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tiling

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Covering a surface with tiles on floors or walls

noun
/ˈtaɪlɪŋ/

: alicatado

I did the tiling in the bathroom to update its look.
floor tiling
pattern tiling

So we actually have dug, we dug down, put, put in some tiling.

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Examples

I did the tiling in the bathroom.

The Break-Up (2006)
Their architectural art, especially tiling and mosaics, is also extremely beautiful and complex.

Blog text (7)
So in this room here, the tiling has started.
And his father owned a small tiling business in suburban Birmingham.

Velvet Goldmine (1998)
Removed the boomerang in 2004 to reveal pink and black plastic tiling on the walls.

Blog text (16)
RIP those out, scrape the tiling, leave the tiling there but give it a nice scrape of all the debris and nasty reglaze it.
I can tell that Xiao Liu wants to know what a Porta Potti is, but she looks down at the floor tiling instead, suppressing the question for later.

Fiction book (2000)
After weeks of preparation, we finally started the tiling for the new kitchen floor.
The tiling around the fireplace adds a beautiful touch to the living room.

Synonyms

tilework

vstiling

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The craft of making decorative surfaces using tiles

focuses on simply covering a surface rather than creating decorative designs

Surface Forms

tiling singular

tilings plural

Morphology

tiling = tile (transparent) = tile + ing

A straightforward deverbal noun formed from the verb 'tile' with the gerund/nominalizing suffix '-ing', meaning the action or process of tiling.

Etymology

Tiling comes from the Latin word tegula, which means 'roof tile', and from tegere, which means 'to cover'. So tiling is literally the act of 'covering' a floor or wall with tiles, which explains its use for the process of fitting tiles in a room.