allow vs tile

allow

verb
  • To not bar or obstruct. 

  • To render physically possible. 

  • To grant, give, admit, accord, afford, or yield; to let one have. 

  • To acknowledge; to accept as true; to concede; to accede to an opinion. 

  • To grant license to; to permit; to consent to. 

  • To grant (something) as a deduction or an addition; especially to abate or deduct. 

  • To take into account by making an allowance. 

  • To decide (a request) in favour of the party who raised it; to grant victory to a party regarding (a request). 

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