tiles

noun

plural of tile
as in drains

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Recent Examples of tiles The tiles form pentagonal arrangements, yet pentagons can’t fit snugly side by side to tile the plane. — Patchen Barss, Wired News, 5 Oct. 2025 With no 6 pips dominoes, my best guess was this would need four 5 pip tiles and one 4 pip tile to complete. — Erik Kain, Forbes.com, 3 Sep. 2025
Recent Examples of Synonyms for tiles
  1. drains
  2. drainpipes
  3. hydrants
  4. smokestacks
  5. pipes
  6. waterspouts
  7. mains
  8. spouts
Noun
  • Descaling and Unclogging Uses Use cleaning vinegar to unclog stubborn drains by adding 1 cup of baking soda to your drain followed by 1 cup of cleaning vinegar, says Dills.
    — Alexandra Kelly, Martha Stewart, 25 Jan. 2026
  • Below, San Angelo gives us several methods for cleaning bathroom sink drains, her best tips on how to avoid a clogged bathroom sink, and what to avoid when cleaning your bathroom sink drain.
    — Daley Quinn, Southern Living, 27 Aug. 2025
Definition of drains
Noun
  • Kearns family pushes for change In the wake of the teen's death, the Kearns family pushed for Mason's Law, mandating the marking, guarding and grading of drainpipes in the state.
    — Tara Lynch, CBS News, 31 July 2026
  • His favorite example is capturing condensation from air conditioners, typically by placing a bucket under outdoor drainpipes.
    — ABC News, ABC News, 30 Apr. 2026
Definition of drainpipes
Noun
  • Some hydrants were jammed up by freezing temperatures; the blaze was contained in part because of a fireboat that Collins had funded.
    — Emma Green, New Yorker, 25 Sep. 2026
  • The loss of pressure in hydrants has happened before in wildfires, including the 2008 Freeway Complex fire, the 2017 Tubbs and Thomas fires, the 2018 Woolsey fire and the 2024 Mountain fire.
    — Ian James, Los Angeles Times, 8 Sep. 2026
Definition of hydrants
Noun
  • At night, lights shine on the wreck, and flames will shoot from the smokestacks.
    — Jim Dobson, Forbes.com, 29 Aug. 2026
  • Its skyline is dominated by towering smokestacks, hulking arrays of metal tubes and bright flames erupting from flares at petrochemical plants in the global plastics supply chain.
    — Michael Hawthorne, Chicago Tribune, 23 Aug. 2026
Definition of smokestacks
Noun
  • Think again of a gigantic system of pipes, each of which is open or closed with a certain probability.
    — Manon Bischoff, Scientific American, 30 Sep. 2026
  • Jacob Markstrom and Akira Schmid will now be between the pipes for Florida.
    — Jordan McPherson, Miami Herald, 28 Sep. 2026
Definition of pipes
Noun
  • Nolo could also spawn tornadoes and large waterspouts over and near the Big Island and to the right of the track of the tropical cyclone.
    — Marlene Lenthang, NBC news, 26 Sep. 2026
  • Some stronger storms could produce winds of 35 mph or higher, and waterspouts cannot be ruled out, particularly east of the system's center.
    — Brandi D. Addison, USA Today, 31 Aug. 2026
Definition of waterspouts
Noun
  • Start by planning the menu, including fall appetizers, mains, desserts, and seasonal drinks—and make sure to finalize the guest list a week out.
    — Wendy Rose Gould, Martha Stewart, 16 Sep. 2026
  • Over the course of several hours, a kaleidoscopic array of appetizers, mains and desserts were paraded out for the hundreds of guests wearing their Sunday finery.
    — Sean Timberlake, Sacbee.com, 8 Sep. 2026
Definition of mains
Noun
  • Reattach & Run Water The last step is to reattach your showerhead and turn on the water to flush any remaining vinegar from the spouts.
    — Ashlyn Needham, Southern Living, 21 Sep. 2026
  • From flash flooding to water spouts turned tornadoes, August's weather has been particularly out-of-the-ordinary.
    — Amethyst Martinez, USA Today, 24 Aug. 2026
Definition of spouts

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“Tiles.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/tiles. Accessed 2 Oct. 2026.

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