Definitions for tiles

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tiles tile

Spelling: [tahyl]

IPA: /taɪl/

Tiles is a 5 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 4 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 5 points.

You can make 78 anagrams from letters in tiles (eilst).

Definitions for tiles

noun

1. a thin slab or bent piece of baked clay, sometimes painted or glazed, used for various purposes, as to form one of the units of a roof covering, floor, or revetment.
2. any of various similar slabs or pieces, as of linoleum, stone, rubber, or metal.
3. tiles collectively.
4. a pottery tube or pipe used for draining land.
5. Also called hollow tile. any of various hollow or cellular units of burnt clay or other materials, as gypsum or cinder concrete, for building walls, partitions, floors, and roofs, or for fireproofing steelwork or the like.
6. Informal. a stiff hat or high silk hat.

verb (used with object)

1. to cover with or as with tiles.

Origin of tiles

before 900; Middle English; Old English tīgele (cognate with German Ziegel) Latin tēgula

Examples for tiles

There are eight or ten tile factories in Puebla, and one glass manufactory.

She glided over the tile floor like a gazelle and had a face that Amedeo Modigliani would have died for.

tile work in the bathrooms, furniture, and artwork on the walls all flowed together and carried his creative touch.

As I reach the berm of sand, tile and stucco that marked a kind of front line, bodies are being piled on carts in the street.

And the said frame, stage, and staircases to be covered with tile.

I was thinking that accidents happen daily, that a foot may slip, a tile may fall.

He was perfectly straightforward about it—as straightforward as a tile falling on your head.

Revered and dutiful, he fought (and was injured) in World War II, and succeeded to the tile in 1953.

He sprang on the tile floor, saying to himself that he would be warm at night.

Mayo does advise that pregnant women avoid swordfish, king mackerel, shark, and tile fish.