tile
To cover with tilesTo cover with tiles.
» The tiles that fell from the roof broke into very small pieces.
Черепица, что слетела с крыши, разбилась на мелкие кусочки.
Черепиця, що злетіла з даху, розбилась на маленькі шматочки.
Meaning
5 senses(transitive)To cover with tiles.
The handyman tiled the kitchen.
White marble tiled the bathroom.
fliesen, kacheln, decken
cover with tiles
To arrange in a regular pattern, with adjoining edges (applied to tile-like objects, graphics, windows in a computer interface).
parzellieren
To optimize (a loop in program code) by means of the tiling technique.
To seal a lodge against intrusions from unauthorised people.
To protect from the intrusion of the uninitiated.
to tile a Masonic lodge
tile the door
Examples
81 sentencesThe tiles that fell from the roof broke into very small pieces.
Черепиця, що злетіла з даху, розбилась на маленькі шматочки.
ruЧерепица, что слетела с крыши, разбилась на мелкие кусочки.
I want to tile my kitchen floor.
The tiles that fell from the roof broke into pieces.
ruЧерепица, упавшая с крыши, разбилась вдребезги.
How many tiles will we need?
How many tiles should we buy?
Translations
6 languagesBy meaning 2
Origin
From Middle English tile, tyl, tigel, tiȝel, teȝele, from Old English tiġele, tieġle, tiġlFrom Middle English tile, tyl, tigel, tiȝel, teȝele, from Old English tiġele, tieġle, tiġle (“tile, brick”), from Proto-West Germanic *tigulā (“tile, brick”), from Proto-Germanic *tigulǭ (“tile, brick”), from Latin tēgula, from Proto-Indo-European *(s)teg- (“to cover”). Doublet of tegula.
See tiler (“doorkeeper at a Masonic lodge”).
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Forms
tiles, tiling, tiled, tiledWord family
6 related wordsLessons for this word
3 lessons- A1Present simple — Because it is a verb
- A1Past simple, regular verbs — Because of its past form
- A2Present perfect: introduction — Because of its past participle