tile
English edit
Pronunciation edit
- (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /taɪl/
Audio (Southern England) (file)
- (General American) IPA(key): /ˈtaɪ.əl/
- Rhymes: -aɪl
Etymology 1 edit
From Middle English tile, tyle, tigel, tiȝel, teȝele, from Old English tieġle, tiġle, tiġele (“tile; brick”), from Proto-West Germanic *tigulā, from Proto-Germanic *tigulǭ (“tile”), from Latin tēgula. Doublet of tegula.
Cognates
Noun edit
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, carpet tile, etc.
- 1963, Margery Allingham, chapter 3, in The China Governess: A Mystery, London: Chatto & Windus, →OCLC:
- 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.
- (computing) A rectangular graphic.
- Each tile within the map consists of 256 × 256 pixels.
- Sprites and tiles that are hidden in the prototype ROM file can be recovered.
- Any of various flat cuboid playing pieces used in certain games, such as dominoes, Scrabble, or mahjong.
- (dated, informal) A stiff hat.
- 1865, Charles Dickens, chapter III, in Doctor Marigold's Prescriptions:
- 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.
- 1912, Arthur Conan Doyle, The Lost World […], London, New York, N.Y.: Hodder and Stoughton, →OCLC:
- 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.
Derived terms edit
- Dutch tile
- encaustic tile
- field tile
- floating wood tile
- floor tile
- girih tile
- glazed tile
- out on the tiles
- paving tile
- pill tile
- quarry tile
- reflet tile
- rep-tile
- rest tile
- roof tile
- subway tile
- tilefish
- tile-matching game
- tile ore
- tile red
- tile saw
- tile tracking
- tilework
- Truchet tile
- vinyl composition tile
- Wang tile
- weeping tile
Descendants edit
- → Bengali: টালি (ṭali)
- → Japanese: タイル (tairu)
- → Korean: 타일 (tail)
- → Nepali: टाइल (ṭāil)
- → Odia: ଟାଇଲ୍ (ṭail)
- → Welsh: teils
Translations edit
sheet of ceramic or fired clay to cover surfaces
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flat cuboid playing piece used in certain games
Verb edit
tile (third-person singular simple present tiles, present participle tiling, simple past and past participle tiled)
- (transitive) To cover with tiles.
- The handyman tiled the kitchen.
- White marble tiled the bathroom.
- 1980, Robert M. Jones, editor, Walls and Ceilings, Time-Life Books, →ISBN, page 38:
- Some professionals begin tiling a wall by setting a full tile in the most visually prominent corner […]
- (graphical user interface) To arrange in a regular pattern, with adjoining edges (applied to tile-like objects, graphics, windows in a computer interface).
- (computing theory) To optimize (a loop in program code) by means of the tiling technique.
- (Freemasonry) To seal a lodge against intrusions from unauthorised people.
Derived terms edit
Translations edit
to cover with tiles
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computing: to arrange in regular pattern
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Etymology 2 edit
See tiler (“doorkeeper at a Masonic lodge”).
Alternative forms edit
Verb edit
tile (third-person singular simple present tiles, present participle tiling, simple past and past participle tiled)
- To protect from the intrusion of the uninitiated.
- to tile a Masonic lodge
- tile the door
See also edit
Anagrams edit
Bambara edit
Noun edit
tìlé
Derived terms edit
Irish edit
Etymology edit
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Noun edit
tile m (genitive singular tile, nominative plural tilí)
Declension edit
Declension of tile
Derived terms edit
- ráille tile (“poop-rail”)
- tile tosaigh (“fore-sheet”)
- tile deiridh (“stern-sheet”)
Mutation edit
Irish mutation | ||
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Radical | Lenition | Eclipsis |
tile | thile | dtile |
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs. |
Further reading edit
- Ó Dónaill, Niall (1977) “tile”, in Foclóir Gaeilge–Béarla, Dublin: An Gúm, →ISBN
- Entries containing “tile” in English-Irish Dictionary, An Gúm, 1959, by Tomás de Bhaldraithe.
- Entries containing “tile” in New English-Irish Dictionary by Foras na Gaeilge.
Pali edit
Alternative forms edit
Alternative forms
Noun edit
tile
Spanish edit
Etymology edit
Pronunciation edit
Noun edit
tile m (plural tiles)
- (El Salvador, Honduras) soot
- Synonym: hollín
- (poetic, Honduras) darkness
- Synonym: oscuridad
- (colloquial, Honduras) hard, complicated
Further reading edit
- “tile”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014
- tile | Diccionario de americanismos | ASALE