garnish vs tile

garnish

verb
  • To ornament with something placed around it. 

  • To warn by garnishment; to give notice to. 

  • To decorate with ornaments; to adorn; to embellish. 

  • To have (money) set aside by court order (particularly for the payment of alleged debts); to garnishee. 

noun
  • Cash. 

  • A fee; specifically, in English jails, formerly an unauthorized fee demanded from a newcomer by the older prisoners. 

  • Something added for embellishment. 

  • Clothes; garments, especially when showy or decorative. 

  • A set of dishes, often pewter, containing a dozen pieces of several types. 

  • Pewter vessels in general. 

  • Something set round or upon a dish as an embellishment. 

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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