brood vs tile

brood

verb
  • To protect (something that is gradually maturing); to foster. 

  • (typically with about or over) To dwell upon moodily and at length, mainly alone. 

  • To be bred. 

  • To keep an egg warm to make it hatch. 

adj
  • Kept or reared for breeding. 

noun
  • Heavy waste in tin and copper ores. 

  • Parentage. 

  • The children in one family; offspring. 

  • The young of any egg-laying creature, especially if produced at the same time. 

  • The eggs and larvae of social insects such as bees, ants and some wasps, especially when gathered together in special brood chambers or combs within the colony. 

  • The young of certain animals, especially a group of young birds or fowl hatched at one time by the same mother. 

  • That which is bred or produced; breed; species. 

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. 

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