quarry vs tile

quarry

noun
  • A diamond-shaped tile or pane, often of glass or stone. 

  • A site for mining stone, limestone, or slate. 

  • An animal, often a bird or mammal, which is hunted. 

  • An object of search or pursuit. 

verb
  • To secure prey; to prey, as a vulture or harpy. 

  • To obtain (or mine) stone by extraction from a quarry. 

  • To extract or slowly obtain by long, tedious searching. 

tile

noun
  • 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. 

  • Any of various flat cuboid playing pieces used in certain games, such as dominoes, Scrabble, or mahjong. 

  • A rectangular graphic. 

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