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abaciscus
English
Etymology
From New Latin, from Ancient Greek ????????? (abakískos, “a coloured stone for laying mosaic”), diminutive of ???? (ábax, “board”). See abacus.
Pronunciation
- (General American) IPA(key): /?æb.??s?s.k?s/, /?æb.??s?s.k?s/
Noun
abaciscus (plural abacisci or abaciscuses)
- (archaic) One of the tiles or squares of a tessellated pavement; an abaculus. [First attested in the mid 18th century.]
References
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tile
English
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ta?l/
- Rhymes: -a?l
Etymology 1
From Middle English tile, tyle, tigel, ti?el, te?ele, from Old English tie?le, ti?le, ti?ele (“tile; brick”), from Proto-Germanic *tigul? (“tile”), from Latin t?gula. Cognate with Saterland Frisian Tichel (“tile”), West Frisian teil, tegel, tichel (“tile”), Dutch tichel, tegel (“tile”), German Ziegel (“brick; tile”), Danish tegl (“brick”), Swedish tegel (“brick; tile”), Icelandic tigl (“tile; brick”). Doublet of tegula.
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, informal) A stiff hat.
- 1865, Charles Dickens, Doctor Marigold's Prescriptions, Chapter III
- 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.
- 1865, Charles Dickens, Doctor Marigold's Prescriptions, Chapter III
Derived terms
Descendants
- ? Bengali: ???? (?ali)
- ? Japanese: ??? (tairu)
- ? Korean: ?? (tail)
- ? Nepali: ???? (??il)
- ? Oriya: ????? (?ail)
- ? Welsh: teils
Translations
Verb
tile (third-person singular simple present tiles, present participle tiling, simple past and past participle tiled)
- (transitive) To cover with tiles.
- (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
- tiler
Translations
Etymology 2
See tiler (“doorkeeper at a Masonic lodge”).
Alternative forms
- tyle
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.
See also
- Tile Hill
Anagrams
- -lite, IELT, Tiel, lite, teil, tiel
Irish
Etymology
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Noun
tile m (genitive singular tile, nominative plural tilí)
- (nautical, literary) board, plank (of boat)
- (nautical)
- sheets
- poop
Declension
Derived terms
Mutation
Further reading
- "tile" in Foclóir Gaeilge–Béarla, An Gúm, 1977, by Niall Ó Dónaill.
- Entries containing “tile” in English-Irish Dictionary, An Gúm, 1959, by Tomás de Bhaldraithe.
- Entries containing “tile” in New English-Irish Dictionary by Foras na Gaeilge.
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