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tiled

[ tahyld ]

adjective

  1. covered or furnished with tiles.
  2. barred to outsiders, as nonmembers of a lodge.


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Other Words From

  • un·tiled adjective

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Word History and Origins

Origin of tiled1

late Middle English word dating back to 1400–50; tile, -ed 3

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Example Sentences

It’s the oldest home on this part of the street, built in the 1950s with three stories and attic, topped with a gray-tiled roof.

You can pick from a tiled block pattern, a soft glow, or a series of rings to map everything out.

Reach for hybrid scrubbersIf you’ve got a wide variety of surfaces to clean, from shower heads to tiled floors and all the spaces in between, you’ll want a device that can adapt.

If you’re not tied to a specific background image, either replace the image with flat colors, a gradient, or even a simple tiled pattern.

Here are some questions to direct your exploration of this square-tiled world.

Witnesses say there were at least six bodies piled together inside this one tiled room where the air is poisonous with decay.

The room is narrow and has gray tiled walls and a cream-colored ceiling.

We all know the scene, almost too well: A woman steps into a white ceramic-tiled shower and turns on a steady stream of hot water.

How's he going to feel padding around the two miles of black- and white-tiled corridors over there?

Inside, a miniature corpse lay on an operating table in a tiled room.

You might be pacing the tiled hall of a suburban villa, rather than the House of God.

The streets are well paved, and the houses built of stone, and tiled: the country is flat, but agreeable.

The clock ticks, the lamp burns, water is boiling on the homely tiled stove.

Which of you can have houses or columns or extensive pediments on top of his tiled roof?

Such things are built above the floors, not above the tiled roofs.

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