Talk:tile

can i use this part to ask a question? does anybody know what the expression "for tile purposes" means exactly or where it comes from? I came across it in the African Charter on the Rights and Welfare of the Child that states "For tile purposes of this Charter, a child means every human being below the age of 18 years." I have googled for it and found many more hits of people using this expression but can't find any explanation for it... — This comment was unsigned.

That could only be a scanning error, a transcription error or a translation error for the word "the." --Connel MacKenzie 07:05, 17 November 2006 (UTC)

This is an OCR scanning error for "for the purposes". (Which is what the OAU source text does say in the cited case.) I looked at a few of the hits, and they all show other artifacts of being scanned documents. (Like words broken at hyphen- ation points.) In this case, also: "Every child shall have the right from his birth no a name." (should be "to a name" of course, and is in the original OAU doc file) Robert Ullmann 07:14, 17 November 2006 (UTC)

More meanings of tile (verb)?

In some computer programs, you can "tile (windows) horizontally". The meaning of "tile" here seems different to me from the meaning "1. To cover with tiles.". Or are they still the same, although in a very abstract sense? Or should there be a second meaning of "tile (verb)"? What do you think? --DoltX 11:42, 14 August 2008 (UTC)

 Done Equinox ◑ 19:48, 7 June 2019 (UTC)

"a tube or pipe of baked clay used in drains"

This sense appears in Chambers 1908. It does seem to be covered by our sense 1, "regularly-shaped slab of clay", but surprised me because I'm only familiar with tiles that are (more or less) square or rectangular. Equinox ◑ 19:47, 7 June 2019 (UTC)

Hat etymology?

John Camden Hotten's Slang Dictionary (1873) says it's from pantile, earlier slang for a hat. So should we split the etymology? Equinox ◑ 11:09, 1 April 2021 (UTC)