arch vs tile

arch

verb
  • To cover with an arch or arches. 

  • To form into an arch shape. 

adj
  • principal; primary 

  • knowing, clever, mischievous 

noun
  • An architectural element having the shape of an arch 

  • An inverted U shape. 

  • Any place covered by an arch; an archway. 

  • Curved part of the bottom of a foot. 

  • A natural arch-shaped opening in a rock mass. 

  • An arch-shaped arrangement of trapezoidal stones, designed to redistribute downward force outward. 

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. 

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