tile

Engleski

tiles

Pronunciation

• MFA^(ključ): /taɪl/

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• Rime: -aɪl

Etimologija 1

Od Middle English tile, tyle, tigel, tiȝel, teȝele, od Old English tieġle, tiġle, tiġele (“tile; brick”), od Proto-West Germanic *tigulā, od Proto-Germanic *tigulǭ (“tile”), od Latinski tēgula. Dubleti of tegula.

Cognates

Cognate with Saterland Frisian Tichel (“tile”), West Frisian teil, tegel, tichel (“tile”), Holandski tichel, tegel (“tile”), Nemački Ziegel (“brick; tile”), Danski tegl (“brick”), Švedski 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.
   • 1963, Margery Allingham, chapter 3, in The China Governess‎^[1]:

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.
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.

   • 1912, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, The Lost World‎^[2]:

Derived terms

• field tile
• glazed tile
• out on the tiles
• roof tile
• tilework

 

Descendants

• → Bengali: টালি (ṭali)
• → Japanski: タイル (tairu)
• → Korejski: 타일 (tail)
• → Nepali: टाइल (ṭāila)
• → Oriya: ଟାଇଲ୍ (ṭail)
• → Welsh: teils

Translations

mostly rectangular shaped 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: щegӏ (ššeʻ)
• Azerbaijani: kaşı
• Basque: lauza
• Belarusian: káflя f (káflja), plі́tka f (plítka)
• Bengali: টালি (bn) (ṭali)
• Bulgarian: plóčka (bg) f (plóčka)
• Burmese: အုတ်ကြွပ် (my) (utkrwap)
• Catalan: teula (ca) f, rajola (ca) f
• Chechen: gerig (gerig)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 瓦 (zh) (wǎ), 磚瓦／砖瓦 (zh), 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)
• Dutch: tegel (nl) m, vloertegel (nl) f, muurtegel m, pan (nl) f, dakpan (nl) f
• Esperanto: kahelo, tegolo (eo) (roof tile)
• Estonian: molim dodajte ovaj prevod ako možete
• Faroese: flís f (floor tile), tigul m (roof tile)
• Finnish: kaakeli (fi), laatta (fi), tiili (fi), koristelaatta (decorative), keraaminen laatta
• French: carreau (de carrelage) m, tuile (fr) f
• Galician: tella (gl) f
• Georgian: კრამიტი (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: garg (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)
• Khmer: ក្បឿង (km) (kbɨəng), ការ៉ូ (kaarou) (glazed)
• (deprecated template usage) {{trans-mid}}
• Korean: 타일 (ko) (tail), 기와 (ko) (giwa)
• Lao: ກະເບື້ອງ (lo) (ka bư̄ang)
• Latin: tēgula f
• Latvian: flīze f
• Lezgi: sahsi (saχsi)
• Lithuanian: molim dodajte ovaj prevod ako možete
• Macedonian: plóčka f (plóčka) (floor and wall tile), ќerámida f (ḱerámida) (roof tile)
• Malay: jubin
• Maori: tāpa, taera
• Nepali: टाइल (ṭāila)
• Norwegian:

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

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

• Occitan: teule (oc) m
• Old English: tiġele f
• Oriya: ଟାଇଲ୍ (or) (ṭail)
• 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: plítka (ru) f (plítka), (glazed tile) káfelь (ru) m (káfelʹ), (roof tile) čerepíca (ru) f (čerepíca), plitá (ru) f (plitá) (larger)
• Scottish Gaelic: leacag f
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: plȍčica f, kȃlj 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
• Swedish: taktegel (sv)
• Thai: กระเบื้อง (th)
• Turkish: kiremit (tr), karo (tr)
• Ukrainian: plítka f (plýtka)
• Vietnamese: (roof tile) ngói (vi), đá lát, gạch (vi)
• Zhuang: vax

rectangular graphic

• Spanish: tesela (es) f
• (deprecated template usage) {{trans-mid}}
• Vietnamese: mảnh (vi), mảng (vi)

flat cuboid playing piece used in certain games

• Spanish: ficha (es) f
• (deprecated template usage) {{trans-mid}}
• Vietnamese: quân (vi), (con) bài, quân bài

Verb

tile

1. (transitive) To cover with tiles.
   • 1980, Robert M. Jones, editor, Walls and Ceilings, Time-Life Books, →ISBN, strana 38:

   The handyman tiled the kitchen.

   White marble tiled the bathroom.

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)
• (deprecated template usage) {{trans-mid}}
• Greek: πλακοστρώνω (el) (plakostróno), στρώνω με πλακάκια (stróno me plakákia)
• Hungarian: csempéz (hu), cserepez, 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

• Finnish: tiilittää (fi)
• (deprecated template usage) {{trans-mid}}
• German: parzellieren (de)

Etymology 2

See tiler (“doorkeeper at a Masonic lodge”).

Alternative forms

• tyle

Verb

tile

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)}

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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

 

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Irish

Noun

tile m (genitive singular tile, nominative plural tilí)

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

Derived terms

• ráille tile (“poop-rail”)
• tile ceathrún (“quarter-deck”)
• tile deiridh (“stern-sheet”)
• tile tosaigh (“fore-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.