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tile
[ tahyl ]
noun
- a thin slab or bent piece of baked clay, sometimes painted or glazed, used for various purposes, as to form one of the units of a roof covering, floor, or revetment.
- any of various similar slabs or pieces, as of linoleum, stone, rubber, or metal.
- tiles collectively.
- a flat, rectangular playing piece used in certain games, as Scrabble and mah-jongg.
- a pottery tube or pipe used for draining land.
- Also called hollow tile. any of various hollow or cellular units of burnt clay or other materials, as gypsum or cinder concrete, for building walls, partitions, floors, and roofs, or for fireproofing steelwork or the like.
- Informal. a stiff hat or high silk hat.
verb (used with object)
tiled, tiling.
- to cover with or as with tiles.
tile
/ ³Ù²¹Éª±ô /
noun
- a flat thin slab of fired clay, rubber, linoleum, etc, usually square or rectangular and sometimes ornamental, used with others to cover a roof, floor, wall, etc tegular
- a short pipe made of earthenware, concrete, or plastic, used with others to form a drain
- tiles collectively
- a rectangular block used as a playing piece in mah jong and other games
- old-fashioned.a hat
- on the tiles informal.on a spree, esp of drinking or debauchery
verb
- tr to cover with tiles
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Derived Forms
- ˈ³Ù¾±±ô±ð°ù, noun
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Other ˜yÐÄvlog Forms
- ³Ù¾±±ô±ðl¾±°ì±ð adjective
- °ù±ð·³Ù¾±±ô±ð verb (used with object) retiled retiling
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˜yÐÄvlog History and Origins
Origin of tile1
First recorded before 900; Middle English; Old English ³ÙÄ«²µ±ð±ô±ð (cognate with German Ziegel ), from Latin ³Ùŧ²µ³Ü±ô²¹
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˜yÐÄvlog History and Origins
Origin of tile1
Old English ³ÙÄ«²µ±ð±ô±ð, from Latin ³Ùŧ²µ³Ü±ô²¹; related to German Ziegel
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Today, its high ceilings and patterned tiled floors remain as relics of a younger Los Angeles.
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It was a bittersweet moment for Elachi, 76, who had danced down that tiled staircase when she and her husband first saw the home during an open house in the early 1980s.
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Instead, he claims they put up scaffolding, replaced all of his tiles and gave him a bill for £31,680.
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The pool is murky and dark, and she remembers how she had searched for the perfect tiles to catch the sun at certain times of day.
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"There are some young men who now demand payment to guard graves overnight, especially those with tiles."
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