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TILED
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Dictionary entry overview: What does tiled mean?
• TILED (adjective)
The adjective TILED has 1 sense:
1. covered or furnished with tiles
Familiarity information: TILED used as an adjective is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
Covered or furnished with tiles
Context example:
a tiled kitchen
Similar:
covered (overlaid or spread or topped with or enclosed within something; sometimes used as a combining form)
Context examples
Here she was, in the tiled kitchen, cooking dinner!
(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)
Unfortunately, the path was tiled at that point.
(The Return of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
The peasant made the raven croak again, and said: In the second place, he says that there is some roast meat in the tiled stove.
(Fairy Tales, by The Brothers Grimm)
Some distance off, across a paddock, lay a long grey-tiled out-building.
(The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
You see, between you an' me close-tiled, I look on this South American business as a mighty serious thing, and if I have a pal with me I want a man I can bank on.
(The Lost World, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
The great fire crackled in the grate, the hooded hawks slept upon their perches, the rough deer-hounds with expectant eyes crouched upon the tiled floor; close at the elbows of the guests stood the dapper little lilac-coated pages; the laugh and jest circled round and all was harmony and comfort.
(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
As a house, Barton Cottage, though small, was comfortable and compact; but as a cottage it was defective, for the building was regular, the roof was tiled, the window shutters were not painted green, nor were the walls covered with honeysuckles.
(Sense and Sensibility, by Jane Austen)
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.
(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)
A sort of tiled veranda extended along one side of it, lined by several windows and two doors.
(The Return of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
It is my husband! she quickly hid the roast meat inside the tiled stove, the wine under the pillow, the salad on the bed, the cakes under it, and the parson in the closet on the porch.
(Fairy Tales, by The Brothers Grimm)
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