Crossword-Solution: TILE
Dictionary
| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Tile | v. t. | To protect from the intrusion of the uninitiated; as, to tile a Masonic lodge. |
| Tile | n. | A plate, or thin piece, of baked clay, used for covering the roofs of buildings, for floors, for drains, and often for ornamental mantel works. |
| Tile | n. | A small slab of marble or other material used for flooring. |
| Tile | n. | A plate of metal used for roofing. |
| Tile | n. | A small, flat piece of dried earth or earthenware, used to cover vessels in which metals are fused. |
| Tile | n. | A draintile. |
| Tile | n. | A stiff hat. |
| Tile | v. t. | To cover with tiles; as, to tile a house. |
| Tile | v. t. | Fig.: To cover, as if with tiles. |
Anagrams
| Word | Anagrams | |
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| TILE | anagram | ETIL, ILET, ITEL, LEIT, LETI, LITE, TEIL, TELI, TIEL |
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One who, or that which, eats.
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Sentences with TILE (5)
The Wolf, having shown himself an apt pupil, said to the Shepherd, “Since you have taught me to steal, you must keep a sharp lookout, or you will lose some of your own flock.” The Father and His Two Daughters A MAN had two daughters, the one married to a gardener, and the other to a tile-maker.
The floor was examined very carefully under the inscription, and, in the earth beneath a stone, or tile, or some fragment of paving, were found the ashes of a paper, mingled with the ashes of a small leathern case or bag.
Though only a mason, strictly speaking, he was not above handling a brick, if bricks were the order of the day; or a slate or tile, if a roof had to be covered before the wet weather set in, and nobody was near who could do it better.
The easiest way is that of Nanny and Jim, who said often to each other that Diamond had a tile loose.
The clerk nut-shelled the contrast between the former time and the present, thus-- 'Boat used to land--captain on hurricane roof--mighty stiff and straight--iron ramrod for a spine--kid gloves, plug tile, hair parted behind--man on shore takes off hat and says-- '“Got twenty-eight tons of wheat, cap'n--be great favor if you can take them.” 'Captain says-- '“'ll take two of them”--and don't even condescend to look at him.
Quotes with TILE (3)
What are the dead, anyway, but waves and energy? Light shining from a dead star? That, by the way, is a phrase of Julian's. I remember it from a lecture of his on the Iliad, when Patroklos appears to Achilles in a dream. There is a very moving passage where Achilles overjoyed at the sight of the apparition — tries to throw his arms around the ghost of his old friend, and it vanishes. The dead appear to us in dreams, said Julian, because that's the only way they can make us se…
But usually not. Usually she thinks of the path to his house, whether deer had eaten the tops of the fiddleheads, why they don't eat the peppermint saprophytes sprouting along the creek; or she visualizes the approach to the cabin, its large windows, the fuchsias in front of it where Anna's hummingbirds always hover with dirty green plumage and jeweled throats. Sometimes she thinks about her dream, the one in which her mother wakes up with no hands. The cabin smells of oil pa…
You are a hater of activity in life; quite right, for before there can be any meaning in activity, life must have continuity, and this your life lacks. You occupy yourself with your studies, that is true, you are even industrious. But it is only for your own sake and is done with as little teleology as possible. Otherwise you are unoccupied; like those workers in the Gospel, you stand idle in the marketplace (Matthew 20:3). You stick your hands in your pockets and observe lif…
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Appears in: Boston Globe, Chronicle, Crossroads, CrosSynergy, LAT, Newsday, New Yorker, NY Sun, NYT, Onion, Rock & Roll, S&S, Slate, Three Across, Universal, USA TODAY, WP, WSJ.
Used 895 times in crossword archives (1946–2025).