tile
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- Regno Unito//taɪl//
- Stati Uniti//ˈtaɪ.əl//
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.
sostantivo
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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.
Sepia Delft tiles surrounded the fireplace, their crudely drawn Biblical scenes in faded cyclamen blending with the pinkish pine, while above them, instead of a mantelshelf, there was an archway high enough to form a balcony with slender balusters and a tapestry-hung wall behind.
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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.
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Any of various flat cuboid playing pieces used in certain games, such as dominoes, Scrabble, or mahjong.
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desuetoA stiff hat.
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.
Thus, when old Doctor Meldrum, with his well-known curly-brimmed opera-hat, appeared upon the platform, there was such a universal query of "Where did you get that tile?" that he hurriedly removed it, and concealed it furtively under his chair.
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A Lego piece that is 1/3 the height of a brick, and is smooth without studs on top.
Etimologia
Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *(s)teg-der. Proto-Indo-European *-tḗr Proto-Indo-European *-trom Proto-Indo-European *-tlom, *-dʰlom Latin -ula Latin tēgulabor. Proto-Germanic *tigulǭ Proto-West Germanic *tigulā Old English tiġele Middle English tile English tile From Middle English tile, tyl, tigel, tiȝel, teȝele, from Old English tiġele, tieġle, tiġle (“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 (“brick, tile”), Asturian teya (“tile”), Catalan teula (“tile”), French tuile (“tile”), Galician telha, tella (“roof tile”), Italian tegola (“roof tile”), Mirandese teilha (“roof tile”), Portuguese telha (“roof tile”), Spanish teja (“roof tile”), Belarusian цэ́гла (céhla, “brick”), Czech cihla (“brick”), Polish cegła (“brick”), Serbo-Croatian cígla (“brick”), Ukrainian це́гла (céhla, “brick”), Finnish tiili (“brick, tile”).
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To cover with tiles.
The handyman tiled the kitchen.
White marble tiled the bathroom.
Some professionals begin tiling a wall by setting a full tile in the most visually prominent corner […]
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To arrange in a regular pattern, with adjoining edges (applied to tile-like objects, graphics, windows in a computer interface).
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To optimize (a loop in program code) by means of the tiling technique.
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To seal a lodge against intrusions from unauthorised people.
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To protect from the intrusion of the uninitiated.
to tile a Masonic lodge
tile the door
Etimologia
See tiler (“doorkeeper at a Masonic lodge”).
Forme
- plurale
- tiles
- passato
- tiled
- participio passato
- tiled
- participio presente
- tiling
- 3ª persona singolare
- tiles
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