closet vs tile

closet

verb
  • To shut up in, or as in, a closet for concealment or confinement. 

  • To shut away for private discussion. 

  • To put into a private place for a secret interview or interrogation. 

noun
  • A small room within a house used to store clothing, food, or other household supplies. 

  • A secret or hiding place, (particularly) the hiding place in English idioms such as in the closet and skeleton in the closet. 

  • One intended for storing clothes or bedclothes. 

  • A state or condition of secrecy, privacy, or obscurity. 

  • An ordinary similar to a bar but half as broad. 

  • The closet can be a scary place for a gay teenager. 

adj
  • closeted, secret (especially with reference to gay people who are in the closet) 

  • Denoting anything kept a secret or private. 

tile

verb
  • To seal a lodge against intrusions from unauthorised people. 

  • To protect from the intrusion of the uninitiated. 

  • 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. 

How often have the words closet and tile occurred in a corpus of books? (source: Google Ngram Viewer )