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ROOFING TILE

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 I. (noun) 

Sense 1

Meaning:

A thin flat slab of fired clay used for roofing

Synonyms:

roofing tile; tile

Classified under:

Nouns denoting substances

Hypernyms ("roofing tile" is a kind of...):

roofing material (building material used in constructing roofs)

Meronyms (substance of "roofing tile"):

clay (a very fine-grained soil that is plastic when moist but hard when fired)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "roofing tile"):

hip tile; hipped tile (a tile shaped so as to cover the hip of a hip roof)

pantile (a roofing tile with a S-shape; laid so that curves overlap)

ridge tile (a decorative tile that is bent in cross section; used to cover the ridge of a roof)

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