different between tile vs tilde

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

(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)

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.

English

Etymology

Borrowed from Spanish tilde, from Latin titulus (“superscript”) or from tildar. Doublet of title, tittle, and titulus.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?t?ld?/, /?t?ldi/
• Rhymes: -?ld?

Noun

tilde (plural tildes)

1. The grapheme of character ~.
   1. A diacritical mark (˜) placed above a letter to modify its pronunciation, such as by palatalization in Spanish words or nasalization in Portuguese words.
   2. A punctuation mark that indicates range (from a number to another number).
   3. May be used to represent approximation (mathematics).
2. (logic) The character used to represent negation, usually ~ or ¬.

Usage notes

Commonly used for these letters: ã and õ (Portuguese), and ñ (Spanish); Vietnamese, Guaraní etc. use it for several other letters.

Synonyms

• squiggle, twiddle

Derived terms

• overtilde
• undertilde
• zilde

Translations

See also

• ASCII
• hyphen
• swung dash – Specific type of tilde, positioned in middle height of line.

Anagrams

• lited, tiled

Asturian

Noun

tilde f (plural tildes)

1. (orthography) accent

Synonyms

• acentu

Dutch

Pronunciation

Verb

tilde

1. singular past indicative and subjunctive of tillen

Anagrams

• leidt

Finnish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?tilde/, [?t?ilde?]
• Rhymes: -ilde
• Syllabification: til?de

Noun

tilde

1. tilde

Declension

Synonyms

• aaltoviiva

French

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /tild/

Noun

tilde m (plural tildes)

1. tilde

Further reading

• “tilde” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

Anagrams

• délit, ledit

Interlingua

Noun

tilde

1. tilde

Italian

Noun

tilde m or f (plural tildi)

1. tilde (all senses)
2. (typography) tilde, squiggle

Spanish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?tilde/, [?t?il?.d?e]

Etymology 1

From tildar or from Latin titulus, possibly through an Old Catalan or Old Provençal intermediate (accounting for the final -e instead of -o).

Noun

tilde m or f (plural tildes) (usually feminine)

1. accent mark, i.e. acute accent

   Synonym: acento ortográfico

2. tilde

   Synonym: virgulilla

3. criticism, censure

Usage notes

• In Spanish, the term tilde refers to a diacritic in general (including the tilde on top of ñ) but it is primarily used to designate the acute accent, as in á. The term virgulilla is used to specifically refer to the tilde on top of ñ.

Derived terms

• atildar

See also

• acento diacrítico, when used to distinguish “el” from “él”, for instance

Etymology 2

Verb

tilde

1. Formal second-person singular (usted) imperative form of tildar.
2. First-person singular (yo) present subjunctive form of tildar.
3. Formal second-person singular (usted) present subjunctive form of tildar.
4. Third-person singular (él, ella, also used with usted^?) present subjunctive form of tildar.

References

Further reading

• “tilde” in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014.

Turkish

Etymology

Borrowed from Spanish tilde.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [tilde]

Noun

tilde (definite accusative tildeyi, plural tildeler)

1. tilde

Declension