roof vs tessellate

roof

verb
  • To cover or furnish with a roof. 

  • To traverse buildings by walking or climbing across their roofs. 

  • To put into prison, to bird. 

  • To shelter as if under a roof. 

noun
  • The external covering at the top of a building. 

  • The top external level of a building. 

  • The upper part of a cavity. 

  • An overhanging rock wall. 

  • The surface or bed of rock immediately overlying a bed of coal or a flat vein. 

tessellate

verb
  • To cover with tiles or stones, as a mosaic; to tile. 

  • To completely fill (an area) when multiple copies of one or more two-dimensional shapes are placed edge to edge. 

  • Of a two-dimensional shape, such that multiple copies of itself placed edge to edge cover an area leaving no space between the shapes. 

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