tile
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 →
2) A tile is a small flat piece used in a game, like in Scrabble or dominoes. tree →
3) To tile a floor or wall is to cover it with tiles. tree →
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 →
- Each tile is 1 foot square. tree →
- A box holds 12 tiles. tree →
- How many tiles cover a 4 by 5 meter wall? tree →
- Squares and hexagons tile a floor with no gaps. tree →
- A roof tile fell in the storm. tree →
- Each Scrabble tile has a letter and a number. tree →
- The bathroom has blue and white tiles. tree →
- AN ASS climbed up to the roof of a building, and frisking about there, broke in the tiling. tree →
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.
- Walk, never run, by a pool, because wet floors are slippery and falls onto tiles cause head injuries.
- Walk, never run, around a pool, because the wet floor is slippery and falls onto hard tiles cause head injuries.
- Walk, never run, around a pool, because wet tiles are slippery and falls cause head injuries.
Trees and pragmatics
Every meaning and example of «tile» parsed by Mova, each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.