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Webster 1913 Edition

Tile

Tile

,
Verb.
T.
[See 2d
Tiler
.]
To protect from the intrusion of the uninitiated;
as, to
tile
a Masonic lodge
.

Tile

,
Noun.
[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.
2.
(Arch.)
(a)
A small slab of marble or other material used for flooring.
(b)
A plate of metal used for roofing.
3.
(Metal.)
A small, flat piece of dried earth or earthenware, used to cover vessels in which metals are fused.
4.
A draintile.
5.
A stiff hat.
[Colloq.]
Dickens.
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
.

Tile

,
Verb.
T.
[
imp. & p. p.
Tiled
;
p. pr. & vb. n.
Tiling
.]
1.
To cover with tiles;
as, to
tile
a house
.
2.
Fig.: To cover, as if with tiles.
The muscle, sinew, and vein,
Which
tile
this house, will come again.
Donne.

Webster 1828 Edition

Tile

TILE

,
Noun.
[L. tegula; tego, to cover; Eng. to deck.]
1.
A plate or piece of baked clay, used for covering the roofs of buildings.
The pins for fastening tiles are made of oak or fir.
2.
In metallurgy, a small flat piece of dried earth, used to cover vessels in which metals are fused.
3.
A piece of baked clay used in drains.

TILE

,
Verb.
T.
To cover with tiles; as, to tile a house.
1.
To cover, as tiles.
The muscle, sinew and vein.
Which tile this house, will come again.

Definition 2024

tile

tile

English

tiles

Noun

tile ‎(plural tiles)

  1. 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.
    • 1963, Margery Allingham, chapter 3, in The China Governess:
      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.
  2. (computing) A rectangular graphic.
    Each tile within Google Maps consists of 256 × 256 pixels.‎
    Sprites and tiles that are hidden in the prototype ROM file can be recovered.‎
  3. Any of various types of cuboid playing piece used in certain games, such as in dominoes, Scrabble, or mahjong.
  4. (dated) A stiff hat.
    (Can we find and add a quotation of Charles Dickens to this entry?)
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Verb

tile ‎(third-person singular simple present tiles, present participle tiling, simple past and past participle tiled)

  1. To cover with tiles.
  2. (computing) To arrange in a regular pattern, with adjoining edges (applied to tile-like objects, graphics, windows in a computer interface).
  3. (computing theory) To optimize (a loop in program code) by means of the tiling technique.
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Etymology 2

See tiler ‎(“doorkeeper at a Masonic lodge”).

Alternative forms

Verb

tile ‎(third-person singular simple present tiles, present participle tiling, simple past and past participle tiled)

  1. To protect from the intrusion of the uninitiated.
    to tile a Masonic lodge
    tile the door

Anagrams

Etymology

From Middle English tile, tyle, tigel, tiȝel, teȝele, from Old English tieġle, tiġle, tiġele ‎(“tile; brick”), from Proto-Germanic *tigulǭ ‎(“tile”), from Latin tēgula. Cognate with Saterland Frisian Tichel ‎(“tile”), West Frisian teil, tegel, tichel ‎(“tile”), Dutch tichel, tegel ‎(“tile”), German Ziegel ‎(“brick; tile”), Danish tegl ‎(“brick”), Swedish tegel ‎(“brick; tile”), Icelandic tigl ‎(“tile; brick”).

Pronunciation

  • Rhymes: -aɪl

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