Tyle vs. Tile — What's the Difference?

To protect from the intrusion of the uninitiated

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.

A thin, flat or convex slab of hard material such as baked clay or plastic, laid in rows to cover walls, floors, and roofs.

A short length of pipe made of clay or concrete, used in sewers and drains.

A hollow fired clay or concrete block used for building walls.

Tiles considered as a group

(Games) A marked playing piece, as in mahjong.

To cover or provide with tiles.

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.

(computing) A rectangular graphic.

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

A stiff hat.

(transitive) To cover with tiles.

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

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

(freemasonry) To seal a lodge against intrusions from unauthorised people.

To protect from the intrusion of the uninitiated.

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

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

Fig.: To cover, as if with tiles.

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.

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

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

A draintile.

A stiff hat.

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

A thin flat slab of fired clay used for roofing

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