deuce vs tile

deuce

noun
  • A curveball. 

  • A hand gesture consisting of a raised index and middle fingers, a peace sign. 

  • A two-year prison sentence. 

  • A cast of dice totalling two. 

  • A '32 Ford. 

  • A card with two pips, one of four in a standard deck of playing cards. 

  • 2-barrel (twin choke) carburetors (in the phrase 3 deuces: an arrangement on a common intake manifold). 

  • A tied game where either player can win by scoring two consecutive points. 

  • A table seating two diners. 

  • The Devil, used in exclamations of confusion or anger. 

  • A piece of excrement. 

  • A side of a die with two spots. 

tile

noun
  • A rectangular graphic. 

  • 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. 

verb
  • 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. 

  • To cover with tiles. 

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