feature vs tile

feature

noun
  • Characteristic forms or shapes of parts. For example, a hole, boss, slot, cut, chamfer, or fillet. 

  • An individual measurable property or characteristic of a phenomenon being observed; the input of a model. 

  • A beneficial capability of a piece of software. 

  • Any of the physical constituents of the face (eyes, nose, etc.). 

  • The act of being featured in a piece of music. 

  • A long, prominent article or item in the media, or the department that creates them; frequently used technically to distinguish content from news. 

  • Something discerned from physical evidence that helps define, identify, characterize, and interpret an archeological site. 

  • An important or main item. 

  • The elements into which linguistic units can be broken down. 

  • The cast or structure of anything, or of any part of a thing, as of a landscape, a picture, a treaty, or an essay; any marked peculiarity or characteristic. 

verb
  • To appear, to make an appearance. 

  • To ascribe the greatest importance to something within a certain context. 

  • To star, to contain. 

tile

noun
  • 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. 

  • Any of various flat cuboid playing pieces used in certain games, such as dominoes, Scrabble, or mahjong. 

  • A rectangular graphic. 

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. 

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