mortar vs tile

mortar

verb
  • To use mortar or plaster to join two things together. 

  • To attack (someone or something) using a mortar (weapon). 

  • To pound in a mortar. 

  • To fire a mortar (weapon). 

noun
  • A mixture of lime or cement, sand and water used for bonding building blocks. 

  • A muzzle-loading, indirect fire weapon with a tube length of 10 to 20 calibers and designed to lob shells at very steep trajectories. 

  • A hollow vessel used to pound, crush, rub, grind or mix ingredients with a pestle. 

  • In paper milling, a trough in which material is hammered. 

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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