tile

Meanings

1. 1
   noun

   A thin, flat, usually square piece of baked clay, stone, or similar material used to cover floors, walls, or roofs.

   They chose blue tiles for the bathroom wall.

2. 2
   verb

   To cover a surface with tiles.

   The builder tiled the kitchen floor in a single afternoon.

3. 3
   noun

   A small flat playing piece used in games such as Scrabble, dominoes, or mahjong.

   He drew seven new tiles from the bag.

From Middle English tile, tyle, tigel, tiȝel, teȝele, from Old English tieġle, tiġle, tiġele (“tile, brick”), from Proto-West Germanic *tigulā (“tile, brick”), from Proto-Germanic *tigulǭ (“tile, brick”), from Latin tēgula, from Proto-Indo-European *(s)teg- (“to cover”). Doublet of tegula. Cognates Cognate with Saterland Frisian Tichel (“tile”), Dutch tichel (“brick”), tegel (“tile”), German Ziegel (“brick, roof tile”), Luxembourgish Zill (“brick, tile”), Danish tegl (“brick”), Faroese tigul (“tile”), Icelandic tigl (“brick, tile”), Norwegian Nynorsk tegl (“brick, roof tile”), Swedish tegel (“…

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