concrete vs tile

concrete

verb
  • To cover with or encase in concrete (building material). 

  • To solidify: to change from being abstract to being concrete (actual, real). 

noun
  • An extract of herbal materials that has a semi-solid consistency, especially when such materials are partly aromatic. 

  • Specifically, a building material created by mixing cement, water, and aggregate such as gravel and sand. 

  • Sugar boiled down from cane juice to a solid mass. 

  • A dessert of frozen custard with various toppings. 

  • A term designating both a quality and the subject in which it exists; a concrete term. 

adj
  • Made of concrete, a building material. 

  • Being or applying to actual things, not abstract qualities or categories. 

  • Real, actual, tangible. 

  • Particular, specific, rather than general. 

  • United by coalescence of separate particles, or liquid, into one mass or solid. 

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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