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# tile

«tile» in Mova's school dictionary: **a flat, usually square piece of baked clay, stone or…** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 4 sentences of Mova's corpora that use it.

### part of speech

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

### meaning for a pupil

1) A tile is a flat, usually square piece of baked clay, stone or plastic used to cover floors, walls or roofs. [tree →](https://md.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://md.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://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/T/tile/#m3)

### sense 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://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/T/tile/#x1)
- Each tile is 1 foot square. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/T/tile/#x2)
- A box holds 12 tiles. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/T/tile/#x3)
- How many tiles cover a 4 by 5 meter wall? [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/T/tile/#x4)
- Squares and hexagons tile a floor with no gaps. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/T/tile/#x5)
- A roof tile fell in the storm. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/T/tile/#x6)
- Each Scrabble tile has a letter and a number. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/T/tile/#x7)
- The bathroom has blue and white tiles. [tree →](https://md.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://md.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 the corpora

- [Swifts nest under roof tiles and come back to the same hole after wintering in Africa.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/369-city-birds-sparrows-starlings-swifts-crows-and-peregrines-on-tall-buildings/11/)
- [Walk, never run, by a pool, because wet floors are slippery and falls onto tiles cause head injuries.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/233-sea-and-pools/14/)
- [Walk, never run, around a pool, because the wet floor is slippery and falls onto hard tiles cause head injuries.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/300-campfires-rivers-pools-and-rain/19/)
- [Walk, never run, around a pool, because wet tiles are slippery and falls cause head injuries.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/325-icy-playgrounds-hiking-edges-quarries-burns-rivers-bridges-and-pools/14/)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «tile» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/T/tile/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.