picture vs tile

picture

noun
  • A photograph. 

  • A painting. 

  • Situation. 

  • ("the pictures") Cinema (as a form of entertainment). 

  • A paragon, a perfect example or specimen (of a category). 

  • A representation of anything (as a person, a landscape, a building) upon canvas, paper, or other surface, by drawing, painting, printing, photography, etc. 

  • The art of painting; representation by painting. 

  • An image; a representation as in the imagination. 

  • A figure; a model. 

  • A sample of an illegal drug. 

  • A format string in the COBOL programming language. 

  • An attractive sight. 

verb
  • To depict or describe vividly. 

  • To represent in or with a picture. 

  • To imagine or envision. 

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 picture and tile occurred in a corpus of books? (source: Google Ngram Viewer )