tile
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4.2
- noun
- /taɪl/
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ficha
- A player also forfeits his or her turn if a tile cannot be played.
- letter tile
- blank tile
- draw a tile
There's no overlap between tiles, and tiles don't go beyond the boundaries of the board.
- There's no overlap between tiles, and tiles don't go beyond the boundaries of the board.
- It's a little app called Chromatic, and what it is, it's basically a tile puzzle game.
- So the first business that we started was in the tiny obscure market of teaching people how to make Scrabble tile jewelry.
Examples
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Upon winning a hand, he slowly and suspensefully turned over his tiles for all to witness.
Academic text (2007) -
The next bag had just two tiles, a red and a pink.
Fiction book (1998) -
The yellow tile here that says "Six" goes with the cube.
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Players counted one point for each tile in a series of three or more.
Academic text (1990) -
I chose an orange tile.
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The blue tile here that says "Zero" corresponds with the green cube.
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Inside the velvet bags were tiles with letters or numbers on them, a lot like Scrabble pieces.
Fiction book (1998) -
As more letter-sound associations are mastered, letter tiles may replace blank tiles.
Academic text (2015) -
In Scrabble, you can use a blank tile to represent any letter.
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Players must strategically place their tiles to score the highest points in the game.
Synonyms
5
1.4
A small flat tile with dots used to play a game of matching numbers
Compounds
- Specialized
1
3.4
A thin flat or curved piece used to cover the top of a house and keep out rain
How Big
Surface Forms
Etymology
Tile for a game piece comes from the same old word tegula, meaning a small flat piece. Think of game tiles as little flat squares or rectangles, which is why we call the pieces in Scrabble or Mah-Jong 'tiles'.