Crossword clues for tiling
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Tile \Tile\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Tiled; p. pr. & vb. n. Tiling.]
To cover with tiles; as, to tile a house.
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Fig.: To cover, as if with tiles.
The muscle, sinew, and vein, Which tile this house, will come again.
--Donne.
Tiling \Til"ing\, n.
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A surface covered with tiles, or composed of tiles.
They . . . let him down through the tiling.
--Luke v. 19. Tiles, collectively.
Wiktionary
n. 1 A covering of tiles. 2 The act of applying tiles. vb. (present participle of tile English)
WordNet
n. the application of tiles to cover a surface
Wikipedia
Tiling may refer to:
- The physical act of laying tiles
- Tessellations
Tiling is a small, undistinguished crater on the far side of the Moon. It is located just over one crater diameter to the north-northeast of the prominent crater Fizeau. The outer rim of Tiling is worn and rounded, with a small craterlet along the western edge. The interior floor is relatively level and featureless, with only a small craterlet along the eastern edge and inner wall.
To the north-northeast of Tiling and running towards the northeast is a broken groove in the surface. Several such features lie in the irregular terrain to the east and northeast of Tiling, and these are all radial to the Mare Orientale impact basin farther to the northeast.
Usage examples of "tiling".
Those fancy temples to almighty Mammon burned with remarkable gusto despite all the fireproof rugs and drapes, asbestos tiling, and years of accumulated Allstate premiums guaranteeing that No Harm would ever befall the indulgent bailiwicks at the top of our social, economic, and criminal food chain .
A very nice one, with elegant yellow tiling, kept extremely smart by a zealous Dame Pipi, who had now gone home.
Specifically, the Court in the Senn Case gave its approval to the application of a Wisconsin statute which authorized the giving of publicity to labor disputes, declared peaceful picketing and patrolling lawful, and prohibited the granting of injunctions against such conduct to a controversy in which the matter at issue was the refusal of a tiling contractor employing nonunion workmen to sign a closed shop agreement unless a provision requiring him to abstain from working in his business as a tile layer or helper should be eliminated.
Sub-Level Two, the last tiling he heard was the echoing voice of Harold Quaid of the National Security Agency shouting fiercely at some poor unseen subordinate.
He crashed back on to the shiny blue ceramic tiling, skull making a nasty cracking sound, a thin stream of pea-green vomit sloshing from his slack mouth.
For several rooms in sequence we were confronted by questions related to tiling patterns - tessellations - while another sequence tested our understanding of cellular automata: odd chequerboard armies of shapes which obeyed simple rules and yet interacted in stunningly complex ways.
And Sweetgrass Smoke, the daughter of an esteemed artisan of the castle, had been used like a slave by useless, brutal thegns who were only one step above him in the order of tilings.
Which was, after all, in keeping with the way tilings worked around there.
The last tiling she wanted was for Cameron to find fault with her application.
He subdueth all tilings unto Himself Be steadfast in hope, immovable in patience and love, always abounding in the outward and inward labour of love.
He looked at Marius' riding companion and said, "Danilo, I had your tilings sent directly to the cadet barracks.
The morning sun shone upon her, and she seemed to him to be the daintiest, sweetest tiling upon earth.
Instead he always said tilings like, "I'll bet that Luet is angry because of the way Hushidh never stops Dazya from bossing the younger children," or "Father doesn't really love Nafai more than everybody else, it's just that Nafai is the only one who understands what Father is doing and can help him to do it.
Instead he always said tilings like, “I’ll bet that Luet is angry because of the way Hushidh never stops Dazya from bossing the younger children,” or “Father doesn’t really love Nafai more than everybody else, it’s just that Nafai is the only one who understands what Father is doing and can help him to do it.
Finally he popped out again, closed the door behind him, paused only to admire the skill with which a portion of the tiling in the tunnel had been utilized as a door, then went on across the tracks.