tile
Jump to navigation
Jump to search
English
[edit]Pronunciation
[edit]- (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /taɪl/
Audio (Southern England): (file)
- (General American) IPA(key): /ˈtaɪ.əl/
- Rhymes: -aɪl
Etymology 1
[edit]From Middle English tile, tyle, tigel, tiȝel, teȝele, from Old English tieġle, tiġle, tiġele (“tile; brick”), from Proto-West Germanic *tigulā, from Proto-Germanic *tigulǭ (“tile”), from Latin tēgula. Doublet of tegula.
Cognates
Noun
[edit]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.
- 1963, Margery Allingham, chapter 3, in The China Governess: A Mystery, London: Chatto & Windus, →OCLC:
- Sepia Delft tiles surrounded the fireplace, their crudely drawn Biblical scenes in faded cyclamen blending with the pinkish pine, while above them, instead of a mantelshelf, there was an archway high enough to form a balcony with slender balusters and a tapestry-hung wall behind.
- (computing) 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.
- Any of various flat cuboid playing pieces used in certain games, such as dominoes, Scrabble, or mahjong.
- 2005, William T. Vollmann, “They Came Out Like Ants!”, in Dave Eggers, editor, The Best American Nonrequired Reading 2005[1] (Literature), Houghton Mifflin Company, →ISBN, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 298:
- One hot summer day in the Chinese city of Nan-ning, I wandered through a park of lotus leaves and exotic flowers to a pagoda where ancient women sat, drowsily, happily playing mahjongg amidst the scent of flowers, and that excellent sound of clicking tiles enchanted me; I was far from home, but that long slow summer afternoon with the mah-jongg sounds brought me back to my own continent and specifically to Mexicali, whose summer tranquillity never ends.
- (dated, informal) A stiff hat.
- 1865, Charles Dickens, chapter III, in Doctor Marigold's Prescriptions:
- Tile - Tile, a 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.
- 1912, Arthur Conan Doyle, The Lost World […], London; New York, N.Y.: Hodder and Stoughton, →OCLC:
- Thus, when old Doctor Meldrum, with his well-known curly-brimmed opera-hat, appeared upon the platform, there was such a universal query of "Where did you get that tile?" that he hurriedly removed it, and concealed it furtively under his chair.
Derived terms
[edit]- adaptive tile refresh
- creasing tile
- Dutch tile
- encaustic tile
- field tile
- floating wood tile
- floor tile
- girih tile
- glazed tile
- out on the tiles
- paving tile
- pill tile
- quarry tile
- reflet tile
- rep-tile
- rest tile
- roof tile
- subway tile
- tilefish
- tile loose
- tile-matching game
- tile ore
- tile red
- tile saw
- tile tracking
- tilework
- Truchet tile
- vinyl composition tile
- Wang tile
- weeping tile
Descendants
[edit]- → Bengali: টালি (ṭali)
- → Japanese: タイル (tairu)
- → Korean: 타일 (tail)
- → Nepali: टाइल (ṭāil)
- → Odia: ଟାଇଲ୍ (ṭāil)
- → Welsh: teils
Translations
[edit]sheet of ceramic or fired clay to cover surfaces
|
flat cuboid playing piece used in certain games
Verb
[edit]tile (third-person singular simple present tiles, present participle tiling, simple past and past participle tiled)
- (transitive) To cover with tiles.
- The handyman tiled the kitchen.
- White marble tiled the bathroom.
- 1980, Robert M. Jones, editor, Walls and Ceilings, Time-Life Books, →ISBN, page 38:
- Some professionals begin tiling a wall by setting a full tile in the most visually prominent corner […]
- (graphical user interface) To arrange in a regular pattern, with adjoining edges (applied to tile-like objects, graphics, windows in a computer interface).
- (computing theory) To optimize (a loop in program code) by means of the tiling technique.
- (Freemasonry) To seal a lodge against intrusions from unauthorised people.
Derived terms
[edit]Translations
[edit]to cover with tiles
|
computing: to arrange in regular pattern
|
Etymology 2
[edit]See tiler (“doorkeeper at a Masonic lodge”).
Alternative forms
[edit]Verb
[edit]tile (third-person singular simple present tiles, present participle tiling, simple past and past participle tiled)
- To protect from the intrusion of the uninitiated.
- to tile a Masonic lodge
- tile the door
See also
[edit]Anagrams
[edit]Bambara
[edit]Noun
[edit]tìlé
Derived terms
[edit]Irish
[edit]Etymology
[edit](This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)
Noun
[edit]tile m (genitive singular tile, nominative plural tilí)
Declension
[edit]Declension of tile
Derived terms
[edit]- ráille tile (“poop-rail”)
- tile tosaigh (“fore-sheet”)
- tile deiridh (“stern-sheet”)
Mutation
[edit]Irish mutation | ||
---|---|---|
Radical | Lenition | Eclipsis |
tile | thile | dtile |
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs. |
Further reading
[edit]- Ó Dónaill, Niall (1977) “tile”, in Foclóir Gaeilge–Béarla, Dublin: An Gúm, →ISBN
- de Bhaldraithe, Tomás (1959) “tile”, in English-Irish Dictionary, An Gúm
- “tile”, in New English-Irish Dictionary, Foras na Gaeilge, 2013-2024
Pali
[edit]Alternative forms
[edit]Alternative scripts
Noun
[edit]tile
Spanish
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Pronunciation
[edit]Noun
[edit]tile m (plural tiles)
- (El Salvador, Honduras) soot
- Synonym: hollín
- (poetic, Honduras) darkness
- Synonym: oscuridad
- (colloquial, Honduras) hard, complicated
Further reading
[edit]- “tile”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014
- tile | Diccionario de americanismos | ASALE
Categories:
- English 1-syllable words
- English terms with IPA pronunciation
- English terms with audio links
- English 2-syllable words
- Rhymes:English/aɪl
- Rhymes:English/aɪl/1 syllable
- English terms derived from Proto-Indo-European
- English terms derived from the Proto-Indo-European root *(s)teg- (cover)
- English terms inherited from Middle English
- English terms derived from Middle English
- English terms inherited from Old English
- English terms derived from Old English
- English terms inherited from Proto-West Germanic
- English terms derived from Proto-West Germanic
- English terms inherited from Proto-Germanic
- English terms derived from Proto-Germanic
- English terms derived from Latin
- English doublets
- English lemmas
- English nouns
- English countable nouns
- English terms with quotations
- en:Computing
- English terms with usage examples
- English dated terms
- English informal terms
- English verbs
- English transitive verbs
- en:Graphical user interface
- en:Theory of computing
- en:Freemasonry
- en:Building materials
- Bambara lemmas
- Bambara nouns
- Irish lemmas
- Irish nouns
- Irish masculine nouns
- ga:Nautical
- Irish literary terms
- Irish fourth-declension nouns
- Pali non-lemma forms
- Pali noun forms
- Pali noun forms in Latin script
- Spanish terms borrowed from Pipil
- Spanish terms derived from Pipil
- Spanish 2-syllable words
- Spanish terms with IPA pronunciation
- Rhymes:Spanish/ile
- Rhymes:Spanish/ile/2 syllables
- Spanish lemmas
- Spanish nouns
- Spanish countable nouns
- Spanish masculine nouns
- Salvadorian Spanish
- Honduran Spanish
- Spanish poetic terms
- Spanish colloquialisms