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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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pantile
English
Etymology
From pan +? tile.
Pronunciation
- (UK) IPA(key): /?pant??l/
Noun
pantile (plural pantiles)
- 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.
- 1977, Bruce Chatwin, In Patagonia, Penguin Classics 2003, p. 8:
- (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, […]
- 1830, Charles Cochrane, The Journal of a Tour Made by Señor Juan de Vega (page 243)
Derived terms
- pantile shop
Verb
pantile (third-person singular simple present pantiles, present participle pantiling, simple past and past participle pantiled)
- (transitive) To tile with pantiles.
References
- 1873, John Camden Hotten, The Slang Dictionary
Anagrams
- Platine, pentail, pilenta, pit lane, pitlane
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