tile

carreau, tuile

Pièce plate et dure servant à couvrir un sol, un mur ou un toit.

En anglais simple : A flat piece of hard material used to cover a floor, wall, or roof.

• One tile on the floor is broken.
• They replaced the old roof tiles.
• We chose blue tiles for the bathroom walls.

Expressions courantes : floor tile, roof tile, ceramic tile, wall tile

tuile graphique

Image rectangulaire qui constitue une partie d’une image, d’une carte ou d’un écran plus grand.

En anglais simple : A rectangular image used as one part of a larger picture, map, or screen.

• Each tile shows part of the map.
• The game loads new tiles as you move.
• This tile is missing from the image grid.

Expressions courantes : map tile, image tile, tile size

carreler

Couvrir un sol, un mur ou une autre surface de pièces plates en terre cuite, pierre ou matériau similaire.

En anglais simple : To cover a floor, wall, or other surface with flat pieces of material such as clay or stone.

• We plan to tile the kitchen floor.
• She tiled the bathroom walls herself.
• The builder will tile the shower tomorrow.

Comment l'utiliser : tile something with something (They tiled the wall with small blue squares.)

Expressions courantes : tile a floor, tile a bathroom, tile with something

garder une loge

Empêcher les personnes non membres d’entrer dans une réunion de francs-maçons.

En anglais simple : To keep people who are not members from entering a Freemasons’ meeting.

• His duty was to tile the lodge.
• They tiled the meeting before the ceremony began.
• A member was appointed to tile the lodge that evening.

Synonymes : guard

Expressions courantes : tile a lodge, tile the meeting