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ROOFING TILE
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Dictionary entry overview: What does roofing tile mean?
• ROOFING TILE (noun)
The noun ROOFING TILE has 1 sense:
1. a thin flat slab of fired clay used for roofing
Familiarity information: ROOFING TILE used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
A thin flat slab of fired clay used for roofing
Classified under:
Nouns denoting substances
Synonyms:
roofing tile; tile
Hypernyms ("roofing tile" is a kind of...):
roofing material (building material used in constructing roofs)
Meronyms (substance of "roofing tile"):
clay (a very fine-grained soil that is plastic when moist but hard when fired)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "roofing tile"):
hip tile; hipped tile (a tile shaped so as to cover the hip of a hip roof)
pantile (a roofing tile with a S-shape; laid so that curves overlap)
ridge tile (a decorative tile that is bent in cross section; used to cover the ridge of a roof)
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