tile

English

tiles

Pronunciation

• (RP) IPA^(кључ): /taɪl/

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• (GA) IPA^(кључ): /ˈtaɪ.əl/
• Риме: -aɪl

Etymology 1

From Средњи Енглески tile, tyle, tigel, tiȝel, teȝele, from , tiġle, tiġele (“tile; brick”), from , from , from Латински tēgula. Дублети of tegula.

Cognates

Cognate with Saterland Frisian Tichel (“tile”), West Frisian teil, tegel, tichel (“tile”), Холандски tichel, tegel (“tile”), Немачки Ziegel (“brick; tile”), Дански tegl (“brick”), Шведски tegel (“brick; tile”), Icelandic tigl (“tile; brick”).

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.
   • Шаблон:RQ:Allingham China Governess
2. (computing) A rectangular graphic.

   Each tile within the map consists of 256 × 256 pixels.

   Sprites and tiles that are hidden in the prototype ROM file can be recovered.

3. Any of various flat cuboid playing pieces used in certain games, such as dominoes, Scrabble, or mahjong.
   • 2005, William T. Vollmann, “They Came Out Like Ants!”, in Dave Eggers, editor, The Best American Nonrequired Reading 2005‎^[1] (Literature), Houghton Mifflin Company, →ISBN, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 298:

     One hot summer day in the Chinese city of Nan-ning, I wandered through a park of lotus leaves and exotic flowers to a pagoda where ancient women sat, drowsily, happily playing mahjongg amidst the scent of flowers, and that excellent sound of clicking tiles enchanted me; I was far from home, but that long slow summer afternoon with the mah-jongg sounds brought me back to my own continent and specifically to Mexicali, whose summer tranquillity never ends.

4. (dated, informal) A stiff 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.

   • Шаблон:RQ:Doyle Lost World

Derived terms

• Dutch tile
• encaustic tile
• field tile
• floating wood tile
• floor tile
• girih tile
• glazed tile
• out on the tiles
• paving tile
• pill tile
• quarry tile
• reflet tile
• rep-tile
• rest tile
• roof tile
• subway tile
• tilefish
• tile-matching game
• tile ore
• tile red
• tile saw
• tile tracking
• tilework
• Truchet tile
• vinyl composition tile
• Wang tile
• weeping tile

 

Descendants

• → Bengali: টালি (ṭali)
• → Јапански: タイル (tairu)
• → Корејски: 타일 (tail)
• → Непали: टाइल (ṭāila)
• → Odia: ଟାଇଲ୍ (ṭail)
• → Велшки: teils

Translations

sheet of ceramic or fired clay to cover surfaces

• Albanian: tjegull (sq), pllakë (sq)
• Arabic: قِرْمِيدَة f (qirmīda), قِرْمِيد (qirmīd) (collective); بَلَاط m (balāṭ)
• Armenian: կղմինդր (hy) (kłmindr), հախճասալ (hy) (haxčasal)
• Avar: щегӏ (ššeʻ)
• Azerbaijani: kaşı
• Basque: lauza
• Belarusian: ка́фля f (káflja), плі́тка f (plítka)
• Bengali: টালি (bn) (ṭali)
• Bulgarian: пло́чка (bg) f (plóčka)
• Burmese: အုတ်ကြွပ် (my) (utkrwap)
• Catalan: teula (ca) f, rajola (ca) f
• Chechen: гериг (gerig)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 瓦 (zh) (wǎ), 磚瓦／砖瓦 (zh) (zhuānwǎ)

• Crimean Tatar: kiramet
• Czech: dlaždice f (floor tile), kachle f, obkladačka f (wall tile), taška (cs) f (roof tile)
• Danish: tegl (da) c or n (roof tile), klinke c (floor tile), flise c (wall tile)
• Dhivehi: ތަށިމުށި (tashimushi), އީޓު (īṭu)
• Dutch: tegel (nl) m, vloertegel (nl) f, muurtegel m, pan (nl) f, dakpan (nl) f
• Esperanto: kahelo, tegolo (eo) (roof tile)
• Estonian: молим додајте овај превод ако можете
• Faroese: flís f (floor tile), tigul m (roof tile)
• Finnish: laatta (fi) (any); kaakeli (fi) (glazed)
• French: carreau (de carrelage) m, tuile (fr) f
• Galician: tella (gl) f
• Georgian: კრამიტი (ka) (ḳramiṭi)
• German: Kachel (de) f, Fliese (de) f, Dachziegel (de) m (roof tile)

  Alemannic German: Chachele f

• Greek: πλακίδιο (el) n (plakídio), πλακάκι (el) n (plakáki), κεραμίδι (el) n (keramídi) (roof tile)

  Ancient: κέραμος m (kéramos), κεραμίς f (keramís)

• Hindi: टाइल f (ṭāil)
• Hungarian: cserép (hu), csempe (hu)
• Ingush: гарг (garg)
• Irish: tíl
• Italian: piastrella (it) f, mattonella (it) f (floor and wall tile), tegola (it) f, coppo (it) m (roof tile)
• Japanese: タイル (ja) (tairu), (roof tile) 瓦 (ja) (かわら, kawara)
• Kashubian: plata f, fliza f
• Khmer: ក្បឿង (km) (kbɨəng), ការ៉ូ (kaarou) (glazed)
• Korean: 타일 (ko) (tail), 기와 (ko) (giwa)
• Lao: ກະເບື້ອງ (lo) (ka bư̄ang)
• Latin: tēgula f
• Latvian: flīze f
• Lezgi: сахси (saχsi)
• Lithuanian: plytelė f
• Macedonian: пло́чка f (plóčka) (floor and wall tile), ќера́мида f (ḱerámida) (roof tile)
• Malay: jubin (ms)
• Maori: tāpa, taera
• Nepali: टाइल (ṭāila)
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: (roof) takstein m, tegl (no) n, teglstein (no) m, (elsewhere) flis m or f

  Nynorsk: (roof) takstein m, tegl n, teglstein m, (elsewhere) flis f

• Occitan: teule (oc) m
• Odia: ଟାଇଲ୍ (or) (ṭail)
• Old English: tiġele f
• Ottoman Turkish: كرمید (kiremid) (roof tile)
• Persian: کاشی (fa) (kâši), سفال (fa) (sofâl)
• Polish: kafel (pl) m, kafelek (pl) m, fliza (pl) f, płytka (pl) f
• Portuguese: azulejo (pt) m (glazed tile), ladrilho (pt) m, telha (pt) f (roof tile)
• Romanian: țiglă (ro) f, olan (ro) n, placă (ro) f
• Russian: пли́тка (ru) f (plítka), (glazed tile) ка́фель (ru) m (káfelʹ), (roof tile) черепи́ца (ru) f (čerepíca), плита́ (ru) f (plitá) (larger)
• Scottish Gaelic: leacag f
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: пло̏чица f, ка̑љ m

  Roman: plȍčica (sh) f, kȃlj (sh) m

• Slovak: dlaždica f
• Slovene: ploščica f, plošča (sl) f
• Spanish: (glazed tile) azulejo (es) m, alicatado (es) m, (floor tile) baldosa (es) f, (roof tile) teja (es) f
• Swahili: kigae
• Swedish: taktegel (sv)
• Thai: กระเบื้อง (th)
• Turkish: kiremit (tr), karo (tr)
• Ukrainian: пли́тка f (plýtka)
• Vietnamese: (roof tile) ngói (vi), đá lát, gạch (vi)
• Zhuang: vax

rectangular graphic

• Finnish: tiili (fi)
• Spanish: tesela (es) f
• Vietnamese: mảnh (vi), mảng (vi)

flat cuboid playing piece used in certain games

• Finnish: laatta (fi), nappula (fi)
• Spanish: ficha (es) f
• Vietnamese: quân (vi), (con) bài, quân bài

Verb

tile (third-person singular simple present tiles, present participle tiling, simple past and past participle tiled)

1. (transitive) To cover with tiles.

   The handyman tiled the kitchen.

   White marble tiled the bathroom.

   • 1980, Robert M. Jones, editor, Walls and Ceilings, Time-Life Books, →ISBN, page 38:

     Some professionals begin tiling a wall by setting a full tile in the most visually prominent corner […]

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

to cover with tiles

• Arabic: قَرْمَدَ (qarmada)
• Catalan: enrajolar (ca) (floor), teular (ca) (roof)
• Czech: dlaždit impf, obložit pf
• Danish: beklæde med fliser (wall tiles)
• Dutch: tegelen (nl), betegelen (nl)
• Esperanto: kaheli, tegoli (roof)
• Finnish: laatoittaa (fi)
• French: tuiler (fr)
• Galician: tellar (gl), faiar
• German: fliesen (de), kacheln (de), (roof) decken (de)
• Greek: πλακοστρώνω (el) (plakostróno), στρώνω με πλακάκια (stróno me plakákia)
• Hungarian: csempéz (hu), cserepez (hu), burkol (hu), befed (hu)
• Italian: piastrellare
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: flislegge

• Polish: kafelkować impf, kłaść plytki
• Portuguese: azulejar (pt), ladrilhar (pt), telhar (pt)
• Spanish: alicatar (es), azulejar (es), poner azulejos a, embaldosar (es), tejar (es) (roof), embaldosinar (es) (Colombia)

computing: to arrange in regular pattern

• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 平铺 (píngpū)

• Finnish: tiilittää (fi)
• German: parzellieren (de)

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.

   to tile a Masonic lodge

   tile the door

See also

• Tile Hill

Anagrams

• -lite, IELT, Tiel, lite, teil, tiel ^{(alphagram eilt)}

Bambara

Noun

tìlé

1. sun
2. day, daytime, the heat of the day
3. epoch, era

Derived terms

• tilebɛnnan
• tilebinyanfan
• tilefana
• tilegan
• tilela
• tilema
• tilen
• tilenunɛti
• tilesekuncɛ

 

Irish

Noun

tile m (genitive singular tile, nominative plural tilí)

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

Derived terms

• ráille tile (“poop-rail”)
• tile tosaigh (“fore-sheet”)
• tile deiridh (“stern-sheet”)

Mutation

Irish mutation
Radical	Lenition	Eclipsis
tile	thile	dtile
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.

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.

Pali

Noun

1. локатива једнине of tila (“sesame”)

Spanish

Etymology

Позајмљено од Pipil tlilli.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(кључ): /ˈtile/ [ˈt̪i.le]
• Риме: -ile
• Syllabification: ti‧le

Noun

tile m (plural tiles)

1. (El Salvador, Honduras) soot

   Синоним: hollín

2. (poetic, Honduras) darkness

   Синоним: oscuridad

3. (colloquial, Honduras) hard, complicated

Further reading

• “tile” in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014.
• tile | Diccionario de americanismos | ASALE