armor vs tile

armor

verb
  • To provide something with an analogous form of protection. 

  • To equip something with armor or a protective coating or hardening. 

noun
  • A protective layer over a body, vehicle, or other object intended to deflect or diffuse damaging forces. 

  • Metal plate, protecting a ship, military vehicle, or aircraft. 

  • A tank, or other heavy mobile assault vehicle. 

  • A military formation consisting primarily of tanks or other armoured fighting vehicles, collectively. 

  • A natural form of this kind of protection on an animal's body. 

  • The naturally occurring surface of pebbles, rocks or boulders that line the bed of a waterway or beach and provide protection against erosion. 

tile

verb
  • To protect from the intrusion of the uninitiated. 

  • To seal a lodge against intrusions from unauthorised people. 

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

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

  • To cover with tiles. 

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

  • 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. 

  • A rectangular graphic. 

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