"The tile particularly offended me, but I was going to draw the line, " he said.

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So here are over 50 names for a billhook, but none for, say, a tile or malt.

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The display is outstanding with the Windows 8 tile-based Modern UI but in desktop mode, icons and text are almost too small because of the dense resolution.

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But the inside is spacious and modern, all slate tile and warm wood.

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But the chairs were still trimmed with chipping red paint, and the floor tile seemed, as ever, to fall just short of exhibiting a regular pattern.

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The live-updating panels that Windows 8 and Redmond's mobile platform utilize were never truly present on the Xbox 360, but last year's update offered a passable facsimile in the form of a rotating "featured" tile that cycled through select content.

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But the real money is in flooring: Mohawk Industries , which makes all sorts of flooring from ceramic tile, to carpet tiles to rugs.

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But the couple decided to maintain the traditional feeling of the home's front rooms, retaining the original tile in the vestibule and the chestnut molding in the parlor.

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