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
  • This is the first year in a multiyear project in which about 6,800 hydrants will eventually be repainted.
    — Mike Danahey, Chicago Tribune, 18 Aug. 2026
  • People pull out the barbecue, open fire hydrants, throw block parties.
    — Veronique Greenwood, Time, 9 July 2026
Definition of hydrants
Noun
  • Despite the installation of a smoke filtration system, preliminary testing found that emissions from its boiler smokestacks exceeded Cambodia’s legal limits.
    — Jasmin Malik Chua, Footwear News, 17 July 2026
  • If that process were adapted to store CO2 in the earth forever, then billions of tons of carbon emissions could, in theory, be captured from smokestacks and buried.
    — Maddie Stone, ProPublica, 25 June 2026
Definition of smokestacks
Noun
  • Seventy million barrels is the strict physical minimum needed at the top of the caverns to keep the extraction pipes safely submerged in oil rather than water, said Siddharth Misra, a petroleum engineering professor at Texas A&M University.
    — Spencer Kimball, CNBC, 15 Aug. 2026
  • The main issues with Puerto Rico’s water infrastructure are the aging pipes that transport the resource across the island to residences and businesses and a lack of funding allocated to restoration projects.
    — Carlos De Loera, Los Angeles Times, 14 Aug. 2026
Definition of pipes
Noun
  • The National Weather Service says waterspouts are most likely to occur in Northern Michigan from August through October, given differences in air and water temperatures that can occur in the Great Lakes region.
    — Paula Wethington, CBS News, 19 June 2026
  • Conditions are favorable for the development of weak, brief funnel clouds or weak waterspouts.
    — NC Weather Bot, Charlotte Observer, 16 June 2026
Definition of waterspouts
Noun
  • The device can deliver speedy phone charging and doubles as a mains power extension with a portable form factor that won’t eat up too much of your baggage allowance.
    — Mark Sparrow, Forbes.com, 7 Aug. 2026
  • The sewer bond funds will be used to rehabilitate sewer mains, build additional green infrastructure and make upgrades to pump stations.
    — Dylan Lysen, Kansas City Star, 5 Aug. 2026
Definition of mains
Noun
  • Some of the pouring spouts are also located on the side of the lid instead of on top.
    — BestReviews, Chicago Tribune, 3 Aug. 2026
  • Splash about in North America’s largest wave pool as a shipwrecked vessel spouts water overhead at Disney’s Typhoon Lagoon.
    — Carly Caramanna, Travel + Leisure, 31 July 2026
Definition of spouts

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“Tiles.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/tiles. Accessed 21 Aug. 2026.

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