Skip to main content
Glite Dictionary
🟦 A flat piece 📱 A screen icon 🎲 A game piece 🟦 To cover with tiles
to tile

to tile

3 3.0
To cover a surface with flat hard pieces of material
  • verb
  • /taɪl/
: colocar baldosas
  • So they stripped them down and then we laid tile and and and grout in apartments in the summer in Florida.
  • tile the floor
  • tile the wall
  • tile the roof

And you know what, I'm not tiling the whole floor.

Autoplay Next

Examples

  • Besides, Brain, how are we going to close the hole and tile it?

    Small Time Crooks (2000)

  • - I should tile my patio.

    I Hate Valentine's Day (2009)

  • - We tile it and we get out.

    Small Time Crooks (2000)

  • We decided to tile the whole room with these grey brick tiles.

  • We decided to tile the whole room with these grey brick tiles.

  • You can't tile this from the other side.

  • I should tile my patio.

Synonyms

to tessellate
vsto tile
1 8.7

To cover a surface with repeated shapes that fit without gaps or overlaps

focus on using separate pieces for decorative finishing rather than exact gapless fit

Compounds

tile roof
4 3.2

A roof covered with rows of clay tiles that overlap

roofing tile
  • Specialized
1 3.4

A thin flat or curved piece used to cover the top of a house and keep out rain

ridge tile
  • UK
1 7.5

A shaped piece of material that covers the top ridge of a roof to keep out rain

tile cutter
1 3.4

A tool for cutting floor or wall tiles to the sizes you need

fishscale tile
7.5

A tile with overlapping curved shapes like fish scales for decorating walls

hip tile
  • Specialized
7.9

A roof piece that covers the outside sloping edge where two sides meet

hipped tile
  • Specialized
7.8

A tile that covers the roof corner where two sloping sides meet

How Tiled

tiled
15 2.3
to tile
3 3.0

Surface Forms

tile infinitive
tiled past
tiled past participle
tiling present participle
tiles third person singular

Etymology

Tile as a verb comes from the noun tile and the old Latin tegula 'roof tile', so to tile means to 'cover' a surface with those flat pieces. That is why we say you 'tile' a floor or wall when you put tiles down.