tile

Meanings

Plural: tiles

Noun

a flat thin rectangular slab (as of fired clay or rubber or linoleum) used to cover surfaces
a thin flat slab of fired clay used for roofing
game equipment consisting of a flat thin piece marked with characters and used in board games like Mah-Jong, Scrabble, etc.
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.
A rectangular graphic.
Any of various flat cuboid playing pieces used in certain games, such as dominoes, Scrabble, or mahjong.
A stiff hat.
A Lego piece that is 1/3 the height of a brick, and is smooth without studs on top.

Verb

cover with tiles
- "tile the wall and the floor of the bathroom"
To cover with tiles.
To arrange in a regular pattern, with adjoining edges (applied to tile-like objects, graphics, windows in a computer interface).
To optimize (a loop in program code) by means of the tiling technique.
To seal a lodge against intrusions from unauthorised people.
To protect from the intrusion of the uninitiated.

Origin / Etymology

From Middle English tile, tyle, tigel, tiȝel, teȝele, from Old English tieġle, tiġle, tiġele (“tile; brick”), from Proto-West Germanic *tigulā, from Proto-Germanic *tigulǭ (“tile”), from Latin tēgula. Doublet of tegula.
Cognates
Cognate with Saterland Frisian Tichel (“tile”), West Frisian teil, tegel, tichel (“tile”), Dutch tichel, tegel (“tile”), German Ziegel (“brick; tile”), Danish tegl (“brick”), Swedish tegel (“brick; tile”), Icelandic tigl (“tile; brick”).

Synonyms

roofing tile

Scrabble Score: 4

tile is a valid Scrabble (US) TWL word
tile is a valid Scrabble Word in Merriam-Webster MW Dictionary
tile is a valid Scrabble Word in International Collins CSW Dictionary

Words With Friends Score: 5

tile is a valid Words With Friends word