Tile

Noun

 * 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, etc.
 * 2)  A rectangular graphic.
 * Each tile within Google Maps consists of 256 &times; 256 pixels.
 * Sprites and tiles that are hidden in the prototype ROM file can be recovered.
 * 1) Any of various types of cuboid playing piece used in certain games, such as in dominoes, Scrabble, mahjong, or Rummikub.

Derived terms

 * glazed tile
 * out on the tiles
 * tilework

Related terms

 * tiler

Verb

 * 1) To cover with tiles.
 * 2) To arrange in a regular pattern, with adjoining edges (applied to tile-like objects, graphics, windows in a computer interface).

Related terms

 * tiler

Thesaurus
Tarmac, Tarvia, adobe, ashlar, asphalt, biscuit, bisque, bitumen, bituminous macadam, blacktop, board, bowl, brick, bricks and mortar, cement, ceramic ware, ceramics, china, clapboard, clinker, cobble, cobblestone, concrete, covering materials, crock, crockery, curb, curbing, curbstone, edgestone, enamelware, face, ferroconcrete, firebrick, flag, flagging, flagstone, flooring, glass, glaze, gravel, jug, kerb, kerbstone, lath, lath and plaster, macadam, masonry, mortar, paper, pavement, pavestone, paving, paving material, paving stone, plank, plasters, porcelain, pot, pottery, prestressed concrete, refractory, revet, road metal, roofage, roofing, shake, sheathe, shingle, siding, slate, stone, tarmacadam, thatch, tiling, urn, vase, veneer, wall in, wall up, walling, wallpaper, washboard, weatherboard

Etymology
tigele:

Noun

 * Arabic: قرميدة, قرميد
 * Armenian:, հախճասալ
 * Chinese:
 * Mandarin:, ,
 * Czech: (floor tile),,  (wall tile),  (roof tile)
 * Danish: tegl
 * Dutch: tegel, vloertegel , muurtegel , pan , dakpan
 * Esperanto: kahelo
 * Finnish: keraaminen laatta, koristelaatta, kaakeli, tiili, laatta
 * French: (de carrelage),
 * German:, ,
 * Greek: πλακίδιο, πλακάκι
 * Hungarian:


 * Italian:,  , coppo
 * Japanese: タイル,
 * Latvian: flīze
 * Macedonian: плочка,  ќерамида
 * Portuguese: azulejo (glazed tile), ladrilho, telha  (roof tile)
 * Romanian: țiglă, olan
 * Russian: плитка, кафель,
 * Scottish Gaelic:
 * Serbian: pločica, kalj
 * Spanish:, alicatado,  ,

Verb

 * Dutch: tegelen, betegelen
 * Finnish: laatoittaa, kaakeloida, kattaa
 * German: kacheln (1), fliesen (1), decken (1 roof)
 * Greek: πλακοστρώνω, στρώνω με πλακάκια


 * Italian:
 * Portuguese: azulejar, ladrilhar, telhar
 * Spanish: alicatar o azulejar (poner azulejos a), embaldosar; (tejado) tejar.

Anagrams

 * lite