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English

Etymology

From Ancient Greek ????????? (keramikós, “potter's”), from ??????? (kéramos, “potter's clay”), perhaps from a pre-Hellenic word.

Pronunciation

• (General American, Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /s???æm?k/
• Rhymes: -æm?k

Adjective

ceramic (not comparable)

1. Made of material produced by the high-temperature firing of inorganic, nonmetallic rocks and minerals.

Derived terms

• preceramic
• vitroceramic

Translations

Noun

ceramic (countable and uncountable, plural ceramics)

1. (uncountable) A hard, brittle, inorganic, nonmetallic material, usually made from a material, such as clay, then firing it at a high tempature.

2. (countable) An object made of this material

Translations

See also

• kaolin, kaoline

Related terms

• ceramics

References

• Krueger, Dennis (December 1982). "Why On Earth Do They Call It Throwing?" Studio Potter Vol. 11, Number 1.[1]

Anagrams

• racemic

Romanian

Etymology

From French céramique

Adjective

ceramic m or n (feminine singular ceramic?, masculine plural ceramici, feminine and neuter plural ceramice)

1. ceramic

Declension

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)

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.
2. (computing) A rectangular graphic.

3. Any of various flat cuboid playing pieces used in certain games, such as dominoes, Scrabble, or mahjong.
4. (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.

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)

1. (transitive) To cover with tiles.

2. (graphical user interface) To arrange in a regular pattern, with adjoining edges (applied to tile-like objects, graphics, windows in a computer interface).
3. (computing theory) To optimize (a loop in program code) by means of the tiling technique.
4. (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)

1. 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)

1. (nautical, literary) board, plank (of boat)
2. (nautical)
   1. sheets
   2. 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.