Tile

(noun.) a flat thin rectangular slab (as of fired clay or rubber or linoleum) used to cover surfaces.

(noun.) game equipment consisting of a flat thin piece marked with characters and used in board games like Mah-Jong, Scrabble, etc..

(noun.) a thin flat slab of fired clay used for roofing.

(verb.) cover with tiles; 'tile the wall and the floor of the bathroom'.

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• Wherever white tile is not possible, white paint is used in profusion. 佚名. 神奇的知识之书.
• Cement, brick, tile and wood were used as building material, with various results. 佚名. 神奇的知识之书.
• Tain't a wery good 'un to look at,' said Sam, 'but it's an astonishin' 'un to wear; and afore the brim went, it was a wery handsome tile. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 匹克威克外传.
• He came back as the door was opened, and announced that he believed he had identified 'his governor's tile. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 小杜丽.
• Her best tile got a splash of water, which left a sepia tear on the Cupid's cheek. 路易莎·梅·奥尔科特. 小妇人.
• They built of brick, they made pottery and earthenware images, and they drew and presently wrote upon thin tile-like cakes of clay. 赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯. 世界史纲.
• With heart drawn fine, Gerald stepped into the hall, whose floor was of coloured tiles, went quickly and looked into the large, pleasant room. 戴维·赫伯特·劳伦斯. 恋爱中的女人.
• Let's have a look at your garden on the tiles, before I go! 查尔斯·狄更斯. 我们共同的朋友.
• Fragments of this work have been preserved, exquisite painted tiles, and also painted glass, setting forth the story of Psyche, which Palissy prepared for the chateau. 鲁伯特·萨金特·荷兰. 历史性发明.
• He also made very beautiful tiles to overlay walls, stoves, and floors. 鲁伯特·萨金特·荷兰. 历史性发明.
• In plastics there are brick machines, pressed glass ware, enameled sheet iron ware, tiles, paper buckets, celluloid and rubber articles. Edward W. Byrn. 十九世纪发明进展.
• No, no--see that your tenants don't sell their straw, and that kind of thing; and give them draining-tiles, you know. 乔治·艾略特. 米德尔马契.
• Who could continue to exist where there are no cows but the cows on the chimney-pots; nothing redolent of Pan but pan-tiles; no crop but stone crop? 查尔斯·狄更斯. 匹克威克外传.
• Some distance off, across a paddock, lay a long gray-tiled out-building. 阿瑟·柯南·道尔. 福尔摩斯回忆录.
• Even then, I would have avoided the room where they all were, but for its being the neat-tiled kitchen I have mentioned more than once. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 大卫·科波菲尔.
• The Chinese ages ago heated their hollow tiled floors by underground furnace fires. 威廉·亨利·杜利特. 世纪发明.
• The kitchen did look more substantial, because of the red-tiled floor and the stove, but it was cold and horrid. 戴维·赫伯特·劳伦斯. 恋爱中的女人.
• Here she was, in the tiled kitchen, cooking dinner! 查尔斯·狄更斯. 大卫·科波菲尔.
• There was a low plastered ceiling to a part of it; the rest was open, to the ridge of the tiled roof, and there were beams across. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 双城记.
• A sort of tiled veranda extended along one side of it, lined by several windows and two doors. 阿瑟·柯南·道尔. 福尔摩斯归来记.

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