be/go out on the tiles
tile
verb[ T ]
uk /taɪl/ us /taɪl/
to cover a wall or floor with tiles: 给…铺瓦;给…贴瓷砖
We're going to tile the bathroom.我们要给浴室贴瓷砖。

SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases

Covering and adding layers
additive
asphalt
bestrew
bind
blanket
blindfold
fall over
film
film over
gum
gum something up
inlaid
retile
retread
seasoned
slap
slap something on
smother something in/with something
tent
wax

tile | American Dictionary

tile
noun[ C ]
us/tɑɪl/
a flat, thin, usually square piece of baked clay, plastic, or other material used for covering floors, walls, or roofs:
a tile floor
ceiling tiles

tile

verb[ T ]us/tɑɪl/
We’re going to tile the bathroom ourselves.

Examples of tile

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The red tiles have fallen off and fall off the facades of the three university buildings.
The facade tiles were attached to the columns from the inside with copper wire.
The health care worker decides which six of the tiles he or she will give to the group.
As a rough guide to the size of a calculation, we count the number of hexagonal tiles in the substitution region.
Next we recall the definition of the tiling dynamical system associated with the substitution ; see for more details.
A point in the inverse limit is then a consistent prescription for constructing a tiling out to infinity.
Therefore, tiles of the second level are composed uniquely.
To get an idea of what these tiling spaces look like, consider the substitution on two letters given by = 12, = 122.
An easy example for this is the system defined by the two one-dimensional tiles and.
We therefore have to show that a real set of steps can't be built by tiling according to our rules.
A translation moves the black tiles into the white ones.
In this paper we shall concentrate on flat tiles only.
The fundamental concept that gives the basis of both logics is the introduction of suitable auxiliary tiles, modelling all the consistent rearrangements of the interfaces.
The piece of mosaics could also be tiled with different angles to obtain complex figures.
How does the tiling behavior of astrocytes contribute to their interconnectivity?
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