tile
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- (countable & uncountable) A tile is a hard flat building material, usually made of clay or glass.
- The new floor would be ceramic tile, and the tiles on the walls were being replaced.
- The walls were wood from the Lace Forest, the roof tiles made of molded riverbank clay.
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- (transitive) If you tile a surface, you cover it with tiles.