Followed by from: to hide or shield (someone or something).
To cover, enclose, or envelop (someone or something).
To encircle or surround (someone or something).
Of a person: to be positioned or stationed around (someone or something) to attend to or protect them.
To encircle or surround (someone or something) so as to attack from all sides; to beset.
Of a situation or state of affairs, especially danger or trouble: to happen to and affect (someone or something).
A surrounding area or place (especially of an urban settlement); an environment.
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.
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.