tile

/tail/

Thân thiện

The player places a wooden tile on the board.

Definition

1. Noun:

   • A flat, thin piece used in games: A small, flat piece, often square, marked with characters or symbols and used as a playing piece in board games like Mahjong or Scrabble.
   • A thin slab for roofing: A thin, flat piece of fired clay, concrete, or other material used in overlapping rows to cover roofs.
   • A thin slab for covering surfaces: A flat, usually square or rectangular piece of fired clay, stone, ceramic, vinyl, or other material used to cover floors, walls, or other surfaces.

2. Verb:

   • To cover with tiles: To install tiles on a surface, such as a floor, wall, or roof.

Usage Examples

• Noun:

  • I need one more tile to complete my word in Scrabble.
  • The old house has beautiful red clay roof tiles.
  • We chose white ceramic tiles for the kitchen floor.

• Verb:

  • They plan to tile the entire bathroom.
  • The contractor will tile the kitchen backsplash next week.

Advanced Usage

• "To be (out) on the tiles" (idiom, informal): To be out enjoying oneself, especially at night, often involving drinking and revelry.

  • He was out on the tiles until 4 a.m. last night.

• "To have a tile loose" (idiom, informal, dated): To be slightly crazy or eccentric.

  • Some people think he has a tile loose because of his strange ideas.

Variants and Related Words

• Tiler (n): A person whose job is to lay tiles.

  • We hired a professional tiler for the job.

• Tiling (n): The process or work of laying tiles; also, an area or surface covered with tiles.

  • The bathroom tiling is almost complete.

Synonyms

• Noun (for flooring/wall): Paver, slab.
• Verb: Cover, pave, surface.

Related Phrasal Verbs

(This word does not commonly form phrasal verbs.)

Related Idioms

• "On the tiles": See "Advanced Usage" above.
• "To have a tile loose": See "Advanced Usage" above.

Học thuật

Noun

1. game equipment consisting of a flat thin piece marked with characters and used in board games like Mah-Jong, Scrabble, etc.
2. a thin flat slab of fired clay used for roofing
3. a flat thin rectangular slab (as of fired clay or rubber or linoleum) used to cover surfaces

Verb

1. cover with tiles
   • tile the wall and the floor of the bathroom

Từ đồng nghĩa

• roofing tile