Carpet vs. Tile

Carpetnoun

A fabric used as a complete floor covering.

Tilenoun

A regularly-shaped slab of clay or other material, affixed to cover or decorate a surface, as in a roof-tile, glazed tile, stove tile, carpet tile etc.

Carpetnoun

(figuratively) Any surface or cover resembling a carpet or fulfilling its function.

Tilenoun

(computing) A rectangular graphic.

‘Each tile within Google Maps consists of 256 × 256 pixels.’; ‘Sprites and tiles that are hidden in the prototype ROM file can be recovered.’;

Carpetnoun

(obsolete) A wrought cover for tables.

Tilenoun

Any of various types of cuboid playing piece used in certain games, such as in dominoes, Scrabble, or mahjong.

Carpetnoun

A woman's pubic hair.

Tilenoun

(dated) A stiff hat.

Carpetverb

To lay carpet, or to have carpet installed, in an area.

‘After the fire, they carpeted over the blackened hardwood flooring.’; ‘The builders were carpeting in the living room when Zadie inspected her new house.’;

Tileverb

(transitive) To cover with tiles.

‘The handyman tiled the kitchen.’; ‘White marble tiled the bathroom.’;

Carpetverb

(transitive) To substantially cover something, as a carpet does; to blanket something.

‘Popcorn and candy wrappers carpeted the floor of the cinema.’;

Tileverb

(computing) To arrange in a regular pattern, with adjoining edges (applied to tile-like objects, graphics, windows in a computer interface).

Carpetverb

(UK) To reprimand.

Tileverb

(comptheory) To optimize (a loop in program code) by means of the tiling technique.

Carpetnoun

A heavy woven or felted fabric, usually of wool, but also of cotton, hemp, straw, etc.; esp. a floor covering made in breadths to be sewed together and nailed to the floor, as distinguished from a rug or mat; originally, also, a wrought cover for tables.

‘Tables and beds covered with copes instead of carpets and coverlets.’;

Tileverb

To protect from the intrusion of the uninitiated.

‘to tile a Masonic lodge’; ‘tile the door’;

Carpetnoun

A smooth soft covering resembling or suggesting a carpet.

Tileverb

To protect from the intrusion of the uninitiated; as, to tile a Masonic lodge.

Carpetverb

To cover with, or as with, a carpet; to spread with carpets; to furnish with a carpet or carpets.

‘Carpeted temples in fashionable squares.’;

Tileverb

To cover with tiles; as, to tile a house.

Carpetnoun

floor covering consisting of a piece of thick heavy fabric (usually with nap or pile)

Tileverb

Fig.: To cover, as if with tiles.

‘The muscle, sinew, and vein,Which tile this house, will come again.’;

Carpetverb

form a carpet-like cover (over)

Tilenoun

A plate, or thin piece, of baked clay, used for covering the roofs of buildings, for floors, for drains, and often for ornamental mantel works.

Carpetverb

cover completely, as if with a carpet;

‘flowers carpeted the meadows’;

Tilenoun

A small slab of marble or other material used for flooring.

Carpetverb

cover with a carpet;

‘carpet the floors of the house’;

Tilenoun

A small, flat piece of dried earth or earthenware, used to cover vessels in which metals are fused.

Carpet

A carpet is a textile floor covering typically consisting of an upper layer of pile attached to a backing. The pile was traditionally made from wool, but since the 20th century, synthetic fibers such as polypropylene, nylon or polyester are often used, as these fibers are less expensive than wool.

Tilenoun

A draintile.

Tilenoun

A stiff hat.

Tilenoun

a flat thin rectangular slab (as of fired clay or rubber or linoleum) used to cover surfaces

Tilenoun

a thin flat slab of fired clay used for roofing

Tileverb

cover with tiles;

‘tile the wall and the floor of the bathroom’;

Tile

Tiles are thin objects, usually square or rectangular in shape. A tile is a manufactured piece of hard-wearing material such as ceramic, stone, metal, baked clay, or even glass, generally used for covering roofs, floors, walls, or other objects such as tabletops.