Definitions of Tile [ɪl]

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Definition of 'Tile'

Random House Webster's College Dictionary

1. (n.) tile
a thin slab or bent piece of baked clay, sometimes painted or glazed, used for various purposes, as in forming a roof covering, floor, or revetment.

2.  tile
any of various similar slabs or pieces, as of linoleum, stone, or metal.

3.  tile
tiles collectively.

4.  tile
a pottery tube or pipe used as a drain.

5.  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.

6.  tile
a high silk hat.

7. (v.t.) tile
to cover with or as if with tiles.

8.  tile
to install drainage tile in.

Etymology: (bef. 900; ME; OE tīgele, c. OHG ziagal, ON

Definition of 'Tile'

Princeton's WordNet

1. (noun) tile
a flat thin rectangular slab (as of fired clay or rubber or linoleum) used to cover surfaces

2. (noun) tile, roofing tile
a thin flat slab of fired clay used for roofing

3. (verb) tile
game equipment consisting of a flat thin piece marked with characters and used in board games like Mah-Jong, Scrabble, etc.

4. (verb) tile
cover with tiles
"tile the wall and the floor of the bathroom"

Definition of 'Tile'

Kernerman English Learner’s Dictionary

1. (noun) tile
a flat piece of hard material, used to cover floors, walls, or roofs
floor/roof tiles

2. (verb) tile
to put tiles on sth
to tile the bathroom/kitchen/roof

Definition of 'Tile'

Webster Dictionary

1. (noun) Tile
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

2. (noun) Tile
a small slab of marble or other material used for flooring

3. (noun) Tile
a plate of metal used for roofing

4. (noun) Tile
a small, flat piece of dried earth or earthenware, used to cover vessels in which metals are fused

5. (noun) Tile
a draintile

6. (noun) Tile
a stiff hat

7. (verb) Tile
to protect from the intrusion of the uninitiated; as, to tile a Masonic lodge

8. (verb) Tile
to cover with tiles; as, to tile a house

9. (verb) Tile
fig.: To cover, as if with tiles

Translation of 'Tile'

Kernerman English Multilingual Dictionary

Sense: a piece of baked clay used in covering roofs, walls, floors etc Some of the tiles were blown off the roof during the storm.
Afrikaans: teël	Arabic: قِرْميدَه، آجُرَّه	Bulgarian: керемида
Brazilian: ladrilho	Czech: taška	German: der Ziegel
Danish: tagsten; flise; klinke	Greek: κεραμίδι	Spanish: teja; baldosa, azulejo
Estonian: katusekivi, kahhel	Farsi: کاشی	Finnish: laatta
French: tuile; carreau	Hebrew: רַעַף, אָרִיחַ	Hindi: खपरैल
Croatian: crijep, opeka	Hungarian: (tető)cserép; csempe	Indonesian: ubin
Icelandic: flís; tígulsteinn; þakskí	Italian: tegola	Japanese: タイル
Korean: 타일	Lithuanian: čerpė, koklis, plytelė	Latvian: dakstiņš; kārniņš; flīze
Malay: jubin; genting	Dutch: tegel	Norwegian: takstein, flis, panne, ka
Polish: płytka, kafel, dachówka	Portuguese: ladrilho	Romanian: ţiglă; faianţă
Russian: черепица; кафель	Slovak: dlaždica, kachlička, škri	Slovenian: strešna opeka
Serbian: pločica	Swedish: tegelpanna, kakel[platta]	Thai: แผ่นกระเบื้อง
Turkish: kiremit, fayans,çini	Taiwanese: 瓦	Ukrainian: черепиця; кахель, кераміч
Urdu: ٹائل، فرش يا ديوار پر لگا	Vietnamese: ngói	Chinese: 瓦
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