Tile vs Tuile - What's the difference?
tile | tuile |
A regularly-shaped slab of clay or other material, affixed to cover or decorate a surface, as in a roof-tile, glazed tile, stove tile, carpet tile etc.
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Any of various types of cuboid playing piece used in certain games, such as in dominoes, Scrabble, or mahjong.
(dated) A stiff hat.
To cover with tiles.
(computing) To arrange in a regular pattern, with adjoining edges (applied to tile-like objects, graphics, windows in a computer interface).
To protect from the intrusion of the uninitiated.
A type of thin, papery cookie, often bent into fancy shapes
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As verbs the difference between tile and tuile
is that tile is to cover with tiles or tile can be to protect from the intrusion of the uninitiated while tuile is .As a noun tile
is a regularly-shaped slab of clay or other material, affixed to cover or decorate a surface, as in a roof-tile, glazed tile, stove tile, carpet tile etc.tile
English
(wikipedia tile)Etymology 1
(etyl)Noun
(en noun)citation, passage=Sepia Delft tiles surrounded the fireplace, their crudely drawn Biblical scenes in faded cyclamen blending with the pinkish pine, while above them, instead of a mantelshelf, there was an archway high enough to form a balcony with slender balusters and a tapestry-hung wall behind.}}
- (Dickens)
Derived terms
* glazed tile * out on the tiles * tileworkVerb
Etymology 2
See .Alternative forms
* tyleVerb
(til)- to tile a Masonic lodge
- tile the door
Anagrams
*tuile
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