paint vs tile

paint

verb
  • To cover (something) with spots of colour, like paint. 

  • To direct a radar beam toward. 

  • To apply with a brush in order to treat some body part. 

  • To apply paint to. 

  • To create (an image) with paints. 

  • To apply in the manner that paint is applied. 

  • To draw an element in a graphical user interface. 

  • To depict or portray. 

  • To practise the art of painting pictures. 

  • To color one's face by way of beautifying it. 

noun
  • Graphics drawn using an input device, not scanned or generated. 

  • A set of containers or blocks of paint of different colors/colours, used for painting pictures. 

  • The free-throw lane, construed with the. 

  • A substance that is applied as a liquid or paste, and dries into a solid coating that protects or adds color/colour to an object or surface to which it has been applied. 

  • Paintballs. 

  • Tattoo work. 

  • The appearance of an object on a radar screen. 

  • Makeup. 

  • A face card (king, queen, or jack). 

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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