusions from unauthorised people.
pos: verb
Derived words: adaptive tile refresh
blue-tile fever
creasing tile
draintile
Dutch tile
encaustic tile
field tile
floating wood tile
floor tile
girih tile
glazed tile
metatile
microtile
monotile
out on the tiles
pantile
paving tile
pill tile
prototile
quarry tile
reflet tile
rep-tile
rest tile
ridge tile
roofing tile
roof tile
rooftile
subway tile
supertile
tilebased
tileboard
tilefish
tileless
tilelike
tile loose
tilemaker
tilemaking
tilemap
tilemapped
tilemapping
tile-matching game
tile ore
tile red
tilery
tile saw
tileset
tilestone
tile stove
tile tracking
tilewise
tilework
tileworks
tileyard
Truchet tile
undertile
vinyl composition tile
Wang tile
weeping tile
untile
retile
tileability
tileable
tiler
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