cobble vs tile

cobble

verb
  • To use cobblestones to pave a road, walkway, etc. 

  • To assemble in an improvised way. 

  • To make shoes (what a cobbler does). 

noun
  • A particle from 64 to 256 mm in diameter, following the Wentworth scale. 

  • A piece of steel that becomes malformed during its manufacture or rolling. 

  • A cobblestone. 

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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