tile meaning
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[-aɪl] WTile
- A tile is a manufactured piece of hard-wearing material such as ceramic, stone, metal, or even glass, generally used for covering roofs, floors, walls, showers, or other objects such as tabletops.
- Tiles are often used to form wall and floor coverings, and can range from simple square tiles to complex mosaics.
- NounPLtilesSUF-ile
- 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.
- 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 Google Maps consists of 256 × 256 pixels.
- Sprites and tiles that are hidden in the prototype ROM file can be recovered.
- Any of various types of cuboid playing piece used in certain games, such as in dominoes, Scrabble, or mahjong.
- (dated) A stiff hat.
- 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.
- VerbSGtilesPRtilingPT, PPtiled
- To cover with tiles.
- (computing) 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.
- To protect from the intrusion of the uninitiated.
- to tile a Masonic lodge
- tile the door
- To cover with tiles.
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- Used in the Middle of Sentence
- Each tile within Google Maps consists of 256 × 256 pixels.
- The tiles were wearing thin due to years of children's feet.
- Some old, underfired clay pantiles might be damaged by button mosses rooting in cracks and fissures. But most post-war tiles are hard enough to withstand a bit of moss growth.
- Used in the Ending of Sentence
- We give a combinatorial proof of this theorem and prove several additional statements on three-codimensional faces of parallelohedral tiling.
- Used in the Middle of Sentence
Definition of tile in English Dictionary
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Source: Wiktionary
Grammatically, this word "tile" is a noun, more specifically, a countable noun. It's also a verb.