Tile
[taɪl]
Definition
(noun.) a flat thin rectangular slab (as of fired clay or rubber or linoleum) used to cover surfaces.
(noun.) game equipment consisting of a flat thin piece marked with characters and used in board games like Mah-Jong, Scrabble, etc..
(noun.) a thin flat slab of fired clay used for roofing.
(verb.) cover with tiles; 'tile the wall and the floor of the bathroom'.
Edited by Darrell--From WordNet
Definition
(v. t.) To protect from the intrusion of the uninitiated; as, to tile a Masonic lodge.
(n.) 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.
(n.) A small slab of marble or other material used for flooring.
(n.) A plate of metal used for roofing.
(n.) A small, flat piece of dried earth or earthenware, used to cover vessels in which metals are fused.
(n.) A draintile.
(n.) A stiff hat.
(v. t.) To cover with tiles; as, to tile a house.
(v. t.) Fig.: To cover, as if with tiles.
Editor: Sheldon
Definition
n. a piece of baked clay used for covering roofs floors &c.: a tube or pipe of baked clay used in drains: (slang) a tall cylindrical silk hat.—v.t. to cover with tiles: to drain by means of tiles: to secure against the intrusion of unauthorised persons by placing a person at the door of a lodge or close meeting.—ns. Tī′ler one who makes or who lays tiles: the keeper of the door in a Freemasons' lodge—also Ty′ler; Tile′-red a brownish-red the colour of baked tiles; Tī′lery a place where tiles are made; Tile′-stone a tile: (pl. geol.) the uppermost group of the Silurian period consisting of a reddish thin-bedded slightly micaceous sandstone; Tī′ling a roof of tiles: tiles in general.—Dutch tiles enamelled earthenware tiles usually blue with scriptural subjects for chimney pieces &c.
Checker: Walter
Examples
- Wherever white tile is not possible, white paint is used in profusion. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
- Cement, brick, tile and wood were used as building material, with various results. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
- Tain't a wery good 'un to look at,' said Sam, 'but it's an astonishin' 'un to wear; and afore the brim went, it was a wery handsome tile. Charles Dickens. The Pickwick Papers.
- He came back as the door was opened, and announced that he believed he had identified 'his governor's tile. Charles Dickens. Little Dorrit.
- Her best tile got a splash of water, which left a sepia tear on the Cupid's cheek. Louisa May Alcott. Little Women.
- They built of brick, they made pottery and earthenware images, and they drew and presently wrote upon thin tile-like cakes of clay. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- With heart drawn fine, Gerald stepped into the hall, whose floor was of coloured tiles, went quickly and looked into the large, pleasant room. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
- Let's have a look at your garden on the tiles, before I go! Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
- Fragments of this work have been preserved, exquisite painted tiles, and also painted glass, setting forth the story of Psyche, which Palissy prepared for the chateau. Rupert S. Holland. Historic Inventions.
- He also made very beautiful tiles to overlay walls, stoves, and floors. Rupert S. Holland. Historic Inventions.
- In plastics there are brick machines, pressed glass ware, enameled sheet iron ware, tiles, paper buckets, celluloid and rubber articles. Edward W. Byrn. The Progress of Invention in the Nineteenth Century.
- No, no--see that your tenants don't sell their straw, and that kind of thing; and give them draining-tiles, you know. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
- Who could continue to exist where there are no cows but the cows on the chimney-pots; nothing redolent of Pan but pan-tiles; no crop but stone crop? Charles Dickens. The Pickwick Papers.
- Some distance off, across a paddock, lay a long gray-tiled out-building. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes.
- Even then, I would have avoided the room where they all were, but for its being the neat-tiled kitchen I have mentioned more than once. Charles Dickens. David Copperfield.
- The Chinese ages ago heated their hollow tiled floors by underground furnace fires. William Henry Doolittle. Inventions in the Century.
- The kitchen did look more substantial, because of the red-tiled floor and the stove, but it was cold and horrid. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
- Here she was, in the tiled kitchen, cooking dinner! Charles Dickens. David Copperfield.
- There was a low plastered ceiling to a part of it; the rest was open, to the ridge of the tiled roof, and there were beams across. Charles Dickens. A Tale of Two Cities.
- A sort of tiled veranda extended along one side of it, lined by several windows and two doors. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Return of Sherlock Holmes.
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