tile

Speech parts

1. tile - Noun

2. tile - Verb

Meaning

To protect from the intrusion of the uninitiated; as, to tile a Masonic lodge.

A plate, or thin piece, of baked clay, used for covering the roofs of buildings, for floors, for drains, and often for ornamental mantel works.

A small slab of marble or other material used for flooring.

A plate of metal used for roofing.

A small, flat piece of dried earth or earthenware, used to cover vessels in which metals are fused.

A draintile.

A stiff hat.

To cover with tiles; as, to tile a house.

Fig.: To cover, as if with tiles.

Source: Webster's dictionary

Synonyms

brick slate slab shingle paving stone roofing tile floor tile roof tile adobe domino parquet surface stone mosaic tar
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Antonyms

whole roof

Hypernyms

man cover piece slab roofing material

Hyponyms

tessellate pantile hip tile hipped tile ridge tile

Phrases with the word

adaptive tile refresh acoustic tile stone tile caustic tile tile setter tile cutter

Derivatives

tiled tiling

Anagrams

lite teil tiel IELT

Examples

I can install toilets. I know all about the wax ring. I can tile floors. I'm learning how to do basic wiring. Sandra Bullock

For too little of tile best Marle can doe but little good, and too nmch therof hath beene alreadie founde to bee verie hurtfull to the Corne. Hugh Plat

Tile is going to the landfill by the metric ton. All we have to do it gather it up, glue it down to the floor and grout it. Then you have a tile floor, and not just any tile floor: it's a mosaic of your own choosing. Dan Phillips

Better to be a crystal and to be broken, than to be a tile upon the housetop. Japanese Proverb

During a storm you do not take shelter under just one roofing tile. Bayansi Proverb

There is a tile on the roof. Hungarian Proverb

Close letter words and terms

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