tile

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tiles

Pronunciation

• Rhymes: -aɪl

Etymology 1

Old English tiġele

Noun

tile (plural tiles)

1. 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, etc.
2. (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.

3. Any of various types of cuboid playing piece used in certain games, such as in dominoes, Scrabble, or mahjong.
4. (dated) A stiff hat.

   (Can we find and add a quotation of Dickens to this entry?)

Derived terms

• glazed tile
• out on the tiles
• tilework

Related terms

• tiler

Translations

mostly rectangular shaped sheet of ceramic or fired clay to cover surfaces

• Albanian: tjegull (sq), pllakë (sq)
• Arabic: قرميدة (ar) (qirmiida) f, (collective) قرميد (ar) (qirmiid)
• Armenian: կղմինդր (hy) (kġmindr) , հախճասալ (hy) (haxč̣asal) 
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 瓦 (cmn) (wǎ), 磚瓦 (cmn), 砖瓦 (cmn) (zhuānwǎ)

• Czech: dlaždice (cs) f (floor tile), kachle (cs) f, obkladačka (cs) f (wall tile), taška (cs) f (roof tile)
• Danish: tegl (da) c
• Dutch: tegel m, vloertegel f, muurtegel m, pan f, dakpan f
• Esperanto: kahelo (eo), tegolo (eo)
• Finnish: keraaminen laatta, koristelaatta, kaakeli, tiili, laatta
• French: carreau (fr) m (de carrelage), tuile (fr) f
• German: Kachel (de) f, Fliese (de) f, (roof tile) Dachziegel (de) m
• Greek: πλακίδιο (el) (plakídio) n , πλακάκι (el) (plakáki) n 
• Hungarian: cserép (hu)

• Italian: (floor and wall tile) piastrella (it) f, (roof tile) tegola (it) f, coppo (it) m
• Japanese: タイル (ja) (tairu), (roof tile) 瓦 (ja) (かわら, kawara)
• Korean: ​​타일 (ko) (tail), 기와 (ko) (giwa)
• Latvian: flīze f
• Macedonian: (floor and wall tile) плочка (mk) (plóčka) f, (roof tile) ќерамида (mk) (ḱerámida)
• Portuguese: azulejo m (glazed tile), ladrilho m, telha f (roof tile)
• Romanian: țiglă (ro) f, olan (ro) n
• Russian: плитка (ru) (plítka) f , (glazed tile) кафель (ru) (káfel') m , (roof tile) черепица (ru) (čerepíca) f 
• Scottish Gaelic: leacag (gd) f
• Serbo-Croatian: pločica, kalj
• Spanish: (glazed tile) azulejo (es) m, alicatado (es) m, (floor tile) baldosa (es) f, (roof tile) teja (es) f

Verb

tile (third-person singular simple present tiles, present participle tiling, simple past and past participle tiled)

1. To cover with tiles.
2. (computing) To arrange in a regular pattern, with adjoining edges (applied to tile-like objects, graphics, windows in a computer interface).

Related terms

• tiler

Translations

to cover with tiles

• Dutch: tegelen, betegelen
• Finnish: laatoittaa (fi)
• German: kacheln (1), fliesen (1), decken (1 roof)
• Greek: πλακοστρώνω (el) (plakostróno) , στρώνω με πλακάκια (el) (stróno me plakákia) 

• Italian: piastrellare (it)
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: flislegge (nb)

• Portuguese: azulejar, ladrilhar, telhar
• Spanish: alicatar o azulejar (poner azulejos a), embaldosar; (tejado) tejar.

computing: to arrange in regular pattern

• Finnish: tiilittää (fi)

Etymology 2

See tiler (“doorkeeper at a Masonic lodge”).

Alternative forms

• tyle

Verb

tile (third-person singular simple present tiles, present participle tiling, simple past and past participle tiled)

1. To protect from the intrusion of the uninitiated.

   to tile a Masonic lodge

   tile the door

Anagrams

• lite