Usually means: Covering for floors or walls.
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General (27 matching dictionaries)
  1. tile: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
  2. tile: Merriam-Webster
  3. tile: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  4. tile: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  5. tile: Collins English Dictionary
  6. tile: Vocabulary.com
  7. Tile, tile: Wordnik
  8. tile: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  9. tile: Wiktionary
  10. tile: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  11. tile: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  12. tile: Infoplease Dictionary
  13. tile: Dictionary.com
  14. tile (n.): Online Etymology Dictionary
  15. tile: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  16. Tile (company), Tile (computer graphics), Tile (disambiguation), Tile (software), Tile: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  17. Tile: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  18. tile: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  19. tile: Rhymezone
  20. tile: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  21. tile: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  22. Tile: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable (1898)
  23. tile: FreeDictionary.org
  24. tile: Mnemonic Dictionary
  25. tile: TheFreeDictionary.com

Art (1 matching dictionary)
  1. tile: ArtLex Lexicon of Visual Art Terminology

Business (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Construction Term Glossary (No longer online)

Computing (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. Tile: Game Dictionary
  2. tile: Computer Telephony & Electronics Dictionary and Glossary
  3. tile: Encyclopedia

Medicine (1 matching dictionary)
  1. online medical dictionary (No longer online)

Miscellaneous (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. TILE: Acronym Finder
  2. tile: Idioms

Science (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Archaeology Wordsmith (No longer online)

Slang (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. tile, tile: Green’s Dictionary of Slang
  2. Tile: Urban Dictionary

Tech (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. AUTOMOTIVE TERMS (No longer online)
  2. Urban Conservation Glossary (No longer online)

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Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
noun:  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.
noun:  (computing) A rectangular graphic.
noun:  Any of various flat cuboid playing pieces used in certain games, such as dominoes, Scrabble, or mahjong.
noun:  (dated, informal) A stiff hat.
verb:  (transitive) To cover with tiles.
verb:  (graphical user interface) To arrange in a regular pattern, with adjoining edges (applied to tile-like objects, graphics, windows in a computer interface).
verb:  (computing theory) To optimize (a loop in program code) by means of the tiling technique.
verb:  (Freemasonry) To seal a lodge against intrusions from unauthorised people.
verb:  To protect from the intrusion of the uninitiated.

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