tile

A flat piece of hard material used to cover a floor, wall, or roof.

• One tile on the floor is broken.
• They replaced the old roof tiles.
• We chose blue tiles for the bathroom walls.

Common phrases: floor tile, roof tile, ceramic tile, wall tile

A rectangular image used as one part of a larger picture, map, or screen.

• Each tile shows part of the map.
• The game loads new tiles as you move.
• This tile is missing from the image grid.

Common phrases: map tile, image tile, tile size

To cover a floor, wall, or other surface with flat pieces of material such as clay or stone.

• We plan to tile the kitchen floor.
• She tiled the bathroom walls herself.
• The builder will tile the shower tomorrow.

How to use it: tile something with something (They tiled the wall with small blue squares.)

Common phrases: tile a floor, tile a bathroom, tile with something

To keep people who are not members from entering a Freemasons’ meeting.

• His duty was to tile the lodge.
• They tiled the meeting before the ceremony began.
• A member was appointed to tile the lodge that evening.

Similar words: guard

Common phrases: tile a lodge, tile the meeting