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How to pronounce “tile”
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Pronunciation guide for tile
- Learning goal
- Practice the English pronunciation of tile with real speech in context.
- Available examples
- 8 YouTube examples
- Real speech example
- A Mysterious Design That Appears Across Millennia
and the notion of an aperiodic tile set using only two tiles was such a sensation,
- Definition summary
- 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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How to pronounce tile
A Mysterious Design That Appears Across Millennia

and the notion of an aperiodic tile set using only two tiles was such a sensation,
Example Sentences
A Deep Dive Into “tile”
Meaning
- [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.
- (computing) A rectangular graphic.
- Any of various flat cuboid playing pieces used in certain games, such as dominoes, Scrabble, or mahjong.
- (dated, informal) A stiff hat.
- (Lego building) A Lego piece that is 1/3 the height of a brick, and is smooth without studs on top.
- [Verb]
- (transitive) To cover with tiles.
- (graphical user interface) To arrange in a regular pattern, with adjoining edges (applied to tile-like objects, graphics, windows in a computer interface).
- (computing theory) To optimize (a loop in program code) by means of the tiling technique.
- (Freemasonry) To seal a lodge against intrusions from unauthorised people.
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