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Tile   /taɪl/   Listen
Tile

noun
1.
A flat thin rectangular slab (as of fired clay or rubber or linoleum) used to cover surfaces.
2.
A thin flat slab of fired clay used for roofing.  Synonym: roofing tile.
3.
Game equipment consisting of a flat thin piece marked with characters and used in board games like Mah-Jong, Scrabble, etc..
verb
(past & past part. tiled; pres. part. tiling)
1.
Cover with tiles.



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"Tile" Quotes from Famous Books



... hoard, and caring little for any intrusive wind, if it did not blow away his treasure. I fancied I could see him running over the tale of his coin by a feeble rushlight—squat, perhaps, on the dirty tile-floor—then locking his box, and placing it carefully under the pillow of his straw pallet, then tip-toeing to the door to examine again the fastening, then carefully extinguishing the taper, and after, dropping into an anxious, ...
— Graham's Magazine Vol XXXII. No. 3. March 1848 • Various
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... The tiles all through the Wolds are of the curved pattern, and though cheerful in the brilliance of their colour, and unspeakably preferable to thin blue slates, they do not seem to weather or gather moss and rich colouring in the same manner as the usual flat tile ...
— Yorkshire Painted And Described • Gordon Home
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... and that all that day he had been blowing backward and forward over it without being able to move one single tile. "Oh, do tell me where it is," cried the young man." "It is a long way off," replied the Wind, "on the other side of the Red Sea." But our traveler was not discouraged-he had already ...
— The Junior Classics, Volume 1 • Willam Patten
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... beard was th' equal grace Both of his wisdom and his face; In cut and die so like a tile, A sudden view it would beguile; The upper part thereof was whey; The nether, orange mix'd with grey. 153 BUTLER: Hudibras, Pt. i., Canto i., ...
— Handy Dictionary of Poetical Quotations • Various
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... sons o' the Widow, Hands off o' the goods in 'er shop, For the Kings must come down an' the Emperors frown When the Widow at Windsor says "Stop"! (Poor beggars! — we're sent to say "Stop"!) Then 'ere's to the Lodge o' the Widow, From the Pole to the Tropics it runs — To the Lodge that we tile with the rank an' the file, An' open in form with the guns. (Poor beggars! — ...
— Verses 1889-1896 • Rudyard Kipling
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