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31Mathematical tile — For tilings in geometry, see Tessellation. Black glazed mathematical tiles as seen here at 44 Old Steine are a characteristic feature of Brighton s 18th century architecture …
32spawning tile — a piece of hard and flat material such as a pottery tile, plastic or glass intended as an area for fish to deposit their eggs in aquaria. Rocks may also be used as in nature …
33book tile — a flat, cellular roofing tile having two parallel edges one of which is convex and the other concave, so that a number may be fit together edge to edge between rafters, joists, etc. * * * …
34flashing tile — noun : a structural clay tile made with a recess to receive the flashing from a roof and used in a wall just above the junction of a flat roof with the wall compare flashing block …
35pill tile — noun : a flat slab of porcelain or glass on which the mixture from a pill masser is placed and rolled …
36Imbrex and tegula — The imbrex and tegula (plurals imbrices and tegulae) were overlapping roof tiles used in ancient Greek and Roman architecture as a waterproof and durable roof covering. They were made predominantly of fired clay, but also sometimes of marble,… …
37Monk and Nun — A roof of Monk and Nun tiles Monk and Nun is a style of roof similar to Imbrex and tegula, but instead of using a flat tile (tegula) and an arched tile (imbrex), two arched ibrex tiles are used. The top linking tiles are the monk tiles and the… …
38Filippino Lippi — Filippo Lippi (c. 1457 ndash; April 1504) was a well known painter working during the High Renaissance in Florence, Italy. BiographyBorn Filippo Lippi in Prato (Tuscany), the illegitimate son of the painter Fra Filippo Lippi and nun Lucrezia Buti …
39Root, John Wellborn — ▪ American architect born Jan. 10, 1850, Lumpkin, Ga., U.S. died Jan. 15, 1891, Chicago architect, one of the greatest practitioners in the Chicago School of commercial American architecture. His works are among the most distinguished early …
40tiler — tile ► NOUN 1) a thin square or rectangular piece of baked clay, concrete, cork, etc., used for covering roofs, floors, or walls. 2) a thin, flat piece used in Scrabble, mah jong, and other games. ► VERB ▪ cover with tiles. ● on the tiles Cf. ↑on …
