tile
verb/taɪl/
/taɪl/
Verb Forms
| present simple I / you / we / they tile | /taɪl/ /taɪl/ |
| he / she / it tiles | /taɪlz/ /taɪlz/ |
| past simple tiled | /taɪld/ /taɪld/ |
| past participle tiled | /taɪld/ /taɪld/ |
| -ing form tiling | /ˈtaɪlɪŋ/ /ˈtaɪlɪŋ/ |
- tile something to cover a surface with tiles
- a tiled bathroom
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- tile something (computing) to arrange several windows on a computer screen so that they fill the screen but do not cover each other
Word OriginOld English tigele, from Latin tegula, from an Indo-European root meaning ‘cover’.
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