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tile (disambiguation)

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Pronunciation

(Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /taɪl/Category:English 1-syllable words#TILECategory:English terms with IPA pronunciation#TILE
- Audio (Southern England): (file)
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(General American) IPA^(key): /ˈtaɪ.əl/Category:English 2-syllable words#TILE Category:English terms with IPA pronunciation#TILE
Rhymes: -aɪl Category:Rhymes:English/aɪl#TILE Category:Rhymes:English/aɪl/1 syllable#TILE

Etymology 1

Category:English terms derived from Proto-Indo-European#TILE Category:English terms derived from the Proto-Indo-European root *(s)teg- (cover)#TILE

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 telha, tella (“roof tile”), Italian tegola (“roof tile”), Mirandese teilha (“roof tile”), Portuguese telha (“roof tile”), Spanish teja (“roof tile”), Belarusian цэ́гла (céhla, “brick”), Czech cihla (“brick”), Polish cegła (“brick”), Serbo-Croatian cígla (“brick”), Ukrainian це́гла (céhla, “brick”), Finnish tiili (“brick, tile”).

Noun

tile (plural tiles)Category:English lemmas#TILE Category:English nouns#TILE Category:English countable nouns#TILE Category:English entries with incorrect language header#TILE Category:Pages with entries#TILE Category:Pages with 6 entries#TILE

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.
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(computing Category:en:Computing#TILE) A rectangular graphic.
Each tile within the map consists of 256 × 256 pixels.Category:English terms with usage examples#TILE

Sprites and tiles that are hidden in the prototype ROM file can be recovered.Category:English terms with usage examples#TILE
Any of various flat cuboid playing pieces used in certain games, such as dominoes, Scrabble, or mahjong.
- 2005, William T. Vollmann, “They Came Out Like Ants!”, in Dave Eggers, editor, The Best American Nonrequired Reading 2005‎ (Literature), Houghton Mifflin Company, →ISBN, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 298:
  One hot summer day in the Chinese city of Nan-ning, I wandered through a park of lotus leaves and exotic flowers to a pagoda where ancient women sat, drowsily, happily playing mahjongg amidst the scent of flowers, and that excellent sound of clicking tiles enchanted me; I was far from home, but that long slow summer afternoon with the mah-jongg sounds brought me back to my own continent and specifically to Mexicali, whose summer tranquillity never ends.
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(dated Category:English dated terms#TILE, informal Category:English informal terms#TILE) A stiff hat.
- 1865, Charles Dickens, chapter III, in Doctor Marigold's Prescriptions:
  Tile - Tile, a Hat.
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- 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.
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(Lego building) A Lego piece that is 1/3 the height of a brick, and is smooth without studs on top.