tile

CEFRB1

/taɪl/

noun · verb

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In plain English

  1. 01

    noun

    A flat piece used to cover floors, walls, or roofs.

  2. 02

    verb

    To cover a surface with tiles.

Examples

  • The tile that fell from the roof broke into pieces.

  • The floor tile split in four.

At a glance

Sits at B1 on the CEFR scale

Senses
5
Parts of speech
2
Citations
4

Deep Dive

noun

Extra meanings

  1. A rectangular graphic.

  2. Any of various flat cuboid playing pieces used in certain games, such as dominoes, Scrabble, or mahjong.

  3. 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.

More examples

In context

  • Each tile within the map consists of 256 × 256 pixels.

  • Sprites and tiles that are hidden in the prototype ROM file can be recovered.

  • 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.

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Origin

noun

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 telh...