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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Tile \Tile\, verb (used with an object) [imp. & p. p. {Tiled}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Tiling}.]
1. To cover with tiles; as, to tile a house.
2. Fig.: To cover, as if with tiles.
The muscle, sinew, and vein, Which tile this house, will come again. --Donne.
From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Tile \Tile\, verb (used with an object) [See 2d {Tiler}.] To protect from the intrusion of the uninitiated; as, to tile a Masonic lodge.
From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Tile \Tile\, noun [OE. tile, tigel, AS. tigel, tigol, fr. L. tegula, from tegere to cover. See {Thatch}, and cf. {Tegular}.]
1. A plate, or thin piece, of baked clay, used for covering the roofs of buildings, for floors, for drains, and often for ornamental mantel works.
2. (Arch.) (a) A small slab of marble or other material used for flooring. (b) A plate of metal used for roofing.
3. (Metal.) A small, flat piece of dried earth or earthenware, used to cover vessels in which metals are fused.
4. A draintile.
5. A stiff hat. [Colloq.] --Dickens.
{Tile drain}, a drain made of tiles.
{Tile earth}, a species of strong, clayey earth; stiff and stubborn land. [Prov. Eng.]
{Tile kiln}, a kiln in which tiles are burnt; a tilery.
{Tile ore} (Min.), an earthy variety of cuprite.
{Tile red}, light red like the color of tiles or bricks.
{Tile tea}, a kind of hard, flat brick tea. See {Brick tea}, under {Brick}.
From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:
tile
noun
1: a flat thin rectangular slab (as of fired clay or rubber or linoleum) used to cover surfaces
2: a thin flat slab of fired clay used for roofing [syn: {roofing tile}]
verb: cover with tiles; "tile the wall and the floor of the bathroom"
From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:
84 Moby Thesaurus words for "tile": Tarmac, Tarvia, adobe, ashlar, asphalt, biscuit, bisque, bitumen, bituminous macadam, blacktop, board, bowl, brick, bricks and mortar, cement, ceramic ware, ceramics, china, clapboard, clinker, cobble, cobblestone, concrete, covering materials, crock, crockery, curb, curbing, curbstone, edgestone, enamelware, face, ferroconcrete, firebrick, flag, flagging, flagstone, flooring, glass, glaze, gravel, jug, kerb, kerbstone, lath, lath and plaster, macadam, masonry, mortar, paper, pavement, pavestone, paving, paving material, paving stone, plank, plasters, porcelain, pot, pottery, prestressed concrete, refractory, revet, road metal, roofage, roofing, shake, sheathe, shingle, siding, slate, stone, tarmacadam, thatch, tiling, urn, vase, veneer, wall in, wall up, walling, wallpaper, washboard, weatherboard
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