hold up vs tile

hold up

verb
  • To impede; detain. 

  • To wait or delay. 

  • To support or lift. 

  • To fulfil or complete one's part of an agreement. 

  • To rob at gunpoint. 

  • (Of an artistic work) To continue to be seen as good, to avoid seeming dated. 

  • To withstand; to stand up to; to survive. 

  • To keep up; not to fall behind; not to lose ground. 

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. 

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