Meaning

5 senses
  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, carpet tile, etc.

    Kachel, Fliese, Dachziegel

    пли́ткаplítka, ка́фельkáfelʹ, черепи́цаčerepíca

    пли́ткаplýtka, ка́хляkáxlja, ка́хельkáxelʹ

  2. A rectangular graphic.

    Each tile within the map consists of 256 × 256 pixels.

    Sprites and tiles that are hidden in the prototype ROM file can be recovered.

  3. Any of various flat cuboid playing pieces used in certain games, such as dominoes, Scrabble, or mahjong.

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

  4. (dated, informal)A stiff hat.

    1911, Charles Collins, Fred E. Terry and E.A. Sheppard, "Any Old Iron", British Music Hall song Dressed in style, brand-new tile, And your father's old green tie on.

  5. A Lego piece that is 1/3 the height of a brick, and is smooth without studs on top.

Examples

81 sentences
  1. The tiles that fell from the roof broke into very small pieces.

    Черепиця, що злетіла з даху, розбилась на маленькі шматочки. — triantafillou

    ruЧерепица, что слетела с крыши, разбилась на мелкие кусочки. — averoes

  2. I want to tile my kitchen floor.

  3. The tiles that fell from the roof broke into pieces.

    ruЧерепица, упавшая с крыши, разбилась вдребезги. — sharptoothed

  4. How many tiles will we need?

  5. How many tiles should we buy?

Translations

9 languages
Українська
By meaning 1
sheet of ceramic or fired clay to cover surfaces:
Русский
By meaning 1
sheet of ceramic or fired clay to cover surfaces:
Deutsch
By meaning 1
sheet of ceramic or fired clay to cover surfaces:

Origin

From Middle English tile, tyl, tigel, tiȝel, teȝele, from Old English tiġele, tieġle, tiġl

From 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.

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