Used in a Sentence

tiles

Definition, parts of speech, synonyms, and sentence examples for tiles.

Editorial note

Scrabble is arranging a random selection of tiles into combinations in such a way that score is maximized.

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Definitions1
Parts of speech1

Quick take

an American progressive rock band from Detroit, Michigan, United States.

Meaning at a glance

The clearest senses and uses of tiles gathered in one view.

N

an American progressive rock band from Detroit, Michigan, United States.

Definitions

Core meanings and parts of speech for tiles.

N

an American progressive rock band from Detroit, Michigan, United States.

Example sentences

1

Scrabble is arranging a random selection of tiles into combinations in such a way that score is maximized.

2

Metro tiles are OK for simple apps, but you are not going to make CAD or NLE with that.

3

We are basically talking downloading the map tiles to the device you want to browse from.

4

Actually stitched the tiles together and printed it on one page on our color laser printer...

5

Several MS videos show people scrolling though tiles on their phone so it is expected behavior.

6

Metro with its large tiles for those same applications was a much better fit for that.

7

The tiles could have hexadecimal numbers on them and could be played against a randomly generated dictionary of scored combinations.

8

It would be nice to have a screen that tiles the images like Apple's Camera Roll.

9

It's possible that what happened with your game was that it was your opponent's turn first but they didn't place any tiles.

10

Now I have to click three times as much to disable live tiles for a bunch of apps.

11

What if you have to race other people who can also move the tiles?

12

It takes roughly ~4 clicks to switch to DuckDuckGo and disable the tiles.

Quote examples

1

Perhaps a better, succinct, rule that tackles the same problem would be "a minimum of two tiles must be placed".

2

Hired an illustrator to do a watercolor of the campus on large tiles (maybe 8" by 11") and then scanned them in at high resolution and created a large image that we ran through OpenLayers [1] and built a searchable campus map.

Proper noun examples

1

It seems like the hot buttons for folks tend to be: Yahoo, Pocket, Hello, Tiles, H.264, and Australis.

Frequently asked questions

Short answers drawn from the clearest meanings and examples for this word.

How do you use tiles in a sentence?

Scrabble is arranging a random selection of tiles into combinations in such a way that score is maximized.

What does tiles mean?

an American progressive rock band from Detroit, Michigan, United States.

What part of speech is tiles?

tiles is commonly used as N.