hem vs tile

hem

noun
  • A rim or margin of something. 

  • In sheet metal design, a rim or edge folded back on itself to create a smooth edge and to increase strength or rigidity. 

  • An utterance or sound of the voice like "hem", often indicative of hesitation or doubt, sometimes used to call attention. 

  • The border of an article of clothing doubled back and stitched together to finish the edge and prevent it from fraying. 

intj
  • Used to fill in the gap of a pause with a vocalized sound. 

verb
  • To shut in, enclose, confine; to surround something or someone in a confining way. 

  • To make the sound expressed by the word hem; to hesitate in speaking. 

  • To make a hem. 

  • To put hem on an article of clothing, to edge or put a border on something. 

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. 

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