hood vs tile

hood

verb
  • To cover something with a hood. 

adj
  • Relating to inner-city everyday life, both positive and negative aspects; especially people’s attachment to and love for their neighborhoods. 

noun
  • Person wearing a hoodie. 

  • A distinctively coloured fold of material, representing a university degree. 

  • One of the endmost planks (or, one of the ends of the planks) in a ship’s bottom at bow or stern, that fits into the rabbet. (These, when fit into the rabbet, resemble a hood (covering).) 

  • In the human hand, over the extensor digitorum, an expansion of the extensor tendon over the metacarpophalangeal joint (the extensor hood syn. dorsal hood syn. lateral hood) 

  • A cover over the engine, driving machinery or inner workings of something. 

  • An enclosure that protects something, especially from above. 

  • A metal covering that leads to a vent to suck away smoke or fumes. 

  • A covering for the head attached to a larger garment such as a jacket or cloak. 

  • The hinged cover over the engine of a motor vehicle, known as a bonnet in other countries. 

  • An expansion on the sides of the neck typical for many elapids e.g. the Egyptian cobra (Naja haje) and Indian cobra (Naja naja). 

  • Gangster, thug. 

  • A soft top of a convertible car or carriage. 

  • The osseous or cartilaginous marginal extension behind the back of many a dinosaur such as a ceratopsid and reptiles such as Chlamydosaurus kingii. 

  • Neighborhood. 

tile

verb
  • To cover with tiles. 

  • 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. 

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 hood and tile occurred in a corpus of books? (source: Google Ngram Viewer )