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(archaic) A small tile of glass, marble, or other substance, of various colors, used in making ornamental patterns in mosaic pavements; abaciscus.
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A transparent sheet used for overlays.
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A decorative ornament worked in low relief or bas relief, such as a piece of cameo jewelry.
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An altarpiece, especially one of multiple connected pictures
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(interior design) Covered with Artex (a surface coating used for interior decorating).
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A tool used to mold such features; similar tools used for connecting panes of glass in a window.
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The use in art or architecture of a repeating decorative motif consisting of a vegetal or floral pattern, especially as formerly practised in Islamic Spain and North Africa.
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(historical) A meteorite or similar-looking rough stone thought to be of divine origin and worshipped as sacred.
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(archaeology) The roughly biconical remains of a piece of worked flint(1) from which all possible blades have been struck.
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A grooved strip of lead used to hold panes of glass together.
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(mathematics) Generated or modified by a cantellation.
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The chrome ornamentation on a vehicle or other object.
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Crossed by deep rectangular furrows.
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(archaeology) A heart-shaped hand axe.
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An arrangement or pattern of crossbands.
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A tile with an incised surface.
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(architecture) A dentil.
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(architecture) Having dentils or denticules
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Alternative spelling of double glazing [A system of insulated windows (and doors) having two parallel layers of glass separated by an air space]
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A tile or flagstone cut into a hexagonal shape to produce a honeycomb pattern.
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The supporting ironwork associated with stained glass panels.
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(dentistry, transitive) To apply texturing to (a denture) to simulate human tissue.
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(mathematics) Of or pertaining to the fiber of a map.
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A type of artistic drawing and lettering, incorporating brightly coloured stylised lines, flowers and climbing plants, particularly associated with the city of Buenos Aires, Argentina.
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A strip of plastering laid on first, to serve as a guide for the thickness of the coat.
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A tile, made from any material, designed to be laid as flooring.
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(architecture) Alternative form of gemeled (“divided into two”) [(architecture) Divided into two.]
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A gridlike material used in a cellular confinement system.
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Any of a set of five tiles used in the creation of girih patterns.
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(uncountable) The craft of a glazier; making and fitting windows.
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Covered with a grid of lines.
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artificial ornamental rockwork in imitation of a grotto
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A set of tiles or shingles that overlap like the scales of a fish.
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A covering or inlaying of marble, mosaic, etc., attached to the masonry by cramp irons or cement.
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A form of masonry in which the vertical joint of each course is in the middle of the block beneath.
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A lamina; a thin layer or plate of material, as in certain kinds of armor.
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The act or process of making a lattice of, or of fitting a lattice to.
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Rare spelling of machicolated. [Having machicolations.]
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A piece of artwork created by placing colored squares (usually tiles) in a pattern so as to create a picture.
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Obsolete form of mosaic. [A piece of artwork created by placing colored squares (usually tiles) in a pattern so as to create a picture.]
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Decorated with a mural.
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(art) Decorated with niello.
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(transitive) To tile with pantiles.
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(construction) A form of decorative plasterwork used on exterior walls of buildings.
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(art, historical) A crescent-shaped design used in mosaics.
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A tall narrow mirror, usually set between two windows, above a pier table.
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(anatomy) any flat surface
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(architecture) A variant of flushwork in which the stone stands "proud" of, rather than "flush" with the wall
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(masonry) Constructed with diamond-shaped stones.
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Artificial rockwork made of rough stones and cement, as for gardens.
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Ornamental work done with rocks, as for example around a pond.
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(obsolete) A round mass, plate, or disk, especially the crust or scale that forms upon the surface of molten metal in the crucible.
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(architecture) An ornament in the form of a rose or roundel, much used in decoration.
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(architecture, rare) Adorned with rudenture.
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Visual artifacts that are evident in the cross-sections of ivory.
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To construct or provide with slats.
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(architecture) The use of such glass to construct decorative windows, especially in churches.
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A style of white glazed ceramic tile, as used on the walls of the New York City subway stations in the early twentieth century, especially the 3" × 6" size then used.
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(slang) Synonym of parasol
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Alternative form of terrazzo [(architecture) A faux-marble material used for flooring and countertops.]
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Formed of tesserae, like a mosaic.
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Alternative spelling of tessellate [(transitive) To cover with tiles or stones, as a mosaic; to tile.]
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Covered with pieces that are identically shaped.
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Alternative spelling of tessellation [(uncountable) The property or fact of tessellating.]
adj
Alternative form of tesselar [Formed of tesserae, like a mosaic.]
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(transitive) To cover with tiles or stones, as a mosaic; to tile.
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(countable) A tiling pattern with no gaps; the result of tessellating an area or plane.
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A small square piece of stone, wood, ivory or glass used for making a mosaic.
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(obsolete) Done in mosaic; tessellated.
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Of, or pertaining to, tesserae.
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An insulated glazing unit.
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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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A place where tiles are manufactured or fired.
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The arrangement of tiles on a surface.
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Relating to chasing such as surface ornamentation in metal.
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(computing theory, telecommunications) A kind of graph, used in communication theory and encryption, whose nodes are ordered into vertical slices by time, with each node at each time connected to at least one node at an earlier and at least one node at a later time.
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(Britain) a safety glass for car windows, consisting of three layers (glass and mica).
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Any of a set of square tiles decorated with patterns that are not rotationally symmetric. When placed within a square tiling of the plane, they can form varied patterns.
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Alternative form of tile (to protect from the intrusion of the uninitiated) [(transitive) To cover with tiles.]
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A type of vinyl tile used as a covering for floors, especially in public areas. Abbreviation: VCT
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Having a stained glass window.
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(architecture) A form of terracotta tilework covered with enamel in the form of chips set into plaster, characteristic of Moroccan architecture.
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Alternative form of zellige [(architecture) A form of terracotta tilework covered with enamel in the form of chips set into plaster, characteristic of Moroccan architecture.]
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Alternative form of zellige [(architecture) A form of terracotta tilework covered with enamel in the form of chips set into plaster, characteristic of Moroccan architecture.]
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