tile
English
uredi
Pronunciation
urediEtymology 1
urediFrom Srednji Engleski tile, tyle, tigel, tiȝel, teȝele, from Stari Engleski tieġle, tiġle, tiġele (“tile; brick”), from Pra-Zapadno Germanski *tigulā, from Pra-Germanski *tigulǭ (“tile”), from Latinski tēgula. Dubleti of tegula.
Cognates
Noun
ureditile (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.
- Each tile within the map consists of 256 × 256 pixels.
- Sprites and tiles that are hidden in the prototype ROM file can be recovered.
- 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.
- (dated, informal) A stiff hat.
- 1865, Charles Dickens, chapter III, in Doctor Marigold's Prescriptions:
- 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.
- Šablon:RQ:Doyle Lost World
Derived terms
uredi- 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
uredi- → Bengali: টালি (ṭali)
- → Japanski: タイル (tairu)
- → Korejski: 타일 (tail)
- → Nepali: टाइल (ṭāila)
- → Odia: ଟାଇଲ୍ (ṭail)
- → Velški: teils
Translations
uredisheet of ceramic or fired clay to cover surfaces
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flat cuboid playing piece used in certain games
Verb
ureditile (third-person singular simple present tiles, present participle tiling, simple past and past participle tiled)
- (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 […]
- (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
urediTranslations
uredito cover with tiles
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computing: to arrange in regular pattern
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Etymology 2
urediSee tiler (“doorkeeper at a Masonic lodge”).
Alternative forms
urediVerb
ureditile (third-person singular simple present tiles, present participle tiling, simple past and past participle tiled)
- To protect from the intrusion of the uninitiated.
- to tile a Masonic lodge
- tile the door
See also
urediAnagrams
urediBambara
urediNoun
ureditìlé
Derived terms
urediIrish
urediEtymology
urediNoun
ureditile m (genitive singular tile, nominative plural tilí)
Declension
urediDerived terms
uredi- ráille tile (“poop-rail”)
- tile tosaigh (“fore-sheet”)
- tile deiridh (“stern-sheet”)
Mutation
uredi| 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
uredi- "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
urediAlternative forms
urediAlternative scripts
Noun
urediSpanish
urediEtymology
urediPozajmljeno od Pipil tlilli.
Pronunciation
urediNoun
ureditile m (plural tiles)
- (El Salvador, Honduras) soot
- Sinonim: hollín
- (poetic, Honduras) darkness
- Sinonim: oscuridad
- (colloquial, Honduras) hard, complicated
Further reading
uredi- “tile” in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014.
- tile | Diccionario de americanismos | ASALE