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Tile   /taɪl/   Listen
Tile

noun
1.
A flat thin rectangular slab (as of fired clay or rubber or linoleum) used to cover surfaces.
2.
A thin flat slab of fired clay used for roofing.  Synonym: roofing tile.
3.
Game equipment consisting of a flat thin piece marked with characters and used in board games like Mah-Jong, Scrabble, etc..
verb
(past & past part. tiled; pres. part. tiling)
1.
Cover with tiles.



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"Tile" Quotes from Famous Books



... road; on either hand some half-dozen cottages with roofs of thatch or red tile, backed by trees gnarled and ancient, among which rises the red conical roof of some oast-house. Such, in ...
— The Broad Highway • Jeffery Farnol
... in front of the house and once more found there the same murmuring palms, the same rubblework benches with seats and backs of flowered tile that he knew so well. There, in fact, she had so often laughed at his ...
— The Torrent - Entre Naranjos • Vicente Blasco Ibanez
... works in broad daylight, on a tile, on a pebble, on a branch in the hedge; none of her trade-practises is kept a secret from the observer's curiosity. The Osmia loves mystery. She wants a dark retreat, hidden from the eye. I would like, nevertheless, to watch her in the privacy ...
— Bramble-bees and Others • J. Henri Fabre
... important for you, my dear Franz, is to complete your Ion [The original tile of the Opera now called "L'Apollonide", which Servais still keeps in his portfolio, though it is finished.]. This will be your advent as composer, for a complete and resounding success in which you have the ...
— Letters of Franz Liszt, Volume 2: "From Rome to the End" • Franz Liszt; letters collected by La Mara and translated
... a brickbat)—Ver. 187. "Laterem lavare," "to wash a brick," or "tile," was a proverb signifying labor in vain, probably because (if the brick was previously baked) it was impossible to wash away the red color of it. According to some, the saying alluded to the act of washing a brick which had been only dried in the sun, in which case the party so doing ...
— The Comedies of Terence - Literally Translated into English Prose, with Notes • Publius Terentius Afer, (AKA) Terence


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