lace vs tile

lace

verb
  • To adorn with narrow strips or braids of some decorative material. 

  • To beat; to lash; to make stripes on. 

  • To interweave items. 

  • To interweave the spokes of a bicycle wheel. 

  • To add alcohol, poison, a drug or anything else potentially harmful to (food or drink). 

  • To fasten (something) with laces. 

noun
  • A light fabric containing patterns of holes, usually built up from a single thread. ᵂᵖ 

  • A cord or ribbon passed through eyelets in a shoe or garment, pulled tight and tied to fasten the shoe or garment firmly. ᵂᵖ 

  • A snare or gin, especially one made of interwoven cords; a net. 

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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