Tile
English
Noun
Tile (plural Tiles)- 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, etc.
- (computing) A rectangular graphic.
- Any of various types of cuboid playing piece used in certain games, such as in dominoes, Scrabble, or mahjong.
Verb
Tile (third-person singular simple present tiles, present participle tiling, simple past and past participle tiled)
- To cover with tiles.
- To arrange in a regular pattern, with adjoining edges (applied to tile-like objects, graphics, windows in a computer interface).
Thesaurus
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, firebrick, flag, flagging, flagstone, flooring, glass, glaze, gravel, jug, lath, lath and plaster, macadam, masonry, mortar, paper, pavement, paving, paving material, paving stone, plank, plasters, porcelain, pot, pottery, 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
Pronunciation
- Rhymes: -aɪl
