tile
EnglishEdit
PronunciationEdit
- (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /taɪl/
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- (General American) IPA(key): /ˈtaɪ.əl/
- Rhymes: -aɪl
Etymology 1Edit
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
NounEdit
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[1]:
- 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, Doctor Marigold's Prescriptions, Chapter III
- 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.
- 1865, Charles Dickens, Doctor Marigold's Prescriptions, Chapter III
Derived termsEdit
DescendantsEdit
- → Bengali: টালি (ṭali)
- → Japanese: タイル (tairu)
- → Korean: 타일 (tail)
- → Nepali: टाइल (ṭāil)
- → Oriya: ଟାଇଲ୍ (ṭail)
- → Welsh: teils
TranslationsEdit
sheet of ceramic or fired clay to cover surfaces
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flat cuboid playing piece used in certain games
VerbEdit
tile (third-person singular simple present tiles, present participle tiling, simple past and past participle tiled)
- (transitive) To cover with tiles.
- 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 […]
- The handyman tiled the kitchen.
- White marble tiled the bathroom.
- (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 termsEdit
TranslationsEdit
to cover with tiles
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computing: to arrange in regular pattern
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Etymology 2Edit
See tiler (“doorkeeper at a Masonic lodge”).
Alternative formsEdit
VerbEdit
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 alsoEdit
AnagramsEdit
BambaraEdit
NounEdit
tìlé
Derived termsEdit
IrishEdit
EtymologyEdit
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NounEdit
tile m (genitive singular tile, nominative plural tilí)
DeclensionEdit
Declension of tile
Derived termsEdit
- ráille tile (“poop-rail”)
- tile ceathrún (“quarter-deck”)
- tile deiridh (“stern-sheet”)
- tile tosaigh (“fore-sheet”)
MutationEdit
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 readingEdit
- 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.
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Alternative forms
NounEdit
tile