decorate vs tile

decorate

verb
  • To furnish with decorations. 

  • To extend a method, etc. by attaching some further code item. 

  • To honor by providing a medal, ribbon, or other adornment. 

  • To decorate an interior space, as a house, room, or office. 

  • To improve the appearance of an interior of, as a house, room, or office. 

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. 

How often have the words decorate and tile occurred in a corpus of books? (source: Google Ngram Viewer )