island vs tile

island

verb
  • To isolate. 

  • To surround with water; make into an island. 

  • To set, dot (as if) with islands. 

noun
  • A contiguous area of land, smaller than a continent, totally surrounded by water. 

  • A roundabout; A traffic circle. 

  • A bench, counter, etc., that is not connected to a wall or other furniture and which can be used from any side. 

  • A superstructure on an aircraft carrier's deck. 

  • An entity surrounded by other entities that are very different from itself. 

  • A contiguous area of land, smaller than a continent, partially surrounded by water; A peninsula; A half-island. 

  • A traffic island. 

  • A phrase from which a wh-word cannot be extracted without yielding invalid grammar. 

  • An unincorporated area wholly surrounded by one or more incorporated areas. 

tile

verb
  • 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. 

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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