different between rounded vs pantile

English

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /??a?nd?d/
• Hyphenation: round?ed

Verb

rounded

1. simple past tense and past participle of round

Adjective

rounded (comparative more rounded, superlative most rounded)

1. Made into a circle or sphere.
2. Complete or balanced.
3. (mathematics) Describing a number that has been changed to its nearest desired value.
4. (botany) Ending in a broad arch.
5. (linguistics, of a vowel etc.) Pronounced with the lips drawn together.

   Antonym: unrounded

Derived terms

Translations

Anagrams

• redound, underdo

English

Etymology

From pan +? tile.

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /?pant??l/

Noun

pantile (plural pantiles)

1. A type of interlocking roof tile with a rounded under and over, giving it an elongated S shape.
   • 1977, Bruce Chatwin, In Patagonia, Penguin Classics 2003, p. 8:

     The houses of the estancias shrank behind screens of poplar and eucalyptus. Some of the houses had pantile roofs, but most were of metal sheet, painted red.

   • 2004, Richard Fortey, The Earth, Folio Society 2011, p. 103:

     All the gneiss roofing slates have vanished, to be replaced by pantiles painting patchworks of all possible orange hues.
2. (obsolete, slang) A hat.
   • 1830, Charles Cochrane, The Journal of a Tour Made by Señor Juan de Vega (page 243)

     "So you are a Quaker, master, are you?" he added, "Well, I thought somehow, by the cut of your pantile, (hat) you was something or other in that way."

   • 1885, Good Words (volume 26, page 107)

     Hats or ordinary caps can be worn over them, and they are much used by the drivers of hack-carriages and horse-cars. Those who cannot afford a fur cap, ear-muff, or pantile, tie a handkerchief over their ears, […]

Derived terms

• pantile shop

Verb

pantile (third-person singular simple present pantiles, present participle pantiling, simple past and past participle pantiled)

1. (transitive) To tile with pantiles.

References

• 1873, John Camden Hotten, The Slang Dictionary

Anagrams

• Platine, pentail, pilenta, pit lane, pitlane