TILE

tile

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

tile

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

tile, roofing tile

(noun) a thin flat slab of fired clay used for roofing

tile

(verb) cover with tiles; “tile the wall and the floor of the bathroom”

Source: WordNet® 3.1

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Etymology 1

Noun

tile (plural tiles)

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.

(computing) A rectangular graphic.

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

(dated) A stiff hat.

Verb

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

(transitive) To cover with tiles.

(GUI) To arrange in a regular pattern, with adjoining edges (applied to tile-like objects, graphics, windows in a computer interface).

(comptheory) To optimize (a loop in program code) by means of the tiling technique.

Etymology 2

Verb

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

To protect from the intrusion of the uninitiated.

Anagrams

• -lite, IELT, Tiel, lite, teil, tiel

Source: Wiktionary

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Tile, v. t. Etym: [See 2d Tiler.]

Definition: To protect from the intrusion of the uninitiated; as, to tile a Masonic lodge.

Tile, n. Etym: [OE. tile, tigel, AS. tigel, tigol, fr. L. tegula, from tegere to cover. See Thatch, and cf. Tegular.]

1. 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. (Arch.) (a) A small slab of marble or other material used for flooring. (b) A plate of metal used for roofing.

3. (Metal.)

Definition: A small, flat piece of dried earth or earthenware, used to cover vessels in which metals are fused.

4. A draintile.

5. A stiff hat. [Colloq.] Dickens. Tile drain, a drain made of tiles.

– Tile earth, a species of strong, clayey earth; stiff and stubborn land. [Prov. Eng.] -- Tile kiln, a kiln in which tiles are burnt; a tilery.

– Tile ore (Min.), an earthy variety of cuprite.

– Tile red, light red like the color of tiles or bricks.

– Tile tea, a kind of hard, flat brick tea. See Brick tea, under Brick.

Tile, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Tiled; p. pr. & vb. n. Tiling.]

1. To cover with tiles; as, to tile a house.

2. Fig.: To cover, as if with tiles. The muscle, sinew, and vein, Which tile this house, will come again. Donne.

Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition

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