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# tile

noun, verb (tile, tiles, tiled, tiling)

«tile» in the English dictionary: everyday and in Jewish tradition — its meanings, how the lessons use it, and examples, each with its tree on Mova.

## Everyday

1. A tile is a flat, usually square piece of baked clay, stone or plastic used to cover floors, walls or roofs. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/T/tile/#m1)
2. A tile is a small flat piece used in a game, like in Scrabble or dominoes. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/T/tile/#m2)
3. To tile a floor or wall is to cover it with tiles. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/T/tile/#m3)

### In the lessons

Maths: a thing counted to cover an area; tiles per row, rows of tiles; tiling patterns (tessellation) where shapes fit with no gaps; area = rows × tiles per row. Everyday: bathroom tiles, roof tiles, kitchen floor tiles.

### Examples

- The floor needs 8 rows of 10 tiles. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/T/tile/#x1)
- Each tile is 1 foot square. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/T/tile/#x2)
- A box holds 12 tiles. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/T/tile/#x3)
- How many tiles cover a 4 by 5 meter wall? [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/T/tile/#x4)
- Squares and hexagons tile a floor with no gaps. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/T/tile/#x5)
- A roof tile fell in the storm. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/T/tile/#x6)
- Each Scrabble tile has a letter and a number. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/T/tile/#x7)
- The bathroom has blue and white tiles. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/T/tile/#x8)
- AN ASS climbed up to the roof of a building, and frisking about there, broke in the tiling. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/T/tile/#x9)

### Note

Countable noun; regular verb. Covering a floor is an area problem: rows × tiles per row. Trap: tiles are often sold in whole boxes, so round up. Trap: change units first if tile size and room size use different units.

## In Jewish tradition

A clay brick or tablet on which Ezekiel drew Jerusalem.

**Interpretation.** Ezekiel's drawing of the city under siege is read as a prophet's act of showing the coming fall of Jerusalem.

### Examples

- Thou also, son of man, take thee a tile, and lay it before thee, and trace upon it a city, even Jerusalem; (Prophets EZK.4.1, JPS 1917) [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/T/tile/#x1)

### Note

Countable noun; regular verb. Covering a floor is an area problem: rows × tiles per row. Trap: tiles are often sold in whole boxes, so round up. Trap: change units first if tile size and room size use different units.

## On Mova

- [Trees and pragmatics of «tile» in the school dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/T/tile/): every meaning and example parsed by Mova, with its dependency tree and frames.
- [«tile» in the school dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/school/w/tile.html) on Mova free.
- [Trees and pragmatics of «tile» in the Judaism dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/T/tile/): every meaning and example parsed by Mova, with its dependency tree and frames.
- [«tile» in the Judaism dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/judaism/w/tile.html) on Mova free.