tilenoun [ C ]
uk/taɪl/us/taɪl/a thin, usually square or rectangular piece of baked clay, plastic, etc. used for covering roofs, floors, walls, etc.:
roof tiles
floor tiles
ceramic tiles
carpet tiles
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Building materials
- adobe
- airbrick
- asbestos
- asphalt
- bitumen
- boarding
- flagstone
- flitch
- floorboard
- flooring
- hard core
- lacquer
- limestone
- putty
- razor wire
- reinforced concrete
- roofing
- rubble
- shingle
- siding
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Parts of buildings: roofs & parts of roofs
Idiom(s)
be/go out on the tiles
tileverb [ T ]
uk/taɪl/us/taɪl/to cover a wall or floor with tiles:
We're going to tile the bathroom.
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Covering and adding layers
- asphalt
- bestrew
- binder
- blanket
- blindfold
- carpet
- coat
- fall over sth/sb
- film
- film over
- fur
- gild
- gum sth up
- inlay
- pad
- proof
- resurface
- seal
- swathe
- whitewash
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