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Definition of Tilelike
1. resembling a tile [adj]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Tilelike
Literary usage of Tilelike
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Portfolio of Dermochromes by Jerome Kingsbury, William Gaynor States, Eduard Jacobi (1913)
"In cases of higher degree a tilelike arrangement may be noted, corresponding in
part to the natural folds of the thickened skin. ..."
2. A Compend of Geology by Joseph LeConte (1898)
"concentric shells, producing domes ; in eruptives, of many shapes, rough cubic,
ball-like, regular columnar, tilelike. FIG. 133. ..."
3. A Dictionary of English Etymology by Hensleigh Wedgwood, John Christopher Atkinson (1872)
"... a brick or tile, the plinth or flat tilelike member on which a column rests.
To Plight. See Pledge. To Plod. The primitive sense of piad or plod is to ..."
4. Portuguese Architecture by Walter Crum Watson (1908)
"At the bottom is a large rope moulding, then three courses of tilelike bricks
set diagonally. Above them is a broad frieze divided into squares by a round ..."
5. Portuguese Architecture by Walter Crum Watson (1908)
"At the bottom is a large rope moulding, then three courses of tilelike bricks
set diagonally. Above them is a broad frieze divided into squares by a round ..."
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