Dictionary Entry
tile
tile is a 4-letter English word with 13 senses as transitive verb, noun, and verb in the JumbleFix dictionary. One common meaning is: To protect from the intrusion of the uninitiated; as, to tile a Masonic lodge. Face value is 4 in Scrabble and 5 in Words With Friends. Use the entries below when you need a playable sense, a nearby word, or another arrangement of the same letters.
4 letters · Scrabble 4 · Words With Friends 5 · 13 senses
Definitions
- 1transitive verb
To protect from the intrusion of the uninitiated; as, to tile a Masonic lodge.
- 2noun
A plate, or thin piece, of baked clay, used for covering the roofs of buildings, for floors, for drains, and often for ornamental mantel works.
- 3noun
A small slab of marble or other material used for flooring.
- 4noun
A plate of metal used for roofing.
- 5noun
A small, flat piece of dried earth or earthenware, used to cover vessels in which metals are fused.
- 6noun
A draintile.
- 7noun
A stiff hat.
- 8transitive verb
To cover with tiles; as, to tile a house.
- 9transitive verb
Fig.: To cover, as if with tiles.
- 10noun
a flat thin rectangular slab (as of fired clay or rubber or linoleum) used to cover surfaces
- 11noun
game equipment consisting of a flat thin piece marked with characters and used in board games like Mah-Jong, Scrabble, etc.
- 12noun
a thin flat slab of fired clay used for roofing
- 13verb
cover with tiles
"tile the wall and the floor of the bathroom"
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