tile
noun
Key Types & categories Parts & wholes Related & opposite
- Word type
- noun
- verb
- adjective
- adverb
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Senses
Sense 1 noun
a flat thin rectangular slab (as of fired clay or rubber or linoleum) used to cover surfaces
Types & categories
Parts & wholes
- tile roof part holonym
Related & opposite
- tile derivation
Sense 2 verb
cover with tiles
tile the wall and the floor of the bathroom
Types & categories
- cover hypernym
- tessellate hyponym
Related & opposite
- tiling derivation
- tile derivation
- tiler derivation
- roofing tile derivation
Sense 3 noun
a thin flat slab of fired clay used for roofing
Types & categories
- roofing material hypernym
- hip tile hyponym
- pantile hyponym
- ridge tile hyponym
Parts & wholes
- clay substance meronym
Related & opposite
- tile derivation
Sense 4 noun
game equipment consisting of a flat thin piece marked with characters and used in board games like Mah-Jong, Scrabble, etc.
Types & categories
- man hypernym
Table view of this graph
| Sense | Relation | Group | Word |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | derivation | Related & opposite | tile |
| 1 | part holonym | Parts & wholes | tile roof |
| 1 | hypernym | Types & categories | slab |
| 1 | hyponym | Types & categories | tessera |
| 2 | derivation | Related & opposite | tiling |
| 2 | derivation | Related & opposite | tile |
| 2 | derivation | Related & opposite | tiler |
| 2 | derivation | Related & opposite | roofing tile |
| 2 | hypernym | Types & categories | cover |
| 2 | hyponym | Types & categories | tessellate |
| 3 | derivation | Related & opposite | tile |
| 3 | substance meronym | Parts & wholes | clay |
| 3 | hypernym | Types & categories | roofing material |
| 3 | hyponym | Types & categories | hip tile |
| 3 | hyponym | Types & categories | pantile |
| 3 | hyponym | Types & categories | ridge tile |
| 4 | hypernym | Types & categories | man |